ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE Director Peter Ramsey Says Bob Iger's Comments About THE MARVELS Is "Bullshit"

Last week, Disney CEO Bob Iger made a statement to financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin at the DealBook Summit in New York about the why the MCU film The Marvels had trouble at the box office. He said the main issues were quantity over quality at Marvel, which he previously said is being addressed, and the lack of oversight the film received while it was being made.

Iger explained, "Quality needs attention. ... It doesn't happen by accident. Quantity, in our case, diluted quality." He pointed to other reasons why The Marvels floundered in theaters. He said the project was shot during the Covid pandemic, and "there wasn't as much supervision on the set ... where we have executives there really looking over what's being done."

No one else thinks the lack of executives has anything to do with why a film might not do well at the box office, especially not Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse director Peter Ramsey, who has now weighed in to describe Iger's remarks as an "astounding level of bullsh*t." 

The filmmaker, who has helmed episodes of The Mandalorian and Ahsoka for Disney, would go on to share his belief that Iger "has to sound like he's got an answer." When one fan pointed out that Thor: Love and Thunder could have done with a little more supervision on set, Ramsey argued, "How do you know that it wasn’t 'supervision' that caused what you don’t like about it?"

Later, he'd share his opinion that, "Nothing happens on those movies [without] lots of scrutiny from Feige and co. Marvel’s issues seem to go deeper than that."

I don’t know how anyone could know the exact reason why a movie isn’t successful, especially one they aren’t involved with. It’s probably many reasons, but it’s almost certainly not that there aren’t enough cooks in the proverbial kitchen.

via: CBM