Exactly. What an ugly take on the situation. She’s a woman working with a man. Obviously she’s not the lead, even though I know nothing about them.

Given that they picked a female director and the partner THAT SHE ALWAYS WORKS WITH, great! Let’s do this! Why should she have been disqualified just because she chooses to work as part of a team that happens to include a man?

What tells you she is not the “lead” director? You don’t know how they work together and how they divide tasks. Why automatically assume she is the subordinate?

Being disappointed because it’s the not the specific person you would have liked is normal and understandable. But let’s stop insinuating that Anna Boden doesn’t count as a female director because she chose to work in tandem with someone else.

Why? It’s not like she usually directs solo, and Marvel decided to saddle her with a male co-director because they didn’t trust her. Those two ALWAYS work as a team. Just like the Russo brothers, or the Wachowskis sisters or Lord & Miller or Nelverdine & Taylor or the Coen brothers. Directing duo are not that rare.…

According to IMDB they’ve been working as a team since NYU, although I have to say that her bio mentions that they dated, while his does not bother with this detail. Sexism-lite!

I just knew that’s how somebody would take it, but I checked their IMDB - they seem to always work together, even when doing TV. So that was probably their choice to be hired as a pair.

Except they work as a team. Google isn’t that hard.

Not the case at all. Boden and Fleck have worked together on many very good films. I loved Mississippi Grind and Sugar.

They’ve always worked as a team and, IIRC, neither of them is the “main” director.

Do you think the right people are the ones being hired right now? People want women/minorities only because there’s a long history of them somehow never being “the right person.”

Because it’s flat out not an even playing field, that’s why. White male directors like Gareth Edwards can go from one film to iconic franchises, while female and minority directors who have decades of experience don’t even get a phone call.

I don’t think so, everything these days has to be a sexist theme? marvel just found a couple of directors that fits their expections. period.

But that take isn’t hot at all!

He’s ‘had to supervise her’ on the 7 other films she’s directed, too.

The script has already been written by the woman who first wrote Guardians and the woman who wrote Pixar’s Inside-Out.

and this, seriously, is the problem.

Or, they’re just a team of writer/directors and prefer working together?

I think you are right that we live in an interesting time where it’s an option to have so many characters who would otherwise only live in comics or graphic novels coming to life in both tv series and movies. That said, some of what you are describing is also what I would consider “internet cultural” ways of talking…

The more you conspiracy theorists arise to claim that it’s “the thing to do to badmouth DC,” the more ridiculous you look.