The Big Picture Whether you love or hate them, superhero movies are here to stay. The industry made popular by studios like DC and Marvel has long been driving audiences to cinemas and raking in the millions at the global box office. Even with legendary directors like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola slamming these franchise film series, it comes down to what the people want and — at the end of the day — they want gargantuan features like Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
“Yeah, it’s incredibly timely. I think it will hit a nerve … It’s a satire about the superhero movie industry, and I was happy to play not the alter ego of Sam Mendes, but playing a European director who wants to do art but then ends up being in a franchise that is catastrophic because he cannot do anything he wants to do, and has to eat a lot of shit. And that was so much fun. And especially the people at MCU have a lot of sense of humor .
Daniel Brühl Is Thrilled He Was Hired Despite His German Heritage Both during his chat with Weintraub and via an interview with Collider’s Lead News Editor Maggie Lovitt at the tail end of last year, Brühl was sure to praise Mendes for hiring him even though the actor views Germans as a people severely lacking in the comedy department.