Jon Watts Shares a related truth: Sometimes board members also become burnt out. The filmmaker, who alone revived the “Spider-Man” IP with its Tom Holland-led features, said under a new Masterclass on the average terran Film Festival (via Thr) that he left colleague MCU project ”Fantastic Four“Because he was just” out of gasoline. “
Watts was announced announced as the director of a new “Fantastic Four” movie 2020. He divorced the project 2022; Marvel Studio’s President Kevin Feige said at that time that the studio was “supportive for his reasons to go away.”
Now Watts explains why he lost by directing “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” (Matt Shakman helps the feature, which will be released in theaters on July 25). “I was out of gasoline,” Watts said. “The covid layer on top of making a gigantic movie warehouse, I knew I didn’t have what it would have taken to make that movie good. I was just out of steam, so I just had to take some time to recover.”
He added, “Everyone at Marvel understood completely. They had also gone through it with me, so they knew how hard and drain that experience has been; in the end, very satisfying, but at some point, if you can’t do it at the level you feel you need to make it good, it’s better not to.”
Watts quoted that there was an “emotional tribe” on him after filming “Spider-Man: No way home” in the middle of the pandemic. It added him to feel exhausted before “The Fantastic Four.”
“The emotional burden on having to go through all these covid protocols while trying to do something creative while trying to make sure your role and crew were safe – literally people could have died if you did things wrong – that and the post -production was very difficult,” he said. “When you do (visual effects work) there is a whole international component where you use suppliers from all over the world, and the supply chain had been canceled due to Covid. It was really difficult to have effects in a traditional way.”
As for Shakman’s Verison, Watts said: “It will be completely surreal experience for me to go and watch that movie.”
After leaving “The Fantastic Four” Watts continued to Directly “wolf” for appleIn addition to collaborating the “Star Wars” series “Skeleton Crew” for Disney.
