There is no doubt that being hired to do something you’ve loved doing since your childhood would be the best job in the world. However, Black Panther producer Nate Moore says otherwise when it comes to hiring writers for Marvel, saying that fans are the last thing on his mind to write for the studio.
Speaking on The Town with Matthew Belloni podcast, Black Panther producer Nate Moore doesn’t hesitate to debunk as to why MCU fans shouldn’t write for Marvel. He always sees them as ‘red flags’ upon hiring. Read Moore’s full comment below:
“A lot of times we’re pitched writers who love Marvel. And to me, that’s always a red flag. Because I go, ‘Oh, I don’t want you to already have a pre-existing idea of what it is, because you grew up with Issue 15 and that’s what you want to recreate…’”
Moore continues to say he only wants people — whether or not they’re Marvel fans — who go hard on the material, who are able to criticize and depict the source material from a different angle, rather than just ‘recreating’ it from the comic’s panels, or as he says, he is not a fan of ‘direct, one-to-one translation to the best version of the movie.’ It is important, after all, to be able to somewhat ‘own’ the source material by taking your own spin on it to spring new content.
“I want somebody who’s hard on the material, who goes, ‘What is this? I think there’s a movie here, but maybe we should be looking at it in this way.’ And I think, again, the best example of that for me was Markus and McFeely, who weren’t comic guys coming up, but were like, ‘Wait, Captain America, this seems a bit weird. What if we kinda looked at it in this way?’ And they weren’t married to anything.”
Besides, with the Marvel Cinematic Universe continuously expanding, it is crucial for the writers to be flexible in writing new angles for their stories to fit into the timeline.
Meanwhile, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is currently in theaters.
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