Alberth Hughes, mannen bakom bland annat Menace II Society, From Hell, The Book of Eli och nu senast Continental, hymlade inte med orden under en intervju med podcasten Happy Sad Confused. Han gick hårt åt Marvel Studios och proklamerade att "ingen riktig filmskapare skulle någonsin få för sig att arbeta med dem". Under diskussionen sa han:
"I've been in talks with the obvious studio about superhero movies a couple of times, but I always felt uncomfortable because I knew it was a system. And they're very nice, and I went through a long process. In fact, I broke down all their movies and put them in a spreadsheet and broke down the box office, watching the title scores, where the VFX ranks, I had to do a deep dive on them."
Han fortsatte med att beskriva hur han valde att inte bli en del av Marvels kontrollerade arbetssätt.
"And I got, halfway, not very close, halfway through the process, and I go, 'No, I would implode from the kind of controlled nature of that world and not being able to do what I do.' And I don't understand why a real filmmaker would want to be in that system. I understand why up-and-comers would, which they do a good job of. finding people at the right time. But I think I would implode."
Hughes gick sedan in i mer detalj och sa:
"So if you're getting hired for you, and what you do and what you bring, I've been in a situation more recently where I'm getting poked and prodded, and it's like, 'Oh, you don't really want what I do.' That was checking a box for them, and this is not going to work out. And it didn't work out; I had to quit that job. I smelled it pretty early, and I said, 'No, I'm not here for this.'"
Och det har ju blivit tydligt att Marvel har ett visst arbetssätt med regler att följa, men samtidigt verkar det trots allt som att regissörerna (de flesta i varje fall) tillåts en hel del svängrum för att sätta sin egen prägel på filmerna, vilket i varje fall varit tydligt med Taika Waititis produktioner.
Vad tycker du, borde Marvel lätta på sina strikta regler för att tillåta mer kreativ frihet?
"Hulk vill ha mer frihet, rawr!"