George Miller has some thoughts on the future of superhero movies.
At a press conference on Saturday in Cannes about his new film 3000 Years of Longing, archetypes of stories throughout history are widely discussed – his film follows an academic studying the narratives of humanity.
In one scene, at a conference discussing storytelling, we glimpse a large picture of DC Comics heroes including Superman, Batman, and The Flash. diverse Miller asked if he thought contemporary superhero content would be shared over the coming eras.
“They endured and they endured anyway. The only thing you will be sure of is that they will change, and they will turn into something else. Marvel and the DC Universe are basically remnants of Greek, Scandinavian and Roman mythology. There is a direct equivalence between all of them,” Miller said. Who are these characters?” “We are going through an era in which I think we express these stories through motion picture telling. They are echoes from the past, but have been modified to have meaning for us.”
Swinton, who plays the Academy in “3000 Years” and is a member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe itself, tapped into Miller’s response with an impassioned call to tell new kinds of stories in the superhero canon.
“The dangerous thing about the story is when you only have one story,” she said. Swinton’s assertion has become more significant “particularly in the past few months,” she said, apparently referring to Russian propaganda and the war in Ukraine.
“It’s possible when people can’t hear any other stories that things are really falling too fast and they might just shut down everything. It keeps people’s ears open, and it keeps their ears curious to hear a new perspective, even a new reality.”
She concluded by rallying members of the media to “keep it going, keep it diverse, keep it diverse, keep it contradictory, and keep it tough.”
Miller co-wrote the screenplay for “3000 Years” with Augusta Gore, adapted from “The Djinn in the Eye of the Nightingale,” a story collection from A.S. Byatt. Miller reunited several members of his “Mad Max: Fury Road” craft team for the new project, including editor Margaret Sixel, cinematographer John Seale, and composer Tom Holkenborg (aka Junkie XL).
The film is set for a theatrical release on August 31, via the MGM United Artists Releasing label.
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