The departure of Tim Miller may have more repercussions for the upcoming Deadpool 2. Miller was a first time director who brought something unique to the movie. Although the scriptwriters could take credit for the quality of the movie’s material, Miller played a heavy hand in executing Deadpool for the big screen, a product which audiences responded positively to all over the world.
The sequel will no doubt, receive a talented director but would he suffer the same fate as other directors who have taken over the reins of a successful superhero franchise. Here are four films that can be seen reasons to worry about the failure of the sequel.
1) The Amazing Spider-Man
2) X-Men: The Last Stand
Director Bryan Singer changed the blueprint of superhero movies when he made X-Men and its sequel X2: X-Men United. He was a dedicated fan who brought that passion into the film. When Brett rather took over from him with X-Men: The Last Stand, the passion was missing. Ratner did not rely enough on the source material as Singer had and it resulted in a critically panned movie that would leave the franchise on shaky grounds for a decade.
3)Thor: The Dark World
Kenneth Branagh, the respected director who had a Shakespearean background took on the first Thor movie, bringing a certain theatrical element to the superhero movie. The audiences responded very positively to the movie. The sequel did not receive the same warmth. Director Alan Taylor ended up making a movie that lacked the same quality that made the first film worked, a truly disappointing result.
4) Batman & Robin
Tim Burton’s interpretation of the Batman canon brought into focus the darker side of Batman that audiences had never experienced befor. Director Joel Schumacher completely destroyed that vision by bringing a Batman that had little depth and a style of filmmaking that was atrocious and disrespectful to the source material.
