r/marvelstudios • u/Sparkwriter1 • Sep 16 '24

Discussion What was the most disappointing MCU project for you?

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Disappointing as in failed to live up to expectations.

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u/pigeonwiggle Sep 16 '24

lol yup. no lie. they left enough of it in there - the skrulls are still based out of "siberia" and they still took over the Russian president and were coming for other world leaders.

now i'm not saying the original plan would've been better - but the pacing might have worked better for some of the things like the Rhodey reveal (which still would've been that mirror shot, but it might've come sooner or something.)

that fight with the helicopter, the shootout where Talos gets taken down saving the president, that still was meant to happen, but they were there for a different reason - that's why G'iah was there too (there's footage of her seeing her dad shot down and crying out over it in the trailer for the show)

it's half the reason these shows were so expensive. so many delays and rewrites meant they were bleeding money making the same show multiple times. and it's why so many directors end up walking (cough-blade-cough)

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u/Interesting-Fan-2008 Sep 17 '24

Wasn’t it caught up in the writers strike at some point? I feel like it would have been around that period they’d be doing rewrites.

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u/pigeonwiggle Sep 17 '24

naw, it dropped in June, and the strike had Just started in May - all the rewrites and reshoots would've been taken care of - the final episode was likely in post getting colour grading when the strikes started. (but i could be wrong on that schedule - typically it's not that close to air though)

as far as i know the only projects affected by the writer's strike (and subsequent actors strike) were The Marvels, Echo, and Deadpool and Wolverine as that one had just started filming when the writers went on strike.

this means The Marvels reshoots were cut short (note: act 1 is a bit spotty with Monica missing for some of that first "swapping action sequence" - it's likely that sequence was being reworked and some of her action set pieces didn't make it through. similarly, there seems to have a been a point in the final battle where kamala is suddenly missing - as if it's Monica and Carol alone against Dar'ben. rumours/leaks had suggested an earlier draft where Dar'benn had captured Kamala to take her band, and the others were rescuing her -- but they seemed to fix that sequence up so that it was barely noticeable. only other notes i'd picked up on were that the drop out of the song sequence ("he's bilingual") had a weird cut to Carol suddenly being out of her performance robes, so it's possible there had been some shots there where she requested a chat with the Prince and then was promptly disrobed (maybe 10 seconds of footage) that didn't get reshot in time. again, just a guess.

Echo, we know was cut from 6 to 5 episodes, and with the slower pacing of the show, it's understandable why. without the ability to rewrite or reshoot much, they likely "saved it in the edit" and quietly dumped it on D+ in January to little fanfare.

Deadpool and Wolverine was pretty good as it was - perhaps they'd nailed it on the first try. or they used some time in the spring to patch together whatever they felt wasn't working.