Sebastian Stan Says ‘If Marvel Was Gone’ It’d Leave a ‘Big Hole,’ Tells Off MCU Haters: ‘Don’t Just S— on Something Without Offering Something Better’
By Zack Sharf Oct 8, 2024 3:43pm PT
“I’ve never been part of a company that puts so much heart and thought into anything,” Stan told the publication. “If Marvel was gone, it’d be such a big hole to try and fill up. Don’t just go out there and shit on something without offering something better.”
In an interview for a Variety cover story last month ...
“It’s become really convenient to pick on [Marvel films],” Stan said. “And that’s fine. Everyone’s got an opinion. But they’re a big part of what contributes to this business and allows us to have smaller movies as well. This is an artery traveling through the system of this entire machinery that’s Hollywood. It feeds in so many more ways than people acknowledge.”
“Sometimes I get protective of it because the intention is really fucking good,” Stan added at the time. “It’s just fucking hard to make a good movie over and over again.”
... and he hopes the character stays around long enough to meet Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom on the big screen.
“I hope I’m in a scene with him,” Stan says. “Is there any other guy that could pull that off? I don’t know, probably not. After ‘Tropic Thunder,’ is there anything that guy can’t do?”
Lol. Oddly enough we had awesome movies before the MCU, and awesome movies will still be made after it's dead and gone. I refuse to believe that the movie industry would be much different at all without all the Marvel schlock. We don't need it. What hole to fill? A bunch of garbage, bloated content that almost nobody asked for being pumped out ad infinitem? Okay?
It was a huge phenomenon, and it's now dying, and I'm sure many of the people involved are now in the denial stage of grief over the project. Sebastian here is just coming off like someone with a huge vested interest in defending the schlock, because that's what he has.
The MCU had heart at the start of it and through much of its life, but all that heart is gone now and replaced with a bunch of money grubbing producers and executives with little creative talent, or interest, or a story to tell. It's time for the next inspiring project to come along, one made out of passion. That's the only hole that needs filling.