Christopher Nolan Disses Every Marvel Movie With One Cutting Remark
<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Disney's Marvel Studios has dominated box offices in recent years with a series of fun, interconnected superhero movies. </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Warner Bros.' DC Comic movies, led by auteur director Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight Trilogy," have been darker and more critically acclaimed, if less prolific (so far).</span>
<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Nolan's dismissive opinion of Marvel movies was indirectly revealed<span> by Zack Snyder, director of Warner's "</span>Man of Steel,<span>" </span></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">in an in-depth profile by </span>The Guardian's Tom Shone.<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">
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<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Snyder says he consulted closely with Nolan on that project and asked for the director's opinion when the studio asked him to include a comic post-credit sequence in the style that Marvel's movies are known for.</span>
Nolan replied: "A real movie wouldn't do that."
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Nolan's "Interstellar" comes out this week. Our Kirsten Acuna calls it "an ambitiously beautiful and wacky adventure into space."
Read more from Shone's excellent article on Nolan at The Guardian »
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