Tim Blake Nelson has hailed the Marvel Cinematic Universe for “protecting cinema alive.”
The 60-year-old actor will make his return as Samuel Sterns within the upcoming film Captain America: Courageous New World and hit again at critics equivalent to Martin Scorsese – who branded the superhero blockbusters as “theme parks” and “not cinema.”
Chatting with TheWrap at San Diego Comedian-Con, Nelson mentioned: “Marvel has develop into this phenomenon that is unprecedented within the historical past of cinema.”
“These scores of flicks with characters shifting out and in of each other’s storylines, coming collectively, going again aside, combating in opposition to each other in a single universe; it is by no means occurred earlier than in films … When folks assault these films as, ‘Nicely, it is not actual cinema’ or, ‘It’s the loss of life of cinema,’ I truly suppose it’s protecting cinema alive, and I actually imply that.”
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The forthcoming flick marks Nelson’s first MCU look since he featured in 2008’s The Unbelievable Hulk and he confessed that he had “given up” on making a return to superhero tentpoles.
The Minority Report star mentioned: “I’ve to say that I had given up on coming again as properly, and never with out a large quantity of despair. However I’m glad it took this lengthy as a result of the character I (play) truly, I feel calls for my very own life experiences over the previous 18 years. As a result of there’s an actual depth and rage and pathos to this man, and I wanted 18 extra years of life expertise to try to pull that off.”
Nelson added that he reprised the half on the premise that his alter ego would rework into the villainous Chief.
He advised Leisure Weekly: “I had just one request, which was that we realise the character virtually they usually had been prepared to try this.
“After all, in the event that they’d mentioned no, I nonetheless would have finished it. However I needed to essentially have the look and the burden of the character and look within the mirror and see the deformation of the character and have the opposite actors expertise that.”
Captain America: Courageous New World is scheduled to open in theaters on February 14, 2025.
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