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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 30 august 2019
Marvel celebrates 80th anniversary with massive comic

By ANTHONY McCARTNEY Brevoot, the issue's editor. and exclusion are not patri-
Associated Press Brevoot said he gave the otic values.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mar- issue's dozens of creators Marvel did not comment
vel Comics is celebrating general guidance, but also on the changes and in-
its 80th anniversary with the freedom to explore a terviews for this story were
a massive issue that pays character or story line in a completed before the Re-
tribute to its history and in- single page. Many of the porter's story was posted.
troduces a new object with pages adopt what Brevoot While many of the pages
implications for the super- called a "confessional" ap- are one-offs, about a quar-
hero universe going for- proach where a character ter of the issue is devoted
ward. is speaking to an interview- to a story line that traces
The Marvel Comics 1000 is- er. The page for 2017 fea- back to Marvel's infancy
sue, available Wednesday, tures superheroes' answers about a trio of men trying
pays homage to many of to "What do you regret," or to harness the power of a
Marvel's most recognizable another in which Deadpool black mask that has been
characters, including Iron takes a little too long to an- passed down for centuries.
Man, the Hulk and Spider- swer one of the issue's re- Whoever wears the mask
Man, and also spotlights curring questions, "Why do gains powers that give
some lesser known ones. you do what you do?" them a fighting chance
Each page is devoted to Brevoot said: "Even if you against even the strongest
a year in Marvel's history, don't like very single page, superheroes.
with the first one recounting there's another page right Before Marvel 1000, the
the creation of the Human after it that's different." trio called the Three Xs ap-
Torch in Marvel Comics No. The artistic styles range peared in only a single Mar-
1 in 1939. from the simpler drawings vel issue from 1940. While
A mix of serious and humor- of early comics to the hy- other characters from Mar-
ous stories follows, like the per-detailed style of some vel's early days have been
page devoted to 1944 in contemporary titles. There reimagined, writer Al Ew-
which Captain America are numerous guest writ- ing said the old story of the
explains why he fights, Dr. ers, including authors Neil Three Xs "had something
Strange's struggle to keep Gaiman and Brad Meltzer, very familiar about it" and
his magic cape smelling basketball great Kareem provided a seed to bring a
fresh (1951), the introduc- Abdul-Jabar and film di- This image provided by Marvel Comics shows the cover of Mar- broad story that fit not only
tion of Groot (1960) and rectors Phil Lord and Chris- vel Comics #1000, the publisher’s 80th anniversary issue. the anniversary issue, but
a page devoted to Iron topher Miller. Associated Press one that will continue in
Man's suit for 2008, the year Brevoot said he enlisted upcoming comics. Ewing,
Marvel's blockbuster film people he knew were fans see." tered from an early version who is credited as the is-
franchise launched. of Marvel comics with the Controversy emerged Tues- that pointed to inequalities sue's "mastermind," said he
"I definitely wanted this to aim of adding a "cool fla- day after The Hollywood in America and flaws in its scoured old Marvel issues
be a range of experiences vor" to some of the pages Reporter posted a story systems. The revised text to make sure there were
and not have it be an 80- and "show the reach that noting that the text on Cap- has Captain America talk- enough bread crumbs that
page chucklefest" nor "an Marvel has had over 80 tain America's page repre- ing about fighting injustice Marvel 1000 could go back
80-page downer," said Tom years that you don't really senting 1944 had been al- and how hatred, bigotry and find later. q

Scarlett Johansson says 'Marriage Story' felt fated

VENICE, Italy (AP) — When Although Johansson had lyze it afterward, but that
Noah Baumbach asked her own experiences to it was two "pretty difficult"
Scarlett Johansson to meet draw on having most re- days. Baumbach added
with him about a new film cently divorced French that it was "harrowing" and
he was going to write about businessman Romain Dauri- they'd often have to stop
a divorce, he didn't know ac in 2017, she said there for a break, with the actors
she was going through one was something of every- either going to their rooms
in real life. one behind the film in the or taking a walk around the
"It felt fated in a way," Jo- brutally honest but tender block to regroup.
hansson said. "It came character study. "They would run the whole
somehow at just the right Baumbach wrote the script scene almost every time.
time." knowing that Driver and It was like watching two
Johansson stars alongside Johansson would play the of the best athletes com-
Adam Driver in the Netf- couple in question. He said pete," Baumbach said. "In
lix film about a couple — he realized in the writing many ways it was one of
she plays an actress and process that, "Through a di- Actors Laura Dern, from left, Adam Driver and Scarlett Johans- the most rewarding expe-
son pose for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Mar-
he plays a theater direc- vorce we could explore a riage Story' at the 76th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Ven- rience I've had as a direc-
tor — with an 8-year-old marriage." ice, Italy, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019. tor."
son managing a bi-coastal "Although they're coming Associated Press The film will make stops at
separation and divorce. It apart, love always exists," the Telluride and Toronto
premiered Thursday at the he said. "It's in every scene, added that it personifies larly traumatic fight, had Film Festivals before hit-
Venice Film Festival, where it's there." "the business of divorce." audiences at the Venice ting theaters on Nov. 6, fol-
it is competing for the Laura Dern, who plays Jo- One scene, in which the Film Festival buzzing. Driver lowed by its Netflix debut
Golden Lion award. hansson's divorce lawyer, two leads have a particu- said he didn't really ana- on Dec. 6.q