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Nightcrawler Director Dan Gilroy Takes A Shot At The Superhero Genre


Yet another director thinks movies based on comic books are the root of all evil. After penning the script for such films like Real Steel, and The Bourne Legacy, which by the way starred more than a few actors currently playing superheroes or villains, Dan Gilroy made his directorial debut with Nightcrawler. The film featured and astonishing performance by Jake Gyllenhaal, who played Lou Bloom, an L.A. crime reporter who more often than not crosses the line between objective journalist and participant in the story he is reporting.

While at the Independent Spirit Awards, where he won Best First Feature, and Best Screenplay, Gilroy felt the need to self commiserate on the fact that he his directorial debut, which besides winning two awards at the ISA, was also nominated for an Oscar, is fighting the "tsunami of superhero movies" currently being made in Hollywood.

"Independent film, the foundation and everybody here today, I think are holdouts against a tsunami of superhero movies that have swept over this industry. We have survived and we have thrived and I think that's true spirit."


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Source - THR 

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