“Everyone knew it would not be a good film”: the chaotic backstage of the last Captain America

A source that worked on the film entrusts how complicated production was, and criticizes the attitude of Harrison Ford on the set of Captain America: Brave New World.

Captain America: Brave New World has just left home that Vulture Published an article behind the scenes of filming, even more complicated than what we imagined. The American site recalls the difficulties that Marvel Cinematic Universe has faced for a few years (criticisms and the disastrous box-office ofAnt-Man-Man 3 and The Marvelspartially offset by the $ 1.3 billion reported by Deadpool & Wolverine) as well as the 22 -day reshoots of Captain America: Brave New Worlddecided after disastrous test projections. Our colleagues interviewed an anonymous source, close to production, and its testimony is severe: ” I think all the members of the team knew that it would probably not be a good film. Some action sequences were not credible. We have known a lot of frustrations on the set. »»

The source also suggests that Marvel would have been caught by the political climate (the war in Gaza, tension in the United States, the rise in Donald Trump’s polls before the election). She claims that during the first test projection, ” The public did not react », Suggesting certain spectators have been cooled by the political scope of the film. “” Maybe they didn’t want to see something political in the electoral year? Perhaps they were divided on their choice of voting? She wonders. In question, in particular, the character of General Ross (Harrison Ford), ” An allusion to Trump “, Which embodies a powerful general tilting into a form of fascism by becoming Red Hulk. A subtext that would have pushed Disney to play prudence: ” Let’s try not to annoy our fanbase more than we have done in recent years. »»

In addition to these editorial choices, filming would have been particularly trying. Harrison Ford is described as a diva. “” One of the most grumpy players with whom I have ever worked », Ensures the source, which recalls that the actor over 80 had been weakened in 2015 by an airplane accident, with the consequence of an inability to raise his left arm higher than his chest. Ford would have lived with difficulty the scenes of Motion Capturean exercise that he seemed ” hate ». “” Everyone was trying to move to make him happy “, But his attitude” made the working environment very embarrassing ».

Finally, the reshoots increased an already complicated production, and the decision to introduce the character of Giancarlo Esposito (who plays the leader of the SOCIETY SNAP) would have been decided at the last minute to build the intrigue. If Marvel is customary of reshoots, Captain America: Brave New World would have reached an unprecedented level of tension and the director Julius Onah, not really used to blockbusters of this magnitude, would have logically exceeded. “” Basically, the problem was to manage the stars egos », And especially that of Ford. “” It was the most tense Marvel shooting in which I never participated “Concludes the source. “” Everyone would squeeze their buttocks. »»

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