Director Nia DaCosta says she referenced Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children when pitching The Marvels.
"One of my references when I was pitching for the film was from Advent Children. A couple of scenes from that, because it’s just amazing. Amazing movie and has really great fight scenes and has a really great ending sequence with the main character being thrown into the sky by all the other characters," DaCosta told IGN. "I actually didn’t want [The Marvels] to look like a video game, in the sense of what you think of when you think video game."
