Martin Scorsese har allerede kritiseret Marvels måde at sammensætte film på, som i sig selv har skabt diskussion både internt i filmbranchen og ude blandt forbrugerne. Men de ord var nærmest bare en opvarmning til instruktør Albert Hughes' kommentar på det hele.
I den seneste udgave af Happy Sad Confused podcastet siger Hughes, der har stået bag From Hell, The Book of Eli og for nylig Continental-serien, at ingen filmmagere bør arbejde med Marvel.
Først forklarer han hvordan Marvel kontrollerer alle aspekter af processen, og hvordan det ville generere Hughes for meget:
"I've been in talks with the obvious studio about superhero movies a couple of times, but I always felt uncomfortable because I knew it was a system. And they're very nice, and I went through a long process. In fact, I broke down all their movies and put them in a spreadsheet and broke down the box office, watching the title scores, where the VFX ranks, I had to do a deep dive on them. And I got, halfway, not very close, halfway through the process, and I go, 'No, I would implode from the kind of controlled nature of that world and not being able to do what I do.' And I don't understand why a real filmmaker would want to be in that system. I understand why up-and-comers would, which they do a good job of. finding people at the right time. But I think I would implode."
Og efterfølgende sagde han så dette:
"So if you're getting hired for you, and what you do and what you bring, I've been in a situation more recently where I'm getting poked and prodded, and it's like, 'Oh, you don't really want what I do.' That was checking a box for them, and this is not going to work out. And it didn't work out; I had to quit that job. I smelled it pretty early, and I said, 'No, I'm not here for this.'"