After The Falcon and the Winter Soldier hit Disney+ last Friday, fans might wonder why the titular pair's new adventures are occurring in a TV show rather than on the silver screen. Thankfully, this is a question series director Kari Skogland has an answer for.
"From the beginning, we were making a six-hour film and just figuring out where to snip it at the certain hour marks," Skogland stated at a press conference for Falcon and Winter Soldier. "So Malcolm [Spellman] and I did a lot of looking at movies and shows, but primarily movies that were in our paradigm because we have a buddy-cop kind of relationship going on… I looked at a lot of different influences to help me put it into a box."
Director Kari Skogland added that she had been referring to the movies "like the snack and [the series] is like the meal," further stating that viewers "really can get involved with the characters in six hours in a way that [they] can't in a film."
"The films are high octane already and they’re immersed in some world saving event," she continued. "So it's very hard to go off on a little tangent with a character, because the stakes are so high in one singular direction. But on a series you're able to meander a little bit. We're able to get inside the lives of our characters. We're able to do a little more twists and turns that are a little less streamlined in the end…and also world build."
Directed by Kari Skogland, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier stars Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Emily VanCamp, Wyatt Russell, Noah Mills, Carl Lumbly and Daniel Brühl. New episodes debut on Fridays on Disney+.
Source: Discussing Film
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