Alan Taylor Recalls "Wrenching" Experience Marking THOR: THE DARK WORLD For Marvel
Terminator Genisys director Alan Taylor didn't seem particularly happy with Thor: The Dark World when he was promoting the sequel in 2013, and he talks here about what it was like to see Marvel transform his movie into something totally different during post-production...
There are a number of filmmakers who have made it clear they won't work with Marvel again, but also plenty of others who have and will. It sounds like Game of Thrones vet Alan Taylor falls into the former camp based on recent comments in an interview with Uproxx to promote Terminator Genisys. "They were very different," he said when asked to compare his experience working on this movie to working with Marvel on Thor: The Dark World (which has a respectable 65% on RT). "I’ve done two and I’ve learned that you don’t make a $170 million movie with someone else’s money and not have to collaborate a lot. The Marvel experience was particularly wrenching because I was sort of given absolute freedom while we were shooting, and then in post it turned into a different movie. So, that is something I hope never to repeat and don’t wish upon anybody else."
We'll probably never know how much Thor: The Dark World was changed by Marvel, but it's no doubt thanks to them that he was able to helm a movie as big as Terminator Genisys. Who does he have to blame for that movie's tepid reviews? Not the studio, as it turns out that they were a lot more collaborative than Marvel. "This was not like that. The story we started telling is essentially the story we finished and are bringing out into the world. But there was a lot of collaboration, as there is going to be on something this big." What do you think about these comments?
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