{"id":180873,"date":"2025-08-27T22:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/180873\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T22:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:46:10","slug":"marvel-movie-had-unlimited-money-and-thats-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/180873\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Movie Had Unlimited Money and That’s Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tChlo\u00e9 Zhao recently told Vanity Fair <\/a>there weren\u2019t a lot of \u201climitations\u201d when she was directing her Marvel movie \u201cEternals<\/a>,\u201d which she called a \u201cdangerous\u201d thing. While the comic book tentpole managed to gross $402 million worldwide in the still pandemic-impacted box office of 2021, it is widely considered among Marvel fans to be one of the worst MCU movies. With a 47% score on\u00a0Rotten Tomatoes,\u00a0it\u2019s also one of the worst reviewed.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith fall festival season kicking off, Zhao is finally returning with a new movie titled \u201cHamnet.\u201d The Focus Features release is her first since \u201cEternals,\u201d which opened in theaters after she won best picture and best director at the Oscars for \u201cNomadland.\u201d The film stars Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley as William and Agnes Shakespeare as they grieve the lost of their 11-year-old son, Hamnet.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c\u2019Eternals\u2019\u00a0prepared me for\u00a0\u2018Hamnet\u2019\u00a0because it\u2019s world-building,\u201d Zhao told the publication. \u201cBefore that, I had only done films that existed in the real world. I also learned what to do and not to do\u2014what\u2019s realistic and what isn\u2019t. \u2018Eternals\u2019\u00a0had, like, an unlimited amount of money and resources. And here we have one street corner that we can afford, to [stand in for] Stratford\u2026.\u00a0\u2018Eternals\u2019\u00a0didn\u2019t have a lot of limitations, and that is actually quite dangerous. Because we only have that street corner [in\u00a0\u2018Hamnet\u2019], suddenly everything has meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEternals\u201d was originally supposed to open in November 2020, but the pandemic delayed the project\u2019s release by an entire year. In its original November 2020 slot, \u201cEternals\u201d would\u2019ve more closely followed the opening of \u201cAvengers: Endgame.\u201d Zhao previously told Empire magazine<\/a> that the release day combined with the pandemic set \u201cEternals\u201d up for divisiveness among critics and Marvel fans.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c\u2018Eternals\u2019 was planned to be released soon after \u2018Endgame,\u2019 and not at a time when everyone is having an existential crisis,\u201d Zhao said. \u201cThe film itself is about existential crisis, both for humanity and God. So I think we definitely felt [the divisiveness] was coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tZhao also said the fusion of Marvel\u2019s in-house style and her own indie film sensibilities was another source of the movie\u2019s polarization. Fans of Zhao\u2019s \u201cThe Rider\u201d and \u201cNomadland\u201d were disappointed to see more traditional Marvel elements in the film, while not all Marvel fans were on board with Zhao shaking up some of the visual language of the MCU.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn this case, we truly stepped out of the box that I think the world put us in, and met in the middle because of our shared interests,\u201d Zhao said. \u201cAnd by truly doing that, it made a lot of people uncomfortable on both sides. But there are also people who are more comfortable with the order of their world [being] disturbed. And then they look at our love-child and go, \u2018Oh! This touches different sides of me!\u2019 I like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe continued,\u00a0\u201cI completely understand the divisiveness coming from critics and the fans. Because when you take this to extremes that are seen as opposition \u2014 the world I come from and the world of Marvel, that has been divided in a way that\u2019s so unfair and unfortunate \u2014 and to merge the way we did, I actually see the reaction as a testament to how much we had merged with each other; how uncomfortable that might make people feel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEternals\u201d featured a sprawling ensemble cast that included Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Brian Tyree Henry, Barry Keoghan, Salma Hayek and Angelina Jolie, among others. All of these actors were making their Marvel Cinematic Universe debuts with the expectation that they could potentially reprise their roles in future Marvel properties. The film\u2019s poor reception effectively killed those plans. Nanjiani recently revealed on the \u201cWorking It Out\u201d podcast<\/a> that he signed on to star in six Marvel projects but only did \u201cEternals.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was like, \u2018Oh, this is going to be my job for the next 10 years,\u2019\u201d Nanjiani said. \u201cI signed on for six movies. I signed on for a video game. I signed on for a theme park ride. They make you sign up for all this stuff. And you\u2019re like, \u2018This is the next 10 years of my life, so I\u2019ll be doing Marvel movies every year and, in between, I\u2019ll do my own little things, whatever I want to do.\u2019 And then none of that happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHamnet\u201d is set to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival before opening in theaters Nov. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chlo\u00e9 Zhao recently told Vanity Fair there weren\u2019t a lot of \u201climitations\u201d when she was directing her Marvel…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":180874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[102090,171,98595,10953,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-180873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-chloe-zhao","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-eternals","11":"tag-marvel-studios","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115103162951547418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}