From what I remember reading he also had to pass on several movies while waiting for Blade. He’s got every right to call Marvel & Kevin Feige out for this. And now with Wonder Man?! Very bad look on their part
Over the past few years, a small but extremely vocal part of the MCU fanbase wouldn't stop yelling about the "M-She-U".
Now, there are only five women in Doomsday, no female-led projects on the state, and most of the female characters they set up are in limbo. It's depressing.
If Kevin or the Russos ever cared about continuity, she'd be in the movie. Not just because she's with the X-Men but because her presence in that universe should be causing an incursion..
In 2000, Rebecca Romijn's call time was midnight so cameras could roll at 9am. Becoming Mystique took 9 hours, around 100 individual silicone prosthetics covering 60% of her body, and hand-painted blue over the rest. Removal took another 2 hours. That's 11 hours of makeup wrapped around every shooting day.
The first film's contact lenses left her nearly blind, so she had to fight choreographed battles she couldn't actually see. They moved the yellow eyes to post-production for X2. The paint transferred to everything she touched. The crew always knew when she'd used the bathroom because the toilet seat turned blue.
Over three films the team compressed the process from 9 hours to 6. Then Jennifer Lawrence inherited the role, developed skin reactions to the paint, and the studio cut it to 3 hours with a partial bodysuit. Each generation of Mystique traded a little of the look for a lot of the labor.
Which explains the reaction to today's reveal. The version fans keep holding up as the definitive Mystique is the one that was too brutal to keep producing. The 2006 look wasn't a design choice anyone abandoned for creative reasons. It was an 11-hour daily industrial process that only existed because one actress agreed to live inside it.
Romijn put it best herself: the makeup was the job. "The acting was free."
AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY - the final full film I had the honor of leading as Director of Visual Development at Marvel Studios.
This illustration commemorates that journey & reveals the characters & their looks for the first time.
#AvengersDoomsday
@MagicHandz I will give Gunn his props in regards to that. Just because a movie fails that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t stop seeing them. Move them to other projects as supporting characters to further their development.
Marvel did it with Hulk.
I think Melissa Barrera is a good person with good intentions who got caught in a bad situation. She's very clearly hurting. It's wrong to attack her. It's wrong to attack people who did participate in Scream 7. We're all just doing our best to navigate a morally complex world.
Marvel Studios Visual Development: 2010–2026
End of an era. I was there at the start of a team that broke the mold. 16 years, 40+ films, and 15 films led as Director of Visual Development, I couldn’t be prouder of the history we made.
My journey continues…
#Marvel#AndyPark
Disney just fired the man who designed the visual identity of the entire MCU.
16 years. $30 billion at the box office. And they replaced him with freelancers.
I’m going to put all of Andy Park’s contributions in the comments so you realize who this man actually is.
Marvel Studios Visual Development: 2010–2026
End of an era. I was there at the start of a team that broke the mold. 16 years, 40+ films, and 15 films led as Director of Visual Development, I couldn’t be prouder of the history we made.
My journey continues…
#Marvel#AndyPark