The Marvels director Nia DaCosta recently shared her views on Superman and Batman, as well as what makes someone a hero.
While speaking to Inverse, DaCosta was asked by interviewer Roxane Gay how she defined a hero. "Someone who's trying their best with the information and resources and tools they have at the time," she answered. "They'll always get it wrong. Heroes are complicated in a real-world sense because they are basically vigilantes; they don't have any oversight. Half the time no one's even asking for their help. It's tricky in that way, but integrity is a big part of it, choosing to put others before yourself, that sort of thing."
DaCosta added that something she had always found interesting in characters like the aforementioned Man of Steel and Dark Knight is that "their power is equal to their pain." "In terms of the most successful heroes, no matter how much power you have, you never really have control over yourself," DaCosta concluded. "That's something you see in characters like Magneto, for example. His emotional life is always going to overpower his actual power."
The Marvels' plot is currently being kept under wraps. However, in the same interview, DaCosta said that the upcoming movie would explore the human side of Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel. "For The Marvels, my biggest thing going into it was making sure I approached these characters as human beings and not necessarily as superheroes," DaCosta stated. "I want to know more about Captain Marvel. Who is she? What are her fears? What drives her? How do you actually deal with being the most powerful being in the universe? How does that weigh on you? That's the sort of thing I want to explore."
Directed by Nia DaCosta, The Marvels opens in theaters on Feb. 17, 2023.
Source: Inverse