The Piano, was asked about her thoughts on the genre during a screening of her new film, The Power Of The Dog.Speaking to Variety, Campion said: “I hate them.
I actually hate them.”Asked if she’d ever consider directing a superhero film, she added: “I think It’s safe to say that I will never do that.
They’re so noisy and like ridiculous. Sometimes you get a good giggle, but I don’t know what the thing is with the capes, a grown man in tights.
I feel like it must come from pantomime.”Campion is the latest director to lament superhero films. Martin Scorsese previously compared them to “theme parks” in 2019, which was met with criticism from Guardians Of The Galaxy director James Gunn.Ridley Scott recently branded them “fucking boring as shit”.
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