Shadowlord X
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I don't really get the "you need an action director" idea. I mean, action is pretty easy to work out. It takes a director of great skill to get a great performance and tell a great story. The action just sort of sorts itself out usually because of the writers.
Patty seems to me to be the sort of director who really gets how to tell a story so everythings is just dandy
Actually IMHO action is pretty hard to do well. It takes skill to direct action scenes and make them engrossing, exhilarating, and keep you on the 'edge of your seat'. This is one of the reasons Avatar did well despite it's 'been there done that' plot; the action was very well done; James cameron knows how to do action.
'Action movies' are sort of scorned in Hollywood now, falsely as 'low brow', which is why there are few modern directors who can do action well.
Branagh did some good action scenes in THOR (the Jotunheim sequence stands out), probably with some help. but you can tell he's not yet the best at it. It was the same thing with Bryan Singer in the X-men movies; ok on the first one and by the time he came back for the sequel he was much better at it. If Branagh were to come back for THOR 3 I would suspect the same thing would happen.
I'm very happy to give this lady a chance and see what she can do. She is probably not going to inherently be the best at action but MARVEL STUDIOS will make sure she will have the right support to get it right.