She-Hulk reportedly cost $25 million per episode, with "half-baked scripts" - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 11-01-2023, 05:45 PM

https://variety.com/2023/film/featur...ng-1235774940/

Variety reporter Tatiana Siegel's exposé into Marvel's problems delves into the studio's well-known issues with VFX. Marvel’s VFX troubles resulted in the March firing of Victoria Alonso, who oversaw the studio’s physical production, postproduction, VFX and animation. "While the reason cited for her abrupt firing was her unauthorized role as an executive producer on the Oscar-nominated film Argentina, 1985, insiders say Disney was incensed that quality control on its Marvel productions was plummeting, particularly on the ever-expanding TV front," reports Alonso. "The VFX logjam had been evident for some time, with some final effects for such Disney+ series as WandaVision and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law inserted after their streaming debuts. That Alonso was busy promoting her art-house project while Rome burned certainly didn’t sit well with Disney’s leadership. (Alonso’s attorney says her client is unable to comment.) But some internal sources suggest Alonso was a scapegoat and point to the She-Hulk VFX issues as a symptom of a deeper rot — namely a lack of oversight on script development. In the original arc of She-Hulk, a flashback of star Tatiana Maslany’s transformation into her Hulk character didn’t take place until Episode 8, the penultimate episode. But after Marvel’s brain trust watched footage, it realized the scene needed to happen in the pilot episode so that audiences could see more of the character’s backstory early. That meant that the VFX team was tasked with fixing the mess in postproduction." As one person involved with She-Hulk tells Siegel: "The so-called bad VFX we see was because of half-baked scripts. That is not Victoria. That is (Marvel boss Kevin Feige). And even above Kevin. Those issues should be addressed in preproduction. The timeline is not allowing the Marvel executives to sit with the material.” Siegel adds: "All the while, Marvel was bleeding money, with a single episode of She-Hulk costing some $25 million, dwarfing the budget of a final-season episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones, but without a similar Zeitgeist bang."

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TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 125,366	She-Hulk reportedly cost $25 million per episode, with "half-baked scripts" https://variety.com/2023/film/featur...ng-1235774940/ Variety reporter Tatiana Siegel's exposé into Marvel's problems delves into the studio's well-known issues with VFX. Marvel’s VFX troubles resulted in the March firing of Victoria Alonso, who oversaw the studio’s physical production, postproduction, VFX and animation. "While the reason cited for her abrupt firing was her unauthorized role as an executive producer on the Oscar-nominated film Argentina, 1985, insiders say Disney was incensed that quality control on its Marvel productions was plummeting, particularly on the ever-expanding TV front," reports Alonso. "The VFX logjam had been evident for some time, with some final effects for such Disney+ series as WandaVision and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law inserted after their streaming debuts. That Alonso was busy promoting her art-house project while Rome burned certainly didn’t sit well with Disney’s leadership. (Alonso’s attorney says her client is unable to comment.) But some internal sources suggest Alonso was a scapegoat and point to the She-Hulk VFX issues as a symptom of a deeper rot — namely a lack of oversight on script development. In the original arc of She-Hulk, a flashback of star Tatiana Maslany’s transformation into her Hulk character didn’t take place until Episode 8, the penultimate episode. But after Marvel’s brain trust watched footage, it realized the scene needed to happen in the pilot episode so that audiences could see more of the character’s backstory early. That meant that the VFX team was tasked with fixing the mess in postproduction." As one person involved with She-Hulk tells Siegel: "The so-called bad VFX we see was because of half-baked scripts. That is not Victoria. That is (Marvel boss Kevin Feige). And even above Kevin. Those issues should be addressed in preproduction. The timeline is not allowing the Marvel executives to sit with the material.” Siegel adds: "All the while, Marvel was bleeding money, with a single episode of She-Hulk costing some $25 million, dwarfing the budget of a final-season episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones, but without a similar Zeitgeist bang."