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Is Shawn Levy the Future of Populist Cinema?
With Deadpool & Wolverine, he became the first director to also write and produce his Marvel movie. Disney hopes he’ll save Star Wars, too.
He’d agreed to preserve the geysers of arterial splatter and winking homoeroticism that anointed Deadpool 2 the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever, so long as Levy could seamlessly merge franchise IP that had lived at 20th Century Fox into the Disney fold. The two ultraviolence-prone, indestructible frenemies embark on a Midnight Run –like buddy time-cop odyssey, something of an art-imitating-life parallel considering how much Marvel has riding on Deadpool & Wolverine saving the MCU from sagging Tomatometer scores and declining audience shares. In 2017, reportedly unhappy with co-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s progress on Solo: A Star Wars Story, she fired the successful duo (behind 21 Jump Street and The Lego Movie franchise) mid-shoot and replaced them with Ron Howard.
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