In all honesty, I would prefer somebody like Tarsem Singh. This movie needs to be epic, not some character driven drama. Get a director with a bold visual style and a sense of adventure.
Damn, that's a great suggestion. Given that
Immortals got decent reviews, and even the people who didn't like the movie acknowledged it was visually stunning, with every frame like an oil painting, I would love to see what Tarsem could do with
Thor. Since Thor will likely be exploring other realms and worlds in the sequel, it would be great to get somebody with that kind of cinematic vision who's worked on projects involving mythological characters before. Unless they can get Branagh back, I'm sold.
I think they should've just brought Branagh back anyway I think. It's a lot to ask to have a female director come in and carry on work someone else started. It's not really "her" vision.
Not trying to play Political Correctness Cop here, but why add the qualifier "
female director"? As opposed to just, "it's a lot to ask to have a director come in and carry on work someone else started." Do you believe female directors are less capable of directing action films in general?
I think there's a few reasons why Cap's selling more DVDs and BDs...I don't think Johnston is one of them.
Oh, I very much disagree. Sure, Johnston's got friends in high places, but
Cap was a much better film than it otherwise would have been precisely because he was directing. Marvel really made the perfect choice. Given his previous experience with period pieces, not to mention his pedigree working on classic sci-fi/action adventures and neo-serials like
Star Wars and
Raiders of the Lost Ark, you couldn't have picked a better guy to bring to life a Captain America origin story set in World War II. This really sank in for me the last time I watched
The First Avenger; I don't think the movie would have been half as good if someone else was sitting in the director's chair.
But I think there are other factors explaining Cap's superior DVD and Blu-Ray sales, chief among them the fact that the movie's box office take in the summer was hampered by coming right off the heels of the
Harry Potter juggernaut, a billion dollar hit and the year's most successful blockbuster. At the same time, the general audience was probably experiencing superhero burnout by this point, with
Thor,
X-Men: First Class and
Green Lantern having already come and gone. A lot of people probably just decided they could wait for the DVD, and Marvel is now seeing the fruits of that decision.