There will be a lot of eyeballs on The Marvels when the upcoming Marvel movie opens this week, for so many different reasons. To start with, the concept of “superhero fatigue” is resting heavy on the industry, and while Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 performed extremely well at the box office, soft openings for movies like The Flash have studio execs wondering if the comic-book bubble is about to burst. We have known a lot of details about The Marvels for some time now, mainly because the movie’s release date kept getting pushed back after COVID issues and industry reshuffling. But a new charge was leveled at the movie in a piece by Variety, and The Marvels director Nia DaCosta is clearing things up.
Variety put out a recent cover story asking if Marvel Studios was in trouble, bringing up a lot of the same talking points about the MCU’s adjustments following both COVID outbreaks, the ongoing strikes plaguing the industry, and issues involving key stars such as Jonathan Majors. In the feature, it was revealed that Nia DaCosta began working on another movie while The Marvels was in post-production, insinuating that it was unusual for a filmmaker to do that, and all but implying this meant issues existed between Marvel and the director.
