Reshoots used to be a dirty word in the movie industry, due to the number of changes they would do to the director's movie. Films like Suicide Squad, Justice League and the 2015 Fantastic Four movie are some of the biggest victims of reshoots, becoming more generic after the reshoots immensely changed these movies. However, fans don't really look at them as too bad anymore since they've mostly been used to improve films, something Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige confirmed.
While speaking at the New York Film Academy, Feige stated that reshoots have been instrumental to the success of Marvel Studios, which is a bold claim but doesn't appear to be a wrong one. We've seen films like Avengers: Endgame use reshoots to their fullest, even bringing back Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One just so they could fix a line about time travel, which ended up being to their benefit.
"Reshoots was a bad word. 'Oh, this movie's in reshoots, there must be a problem.' Reshoots are key to our films, starting with Iron Man 1. We're smart filmmakers at Marvel, but we're not geniuses, and the best way to give notes on a movie is to watch the movie. So we make the movie and we watch it and we go, 'Oh yeah. No, that's not right. That doesn't work.' And have a system now that can be quite precise and quite efficient."
Thankfully, we're in an era where reshoots are now seen as a necessary way to make your film better, even if it doesn't always work. Hopefully, future reshoots are done because it's what the director and studio want, rather than it just being the studio wanting to make their movie more marketable.
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