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Moribunny wrote:Sure, it's also possible that she's just a money-making bonanza, like Patty Jenkins who made "Wonder Woman", which is an awful movie. But movies like that are actually more studio-commandeered - the directors don't do as much, they have a beehive of studio writers and cinematographers doing their shtick for them, and they have practically zero input on action scenes (which make up much of the movie).

An interesting point and something to keep in mind. For hired guns, franchises like Star Wars and the MCU are really more like television shows, on which guest directors are essentially "traffic cops" (in the words of prolific traffic-director Steve Buscemi) who have little room to imbue the work with personality or anything truly distinctive. While this is broadly true for Hollywood filmmaking generally, the 'Show Bible' aspect of big money franchises is something else. The firing of Edgar Wright from Ant Man and Phil Lord & Chris Miller months into production on the Han Solo movie are recent high-profile examples, with the latters' hiring for Marvel's Into the Spideyverse the exception that proves the rule: animation by its nature is less beholden to such strictures.