Despite the fact that Marvel Studios continues to have the leading voice in the current Hollywood industry (and even more so after the announcements at San Diego Comic-Con), Kevin Feige’s company has a serious problem with its digital effects and the company’s relationships with industry workers. From Tom Holland who always says so “Boundaries are crossed at Marvel” after tweaking at the premiere of ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ to criticism for the appearance of the trailer for ‘She-Hulk: Lawyer Hulka’, passing in front of Taika Waititi and Tessa Thompson laughing at the visual effects of ‘Thor: Love and thunder ‘. But that’s all nonsense compared to the Reddit thread shared by a Marvel employee claiming it “the worst company you could work with”.
With Phase 4 just a few months away and juicy Phases 5 and 6 filled to the brim with projects, the demand for post-production work is overwhelming. As revealed by the aforementioned thread, the visual effects sector has complained about the exploitation immediately according to the tight deadlines that the Marvel Cinematic Universe must respect. On this occasion, an anonymous industry worker unveiled his bad experience working for Marvel Studios in Vulture. In the article, the artist describes the strained relationship between the special effects team and Marvel itself, to the point of declaring that there are incentives to keep the studio happy at any cost.
Should any of the CGI teams disobey or deny a Marvel request, they will have to face the consequences as it is very likely that they will not receive job opportunities in the future. When digital effects teams compete to work with Marvel, they are less likely to be hired, which leads to glaring staff shortages. The employee revealed that although ten workers are required on a special effects team, in Marvel movies that workload is only supported by two people.. As a result, overworked artists have to meet the studio’s constant demands, sometimes right up to the release date itself.
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“Sometimes, a month or two before a movie is released, Marvel asks us to change the entire third act. It has very tight delivery times. So yeah, it’s not the best situation overall. “admitted the anonymous worker. “Some of the problems I mentioned are universal to every title and every project, but you end up doing less overtime in other companies. You end up being able to persuade directors a little more. When they say, ‘Hey, I want this, you can tell him it doesn’t make sense, but with Marvel it doesn’t. Not all customers have the intimidating power of Marvel Studios.”.
The anonymous account further describes Numerous cases of colleagues crying or having anxiety attacks. He recognizes that most of the time he doesn’t work with a cinematographer and has to develop his own shots for action sequences in a film. This results in a visual style that is inconsistent with the rest of the film and battles that don’t feel real.
Source: E Cartelera
