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‘I Think Everyone Knew This Is Probably Not Going to Be a Good Film’
A technical crew member on Captain America: Brave New World recalls chaotic reshoots, a curmudgeonly Harrison Ford, and a director out of his depth.
Those films’ dismal receptions compelled Disney CEO Bob Iger to announce Marvel would “reduce output and focus more on quality” during a quarterly earnings call last May but also underscored the franchise and superhero fatigue among the studio’s fanboy faithful that Deadpool & Wolverine ’s $1.3 billion worldwide haul this summer failed to entirely alleviate. In the dénouement of a bitterly contested presidential election but also as the opening salvo to a 2025 Marvel movie slate that carries through with Thunderbolts* and Fantastic Four: First Steps(set to release, respectively, May 2 and July 25), Brave New World now finds itself reaching theaters at a turbulent cultural moment. Moreover, this source (who has worked on several Marvel television and film projects and spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to comment publicly) described a high degree of difficulty on the reshoots and action set pieces that ran up the budget.
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