Still More Reshoots for Captain America: Brave New World
It’s been a week and a half since Captain America: Brave New World was reportedly having reshoots, which means it’s going through another round of reshoots. Scooper Daniel RPK (whose blog is under a paywall, so here’s ComicBookMovie.com with the story) reports that the troubled (to say the least) film that functions as a sequel to the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier – and Avengers: Endgame, I suppose – had a third series of test screenings, and these went about as well as the previous ones, so it’s being retooled yet again. This movie is scheduled to hit theaters on February 14, 2025, so there’s not a whole lot of time to change the movie any more than they have. To that end, Word of Reel says that a source they refer to as “a rep close to the ‘Brave New World’ production” tells them these reshoots are not the extensive ones Daniel RPK says they are, but the standard touch-ups most big productions go through.
I can see this going either way. Since it’s so close to the film’s release, it makes sense that any more Brave New World reshoots would be basic stuff as opposed to something that would alter the movie in any significant way. And they’re running out of time at this point; what more can they do to change Brave New World now? At the same time, Word of Reel describes their source as a “rep,” meaning this person’s job is to give the movie the best public relations possible; that would include downplaying the severity of big reshoots after another disastrous series of test screenings. And recall that Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania reshot its ending a month before it was released, so compared to that, Brave New World is being downright economical. The rep also didn’t mention the new test screenings, at least insofar as Word of Reel reported, so either they didn’t take place, or they weren’t a factor in the reshoots. I tend to think they did happen, as there were reshoots after the last round of test screenings; it would make sense for Marvel and Disney to gauge whether the new/altered scenes made a difference… which, it would appear, they didn’t.
What a joke this studio has become. Forget the quality of the film for a moment; how little does the movie itself matter to anyone if it can be reshot this many times and this extensively? Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania turned into a nonsensical patchwork of at least two different scripts, with so little care put into the final product aside from hitting a few targets (a happier ending, more silly comedy, whatever other stupid garbage they cared about more than a movie that looked like an actual movie) that it felt like some cheap piece of merchandise rather than a narrative. I won’t be surprised if that’s what Brave New World ends up being: a shaky, inconsistent film so tinkered with that it barely holds together, if it does at all. And at this point, I don’t know why they’re wasting their money. It’s obvious audiences don’t like Brave New World, no matter how much Marvel changes it. What can they do at this late stage that will suddenly turn this into a winner? Plus, it has a reputation for being so bad that it needs to be remade every few months, a problem that more reshoots will only exacerbate. All they’re accomplishing is sinking more money into this dud in some quixotic attempt to make it all finally come together. I think it’s time for them to lay their cards down and see what happens.
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