ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE Director Peter Ramsey Says Bob Iger’s Comments About THE MARVELS Are ‘Bullshit’

Last week, Disney CEO Bob Iger made a statement to the financial reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin at the DealBook Summit in New York on why the MCU movie The wonders had trouble at the box office. He said the main issues were quantity over quality at Marvel, which he had previously said would be addressed, and the lack of oversight of the film during its making.

Iger explained: “Quality needs attention. … It doesn’t happen by accident. Quantity, in our case, diluted quality.” He gave other reasons why The wonders floundered in cinemas. He said the project was filmed during the Covid pandemic and “there wasn’t a lot of supervision on set… where we have executives who really control what’s being done.”

No one else thinks a lack of executives has anything to do with why a movie might not do well at the box office, especially not Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse director Peter Ramseywho has now chimed in, describing Iger’s remarks as an “extraordinary level of bullshit.”

The director, who directed episodes of The Mandalorian AND Ahsoka for Disney, he would go on to share his belief that Iger “has to look like he has an answer.” When a fan pointed it out Thor: Love and Thunder could have done with a little more supervision on set, Ramsey argued, “How do you know it wasn’t the ‘supervision’ that caused what you didn’t like?”

Later, he would share his opinion: “Nothing happens in those movies [without] a lot of control from Feige and co. Marvel’s problems appear to run deeper than that.”

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

via: CBM