Brian Cox, the prolific Shakespearean stage and film actor and star of HBO’s award-winning series Succession, said: the state of cinema is “very bad”targeting big blockbusters like Marvel and DC.
“What’s happened is that television is doing what film used to do,” Cox said when asked about the state of popular film and television. “I think film is in a very bad state. I think it’s lost its place due, in part, to the grandiose element between Marvel and DC and all that. And I think it’s starting to implode, actually. The thread is getting lost.”. The actor said all this when speaking at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Saturday, August 17,
Brian Cox went on to cite the Marvel Universe’s latest box office sensation, Deadpool and Wolverine, as an example, saying that while superhero movies are “making a lot of money,” from an actor’s perspective, the work becomes “diluted” after so many comic book releases.
“So For certain actors it is a party to do this kind of thing.“Cox said. “When you know that Hugh Jackman can do a little more, or Ryan Reynolds… They take that route and it’s a box office success. They make a lot of money. There’s nothing that can deny that.”
In 2003, Brian Cox starred in the successful sequel to X-Men, X2when 20th Century Fox still controlled the band of outcast supermutants. He played William Stryker, a megalomaniacal military scientist who Ironically he gave Logan his adamantium skeleton and created Wolverine.
Cox joked that he “often” forgets that his character “created” Wolverine in the history of the Marvel Universe.
“Deadpool meets Wolverine, who I created but have forgotten. In fact,” Cox added, “when these movies are made, there is always a bit of me (as Stryker) and they never pay me any money,” the actor joked in a review of the film. The Hollywood Reporterwhich is also published by the specialized site Variety.
