Christopher Walken Joins Marvel Movie Criticism Debate
Christopher Walken weighs in on the ongoing debate surrounding Marvel and the MCU. Walken is one of the most recognizable actors working in Hollywood today, with a career dating back to the 1950s. The actor is best known for his roles in movies like The Deer Hunter and Catch Me If You Can, and most recently was the subject of widespread acclaim for his role as Burt on the Apple TV+ show Severance. Walken was also recently cast in Denis Villeneuve's highly anticipated Dune: Part Two, expected to play the role of Emperor Shaddam IV.
Despite his long and varied career, Walken has yet to appear in a Marvel film. The MCU as it exists today, which can largely be traced back to 2008's Iron Man, has been the subject of much debate in the Hollywood community. The argument was pushed into the limelight in 2019, when iconic director Martin Scorsese said that Marvel films weren't cinema, and that they were more akin to "theme parks." Many actors and directors have since weighed in on the argument, including the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, who agreed with Scorsese's sentiment, and Nick Fury actor Samuel L. Jackson, who defended Marvel movies as a valid form of art.
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In a new interview with The Sydney Morning Herald to promote his latest show, The Outlaws, Walken joins the ongoing debate around Marvel movies. The actor explains that, with the huge budgets for MCU films, a dozen smaller movies could be made. Walken also talks about the state of the movie industry more generally, lamenting that smaller movies no longer have a place in movie theaters and that only large tentpole films get the theatrical release treatment. Check out Walken's full comment below:
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