After his film “Moonlight” won the Academy Award, Barry Jenkins had a lot of offers — but not from Marvel.
The filmmaker stopped by the Variety Studio presented by At&T at Tiff to talk about his new film premiering tomorrow night, “If Beale Street Could Talk.”When it was pointed out that many indie film directors then go on to work on franchise movies, Jenkins noted: “I don’t think Marvel watches ‘Moonlight’ and goes, ‘Let’s do that!’”He continued, “I wasn’t offered big Marvel movies or anything like that, but I was offered: What do you want to do? It was presented to me in a very clear way; you can do more or less whatever you want.
And what I wanted to do was finish the cycle of moonlight and [Beale Street].”He does say that “Beale Street,” based on the James Baldwin novel, has something in common with those big studio films.
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