The latest Captain America production sounds kind of miserable
An anonymous crew member admits that they "knew this is probably not going to be a good film" while working on it.
Will it surprise anyone that Captain America: Brave New World was chaotic and tense behind the scenes? Probably not. Anyone paying attention probably felt a growing sense of unease from the name change to the character revamps (namely, the Israeli character going from the superhero “Sabra” to a more generic ex-Black Widow) to the character additions (Giancarlo Esposito was shoehorned in during reshoots). And much as star Anthony Mackie might claim the reshoots were no big deal and that it happens on every Marvel movie he’s been on, that’s not much of a reassurance when pretty much every Marvel project since his debut has been a case of diminishing returns.
Now Vulture has a first-person report from an anonymous Marvel veteran to say what everyone’s thinking. No, literally: “I think everyone on the crew knew this is probably not going to be a good film,” this person, who was on hand for the reshoots, claims. “My co-workers who spent more time on Brave New World than I did said, ‘Yeah, this has been a really rough production.'” This anonymous crew member identified Harrison Ford as one of the main issues of the production: “Harrison Ford was one of the crankiest performers I ever dealt with. Which was sad. I’m a fan. But he was very much a diva,” they say. The whistleblower thinks “dealing with A-list egos was the issue” for director Julius Onah, though “It was mainly just Harrison Ford.”
Most PopularThis crew member says “Some of the action sequences were not believable,” even on set, which certainly translated to the screen for The A.V. Club reviewer Jesse Hassenger, who wrote that “the various set-piece skirmishes clang around aimlessly, maybe hoping to match tones with the dialogue, which is all a pass away from even working as a first draft” in his C- review. “Entire sequences we shot won’t make it into the film, and that’s very expensive,” the whistleblower says. “At the end of the day, it was the most tense Marvel shoot I’ve ever worked on. Everyone kind of felt their buttholes tightening a little bit. It’s like, Ugh.” You can read the full account here.
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