Marvel Wanted The Duplass Brothers to Direct a Movie

It flex out Marvel wanted Jay and Mark Duplass to take a movie for them . The Duplass brothers are rather prolific creative person who have created two HBO television set show ( Togetherness , Room 104 ) and write , direct and/or starred in several notable indie films over the retiring decade ( Baghead , Jeff Who Lives at place , Creep , and so on ) . They ’re also the form of outside the box option to aim a big budget superhero movie that Marvel Studios has increasingly gone with for its Marvel Cinematic Universe films in late years .

At this point , the tilt of filmmakers that passed on MCU movie is as interesting and varied as the list of those who sign up on . DirectorsFede Alvarezand Ava DuVernay are on the record as having declined offers to direct a Marvel film , whereas onetime indie film darlingsRyan Cooglerand Taika Waiti have practically become household names thanks to their MCU offering . Jon Watts andJames Gunnalso made the jump from way-out indie fare to directing megahit with nine - figure budget thanks to the MCU , and it turns out the Duplass crony once had the chance to do the same .

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During an interview withVulture , the Duplass brothers ( Mark specifically ) revealed"there was a moment where Marvel was interested in us take in on one of their properties . It would have been a $ 150 to $ 180 million budget and about three years of our lives . “The crony refrained from revealing what the film was and admitted that , as"incredible"as the chance was , they did n’t want to make that sort of loyalty to a individual big - budget movie :

Mark : To be a niggling Sundance film maker tapped by Marvel felt incredible . But the amount of stuff we could make over those three years , the relationship we could spurt with jr. film producer …

Jay : We ’d have to give that all up .

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The Duplass brothers further acknowledged the acute pressure that comes with a Marvel film , and took the metre to praise Coogler for handlingBlack Panthera well as he did :

Mark : [ Ryan Coogler ] was also carry sociopolitical weighting on his shoulders with Black Panther . Unbelievable . And my God , he ’s only 31 years old .

Jay : The job was , by the time Mark and I were making movies , we already had kid . We were changing diapers and making lunches , so we could n’t be the concubine of a studio at this stage in our aliveness .

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The Duplass brothers have puzzle out with actors fromGuardians of the Galaxy(John C. Reilly ) andAnt - Manin the past ( Judy Greer ) , butSpider - Man : Homecomingfeels like it could be the mystery Marvel film in this casing . That flick ’s coming of age comedy / dramatic play vibration accommodate the Duplass ' style nicely and would have reunite them with Marisa Tomei , who costarred in their 2008 filmCyrus . Then again , Waiti was n’t exactly an obvious choice to take on aThorfilm beforeThor : Ragnarok , so it ’s potential Marvel had something else all in brain for the Duplasses .

Moreover , at the end of the daytime , some franchises are a better fit for sure storytellers than others . DuVernay , for example , has saidshe ’s not interesting in directing aStar Warsmovieand is now develop DC’sNew Godsinstead . The Duplass brothers , on the other hand , might be the sort of filmmakers that are just honorable off play in their own sandpit rather than someone ’s else ’s . Of of course , if the Duplasses ever change their minds , there ’s nothing to block off them from sign on for a Phase 4 MCU motion-picture show , should Marvel number pink again .