James Gunn: Martin Scorsese bashed Marvel to ‘get press’ for ‘The Irishman’

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MTV’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast.“I just think it seems awful cynical that he would keep coming out against Marvel — and then that is the only thing that would get him press for his movie,” Gunn, 55, told pod host Josh Horowitz. “He’s creating his movie in the shadow of the Marvel films, and so he uses that to get attention for something he wasn’t getting as much attention as he wanted for it.”He was referring to Scorsese’s 2019 interview with Empire, in which the 78-year-old Hollywood icon said that he tried to watch Marvel movies but they weren’t his cup of tea. “I tried, you know?

But that’s not cinema,” lamented the Italian-American auteur, who was doing media rounds for his gangster epic “The Irishman” at the time. “Honestly, the.