Speaking to Inverse, French actor Vincent Cassel (“La Haine,” “Black Swan,” and “Mesrine”), who recently completed Season 3 of “Westworld,” admits having turned down superhero movie roles in the past and why he’ll likely continue to do so in the future":
“Honestly, these are not movie movies I watch anymore,” he explained. “When they came up with the technology and the fact that suddenly Iron Man or Spider-Man could look real and not tacky in the special effects, I was interested. Then, it became normal.”
He continued, “I was a big fan of the comics at the time when I was a kid. Nowadays, I think these are movies for kids, really. And even though I still have a part of me who’s a kid, I would say no. I wouldn’t watch it.”
Something tells me that Marvel has just put Cassel on heir blacklist.
I do agree, for the most part, with Cassel. At first, Superhero movies felt vitally fresh, no thanks to the excellent CGI and top-notch storytelling, I can think of a few examples such as “Iron Man,” “Spider-Man 2,” “The Dark Knight,” but the genre just got greedier and greedier, to the point where I just see them now as marketing products rather than any kind of art.
If the movie is as rough as some in the industry seem to fear, that teaser may have been less of a marketing campaign and more of a public plea for somebody to finally take the damn thing.