Denis Villeneuve (Dune) believes that Marvel films are “all formatted” and “on the same mold”

This is not going to please MCU aficionados. Denis Villeneuve, director of Blade Runner 2049 and most recently from the first chapter of Dune, responded to questions from the Première site, specializing in cinema. Asked about the apparent contradiction between big-money films and auteur films, the Canadian director initially replied that the very notion of auteur film was “Overused”. “As long as you feel a personality in a project, that it is an artistic object and that there is a will at work, it is not a question of money” Villeneuve then specifies.

Canadian director Denis Villeneuve

And then suddenly, in the wake, a little sentence that may not please the directors of Disney: “Well, if we’re talking about Marvel, the thing is, all these films are made from the same mold. Some filmmakers can bring a little color to it (James Gunn? Editor’s note), but they are all cast in the same factory. It doesn’t take anything away from the movies, but they are formatted. “

Difficult to prove Villeneuve wrong as Disney / Marvel is totally control-freak on its productions. From the choice of actors to the parameters of inclusiveness through infantilizing prudishness, never disturbing scenarios, action scenes filmed as JV cutscenes and the omnipresent marketing aspect, the MCU is mainly about its consistency and malice with which the writers have made of these films sort of long-lasting soap operas of the same Marvel series (we are still looking for consistency at DC).

The fact remains that despite its almost obviousness, Villeneuve’s words will inevitably make the fans talk. We remember the names of birds that the great Martin scorsese after he said the Marvel movies weren’t really cinema.