Director Who Turned Down ‘Black Widow’ Drags Marvel Movies for ‘Very Ugly’ Sound: ‘The Way Music Is Used Is Actually Horrible’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel (“Zama”) was one of several female directors courted by Marvel Studios to direct “Black Widow,” the comic book tentpole centered on Scarlett Johansson’s assassin.
Martel revealed in 2018 that she turned down the project after a meeting with Marvel in which the studio told her to focus on character and not the action scenes.
In a recent interview with The Film Stage, Martel confessed she never ended up seeing “Black Widow.” “No, no, no — I didn’t see ‘Black Widow.’ I tried to,” Martel said. “They contacted a great number of female directors.
I never would have imagined that Marvel could contact and bring together a pool of directors and I would be a part of it; I never thought that would be possible.
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