{"id":2117219,"date":"2025-10-26T22:22:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2117219"},"modified":"2025-10-26T22:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:22:19","slug":"the-steven-spielberg-film-that-inspired-one-of-marvels-scariest-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-steven-spielberg-film-that-inspired-one-of-marvels-scariest-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Steven Spielberg Film That Inspired One Of Marvel’s Scariest Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Marvel Zombies” has a surprisingly wholesome origin story<\/a>, as the title was lifted from a term that was coined to affectionately describe fans of Marvel’s comic books. As a piece of entertainment, however, the Disney+ series \u2014 like the comics series it’s based on \u2014 is a horrific and bloody affair. With that in mind, it makes sense that the creators of “Marvel Zombies” turned to the work of Steven Spielberg \u2014 a director with some serious horror bona fides thanks to “Jaws” and other great flicks \u2014 for inspiration while making the undead yarn.<\/p>\n

During an interview for Brandon Davis’ “Phase Hero”<\/a> podcast, “Marvel Zombies” director Bryan Andrews revealed that Spielberg’s “War of the Worlds” inspired the scene where Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) tries to escape from a zombie and kaiju-plagued San Francisco. The sequence entails buildings falling to the ground and carnage breaking out on the streets, but how did Spielberg’s alien invasion thriller help shape it? Here’s what Andrews had to say:<\/p>\n

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“There was the scene in Spielberg’s ‘War of the Worlds’ when the first Martian craft erupts out of the city street and starts frying people. And you’re running with people, and people are just randomly turning into dust, and their clothes go flying. […] There was this urgency, this feeling of there is no escape. There’s nowhere you can go. And so I think that was in the back of my head for that initial part of running with them through the city.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s easy to spot the “War of the Worlds” inspiration in the “Marvel Zombies” scene, as it also involves up-close shots of characters running for their lives while everything around them implodes. The sequence is intense \u2014 just like Spielberg’s underrated 2005 sci-fi movie.<\/p>\n

Read more: 10 Marvel Characters Who Could Beat Batman In A Fight<\/a><\/p>\n

War of the Worlds is a dark Steven Spielberg movie<\/h2>\n
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