It’s a cultural problem at the studio all the way to the top. Like look at #xmen97. I had a locked 9 epsiode awesome season 2 done for them in animatic form in March 2024. It was ready to be animated, and would’ve undergone the same polish in post that Season 1 did (where I fine tuned and tightened a lot of the dialogue and pacing in editorial — especially since one of the directors didn’t work out and I was having other directors come in to fix their subpar work).
They have since re-opened it, tore it up, and a year later they STILL don’t have a locked season 2. STILL. It’s now a Frankenstein. Meanwhile, Marvel has silo’d the crew from what they’re doing because they don’t want to give up creative control like they had to with me. One exec in particular — who actively conspired to push me out — has basically seized control and isolates everyone so only she knows what’s going on. This is the same exec who said I was “too much of a fan” and would reprimand me for engaging with fans online b/c God forbid you talk to your customers to learn what matters to them.
I had Season 1 of X-Men, with delays, ready far before we premiered last March. We sat on episodes and could’ve premiered (as originally planned) in Sept 2023. How they still don’t have Season 2 in shape is a testament to the incompetence that is tolerated — and in fact rewarded — at this studio.
Now, they can’t focus on Season 3 because the same bad customers at Marvel keep blowing up Season 2 (which I’ve now learned what they’ve done and it’s just not good), pitching ideas like Emma and Logan hooking up, and re-jiggering things because they have zero idea what I was planning or doing.
Even worse, the crew is miserable and overworked.
Once more, doing the only thing it appears to do best lately: abuse artists and crew in the pursuit of mediocre results.
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