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Nicolas Cage compared the MCU to the WWE
Nicolas Cage has some cutting thoughts on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Speaking at Fan Expo Dallas, the Oscar winner compared Marvel’s biggest movies to professional wrestling.
While Nicolas Cage has actually played two Marvel superheroes during his career — first in a pair of Ghost Rider movies about 20 years ago and in the recent Spider-Noir series on Prime Video — neither of those projects existed within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Nicolas Cage said that the MCU is becoming “a well-funded and glorified WWE”
According to Cage, the MCU has become like a “well-funded WWE” as it features “50-plus actors putting on ridiculous outfits.”
“I do say this with love, but when I see these 50-plus and otherwise intelligent and remarkably gifted thespians putting on these ridiculous outfits and getting ready for the fight — let’s face it, it’s all cutting to the fight — it’s hard for me not to be reminded that the MCU is becoming a well-funded and glorified WWE,” Cage said.
Spider-Noir, the Prime Video series that premiered back in May, was canceled after one season last month.
“For me, one season is perfect, having said what I wanted to say with this dangerous, innovative, pop-art Spider-Man,” he said at the time. “Onwards, upwards, inwards.”
The Oscar-winning actor will next be seen starring as John Madden in the extremely odd-looking Madden biopic when it hits Prime Video in November. Other roles Cage has coming up are in projects such as Best Pancakes in the Country, Fortitude, Lords of War, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, and The Prince.
Alongside Cage as legendary head coach John Madden, Madden also stars fellow Academy Award winner Christian Bale as late Raiders owner Al Davis.