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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Yeah, the exact opposite. There've been movies with bad scripts saved by the directors. I know people often point to Blade Runner as having some silly, nonsensical dialogue that was saved by the direction and the actors choosing to come up with their own lines instead. The famous "Tears in the Rain" speech was something the actor came up with when they realized the written speech sounded dumb as hell.
Ava DuVernay would be interested in directing a Marvel movie
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What a shitty way to cap off an article
Forever liveblogging the AvengersWell no, not every director is Ridley Scott. But bad direction is enough to wreck a movie that has an otherwise good script and good cast. Because ultimately, it's the director's decision what is done with those elements, and if they don't know how to use them to their fullest, the movie is going to suffer.
In comparison, a great director can take a bad script, find something of worth in it, and turn in a movie that's at least watchable.
In the case of the MCU, choosing the director is more important. Marvel has a rigorous in-house process for selecting scripts. Once the script is in a director's hands, though, they have significantly less control over a movie than they do in earlier stages.
Which one is coming out first, Black Panther or Captain Marvel? Because they are still in the "throwing around ideas and seeing what sticks" part of script writing for BP judging by comments by Boseman(he's reading up on his character since he doesn't have a script yet and won't get one for a while but wants to see how the comic counterpart works and acts so he has something to work with).
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Black Panther is first by about 8 months. But even that isn't coming out until November of 2017, so they still got a lot of time to figure things out. If they still have no idea what they are going to do this time next year, then I might consider getting worried. Really the only reason the role has even been cast is because he's slated to appear in Civil War.
edited 8th Feb '15 1:28:21 PM by Falrinn
On the list of movies it is pretty much on the bottom. The only movie lower is Inhumans. First comes Dr. Strange, Civil War, Got G 2, Ragnarok and Infinity War. We don't even know who will direct the latter two. So I don't expect a decision concerning Captain Marvel this year.
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At the Phase 3 announcement they claimed Captain Marvel had been in the works as long as Doctor Strange and a year or so before that I remember them claiming there was a script for a Ms. Marvel movie (this was before Carol was Captain). EDIT It was mentioned here along with a hypothetical Blade reboot
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It's probably a victim of the other new Phase 3 heroes being seen as more of a priority.
edited 8th Feb '15 3:06:58 PM by comicwriter
With Captain Marvel at least part of the reason it's being made so far into Phase 3 could be that it narratively works best in between the two parts of Infinity War.
I like the idea of Infinity War Part 1 ending with a Pyrrhic victory on the part of the Avengers. Sure they won the day, but Thanos is coming to Earth very soon and they have no means to stop him when he does. Captain Marvel, who from my understanding is basically a god at full power, becomes at least part of those means.
I guess comic companies want someone bearing their name to be powerful or highly hyped. At least, the latter is the case with Detective Comicsman.
Carol is pretty OP, yes. She's probably the best good hero from Earth much like her old friend Mar was the best good hero from the rest of the universe.
Sadly, Thanos is a bit more OP
◊ than Carol
◊ and most of
◊ the Avengers
◊.(Hulk and Cap are already down)note
edited 9th Feb '15 2:17:29 AM by LordofLore
Eh. He's flammable
◊(Magus had counters for pretty much everyone), pretty slow, can't dodge most attacks and has no way to attack beyond his normal range without support.

I get the impression those guys had absolutely no idea what they were talking about. I mean, one of them kept mentioning that he'd never even seen the movies.
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.