Django Unchained director, Quentin Tarantino, revealed he has no interest in directing a film for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He made this revelation in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times during a promotional tour for his new book Cinema Speculation.
Tarantino, who has directed several iconic films over the years such as Pulp fiction, Kill Bill, and Inglourious Basterds, declared that he's not a big fan of superhero movies. In his words, "You have to be a hired hand to do those things. I'm not a hired hand. I'm not looking for a job."
The Pulp Fiction director also gave his opinions on the box office dominance of superhero movies. He stated that many filmmakers look forward to when superhero movies will lose their dominance in a much similar way to how "60s anti-establishment auteurs rejoiced when studio musical adaptations fell out of favor." However, he admitted that the genre is not close to losing its dominance at the moment.
Tarantino is not the first auteur to criticize Marvel Studios and its enormous franchise. Martin Scorsese, another legendary filmmaker, dismissed the MCU in 2019. The Taxi Driver director described MCU movies as theme parks due to their tendency to cater to spectacle and opined that they are not cinema. Other highly rated filmmakers who have criticized the MCU are Francis Ford Coppola, Ridley Scott, and Bong-Joon Ho, who are well known for The Godfather, Gladiator, and Parasite respectively.
