{"id":313276,"date":"2025-10-18T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T11:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/313276\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T11:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T11:28:10","slug":"the-marvels-director-nia-dacosta-talks-post-production-issues-and-visiting-the-avengers-doomsday-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/313276\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MARVELS Director Nia DaCosta Talks Post-Production Issues And Visiting The AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Set"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Marvels\u00a0was released at the tail end of 2023’s Hollywood strikes, and despite scoring mostly positive reviews (it sits at a “Fresh”\u00a062% on Rotten Tomatoes), the\u00a0Captain Marvel\u00a0sequel only managed to earn $206.1 million worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That makes it one of Marvel Studios’ biggest box office flops, and fans continue to debate what went wrong. After all, how could a follow-up to a $1 billion blockbuster and critically acclaimed shows like\u00a0WandaVision\u00a0and\u00a0Ms. Marvel\u00a0fall so short of expectations? Whatever the case may be, it hasn’t hurt filmmaker Nia DaCosta’s career.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She’s since helmed 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple and is currently doing the rounds to promote Hedda, a new Prime Video drama starring Thor: Love and Thunder’s Tessa Thompson, who made a cameo appearance in The Marvels.<\/p>\n

Talking to The Guardian<\/a>, DaCosta appeared to reference her time in the MCU by discussing the “shocking way people have talked to me in my position as a director”<\/strong> after Candyman. She reportedly left The Marvels during post-production to start work on Hedda, and indicated that she subsequently received “anonymous briefings” that painted her in a negative light.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“They knew the entire time that I had an obligation,”<\/strong> DaCosta shared,\u00a0“a greenlit movie with people who were waiting for me.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite that, there don’t appear to be any hard feelings between the director and Marvel Studios. “There\u2019s no ire in any of my energy. I was on the Avengers set a couple weeks ago because I still have relationships with these people.” <\/strong>Referencing Kevin Feige, she added, “He wrote me a letter for my UK visa.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

DaCosta has previously said that there came a point when she realised The Marvels “[wasn’t] going to be the movie that I pitched or even the first version of the movie that I shot,” <\/strong>and later suggested that she was working without a “solid script.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marvel Studios is renowned for using reshoots to tinker with and improve its movies. However, in recent years, those appear to have largely done the opposite,\u00a0with Captain America: Brave New World\u00a0the most recent example.\u00a0The Marvels\u00a0ultimately lost the studio around $237 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why was DaCosta on the set of Avengers: Doomsday? Well, chances are she was just visiting. However, we’d say it’s also possible that she was there to see the follow-up to The Marvels’ post-credits scene being shot, perhaps offering insights similar to\u00a0Jake Schreier and Matt Shakman when the Russos filmed stingers for Thunderbolts* and The Fantastic Four: First Steps.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Let us know your thoughts on DaCosta’s comments in the usual place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Marvels\u00a0was released at the tail end of 2023’s Hollywood strikes, and despite scoring mostly positive reviews (it…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":313277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[37189,171,53,7705,157847,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-313276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-avengers-doomsday","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-nia-dacosta","12":"tag-the-marvels","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115394937237491578","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313276","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=313276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}