8 Directors Who Hate Superhero Movies
2. David Cronenberg
As one of Hollywood’s most cerebral directors (and the only filmmaker to have successfully brought William Boroughs to the screen), you’d expect David Cronenberg to have a problem with a genre not known for its perspicacity and in 2012 he ripped into superhero movies with a vengeance.
“A superhero movie, by definition, you know, it’s comic book. It’s for kids,” he said. “This has always been its appeal, and I think people who are saying The Dark Knight Rises is, you know, supreme art cinema, I don’t think they know what the f**k they’re talking about.”
He went on: “Christopher Nolan’s best movie is Memento and that is an interesting movie. I don’t think his Batman movies are half as interesting, though they’re twenty million times the expense.”
Given that Cronenberg’s last feature, Maps To The Stars, was a low-budget drama about a dysfunctional Hollywood family, you can rule him out from taking the helm of Iron Man IV.