This weekend, Hugh Jackman ’s Wolverine is back again for the release of Deadpool and Wolverine . The superhero movie adds Ryan Reynolds’ lovable antihero into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, along with the X-Men fan-favorite after Jackman gave a final salute (or so with thought) with 2017’s Logan . As critics name Deadpool and Wolverine the “ultimate Deadpool movie,” Logan ’s director James Mangold has shared his thoughts on cinematic universes.
Now James Mangold is getting ready to make a very different movie: the Bob Dylan biopic with Timothée Chalamet . As the first A Complete Unknown trailer came out on Wednesday, Mangold was asked if he’d create his own “cinematic universe” by bringing back Joaquin Phoenix’s Johnny Cash from Walk The Line . Here’s how he responded to Rolling Stone : I don’t do multiverses.
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It’s weird that I’ve even worked in the world of IP entertainment because I don’t like multi-movie universe-building. I think it’s the enemy of storytelling. The death of storytelling.
It’s more interesting to people the way the Legos connect than the way the story works in front of us. While Mangold wasn’t taking directly about the MCU, or any other multiverse specifically for that matter, his response definitely speaks to his own take on the popular tool studios have been using as of late. The director was certainly part of a Marvel movie with Logan , but in a way that speaks to this perspective.
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