Ryan Coogler is a director who earned his stripes as a filmmaker at the Sundance Film Festival. He directed a small independent film called Free Veil Station, which was made on a shoestring. And then suddenly he's thrust into the top echelon of directors and given a movie with a nine figure budget or an extensive computer generated imagery quotient. A lot of Marvel directors and a lot of people, you know, directing movies in this superhero space come from the same background. They don't have experience with VFX.
Bad visual effects in movies may have less to do with technology and more to do with workers being underpaid and overworked. Vulture senior reporter Chris Lee explains in this episode of Into It.
This episode was produced for Into It by Travis Larchuk and Jordana Hochman with help from Today, Explained's Siona Peterous, Laura Bullard, and Patrick Boyd.
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