Brian Cox has suggested Marvel is to blame for the current state of cinema.
Although the actor has been part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, having played Colonel William Stryker in X2: X-Men United, he has said that cinema’s apparent decline can be put down to films putting box office success above originality.
Speaking at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Saturday (17 August), Cox said: “What’s happened is that television is doing what cinema used to do. I think cinema is in a very bad way.
“I think it’s lost its place because of, partly, the grandiose element between Marvel, DC and all of that. And I think it’s beginning to implode, actually. You’re kind of losing the plot.”
Cox pointed to the recent Marvel blockbuster Deadpool and Wolverine as an example of a film that is “making a lot of money” and “that’ll make everybody happy, but in terms of the work, it becomes diluted afterwards”.
Cox added: “You’re getting the same old… I mean, I’ve done those kind of [projects]”, even admitting that it was his character who persuades Logan to become Wolverine.
“Deadpool meets the guy,” he said. “Wolverine, who I created, but I’ve forgotten. Actually. When those films are on, there’s always a bit of me [as Stryker] and they never pay me any money.”
The actor continued: “So it’s just become a party time for certain actors to do this stuff. When you know that Hugh Jackman can do a bit more, Ryan Reynolds… but it’s because they go down that road and it’s box office. They make a lot of money. You can’t knock it.”
In a three-star review of Deadpool & Wolverine, NME wrote: “Where does the MCU go from here? With an endless loop of multiverse MacGuffins to fall back on, it can probably keep going as if none of this has happened. But if the superhero era really is finally starting to wind down, Deadpool & Wolverine will always be remembered as the film that started dancing on the grave first – to a Madonna song…”
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