Creativity: assemble.
Mark Ruffalo is slamming the repetitiveness of “Star Wars” while defending the similarly sprawling sequels and spinoffs of Marvel characters and storylines, also owned by Disney.
The 54-year-old three-time Oscar nominee and “Avengers” star, whose decade-long run as The Hulk/Bruce Banner is now creeping into small screen territory via Disney+’s “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,” feels the two behemoth franchises are hardly one in the same.
“I understand that these things run their course and then something else comes along. But the thing Marvel has done well is that, inside the MCU, just as they do with comic books, they let a director or an actor sort of recreate each piece to their own style, their likeness,” Ruffalo told Metro U.K., when asked whether there’s too much Marvel content — something he said he doesn’t fret over.
The superhero-centric property, said Ruffalo, typically allows creatives to “bring that to the material.
“If you watch a Star Wars,” he continued. “You’re pretty much going to get the same version of Star Wars each time.”
While Ruffalo contended that the George Lucas creation has spawned incarnations with some variations in comedic relief or visual effects, “You’re always, really, in that same kind of world.
“But with Marvel you can have a whole different feeling even within the Marvel Universe,” he concluded.
While the past decade has seen an abundance of both Marvel and “Star Wars” content — in no small part because of the Disney-owned streamer, on which those movies and their television spin-offs live — the former has of late received a lot of criticism for a decline in quality.
“Why Marvel’s Content Explosion Has Watered Down the Quality,” read a Collider headline last month, amid the “Thor: Love and Thunder” release.
“Too Many Projects Are Ruining Marvel’s Storytelling,” read one from Game Rant just weeks later.
“Does Marvel Have a Quality Problem?” The Ringer asked in a mid-May headline.
This year alone, as part of its fourth phase, Marvel plans to have welcomed a total of three highly anticipated cinematic additions — three sequels, to “Doctor Strange,” “Thor,” and “Black Panther” as well as the widely panned “Morbius” — to its massive library. That’s in addition to TV shows “Moon Knight,” “Ms. Marvel,” “She-Hulk,” the sophomore season of “What If…?” A holiday special centered around “The Guardians of the Galaxy” is also slated for later this year.
