{"id":2481372,"date":"2026-06-30T02:01:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2481372"},"modified":"2026-06-30T02:01:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:01:50","slug":"yellowstone-creator-taylor-sheridan-slams-marvel-movies-and-studio-execs-it-didnt-used-to-be-this-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/yellowstone-creator-taylor-sheridan-slams-marvel-movies-and-studio-execs-it-didnt-used-to-be-this-way\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYellowstone\u201d creator Taylor Sheridan slams Marvel movies and studio execs: &#8216;It didn&#8217;t used to be this way&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">Key Points<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Yellowstone<\/em> creator Taylor Sheridan said he doesn&#8217;t like how most films rely on dialogue rather than action to move a story forward.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He cited Marvel movies as an example of films that use &#8220;information dumps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em> has reached out to Marvel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Well, don&#8217;t expect <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/taylor-sheridan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Taylor Sheridan;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Taylor Sheridan&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Taylor Sheridan<\/a> to go see Marvel&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/the-surprising-reason-tom-holland-credits-the-odyssey-for-saving-spider-man-brand-new-day-11989262\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Spider-Man: Brand New Day;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Spider-Man&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><em>Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/em><\/a> when it arrives in theaters next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The writer and co-creator of <em>Yellowstone <\/em>is not a fan. The topic came up Sunday on the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/a-crazy-nba-month-with-zach-lowe-plus-taylor-sheridan\/id1043699613?i=1000774630042\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Bill Simmons Podcast;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Bill Simmons Podcast&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><em>Bill Simmons Podcast<\/em><\/a> when Sheridan explained his screenwriting work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sheridan noted that, when he was starting out, he wanted to simply do what everyone else was <em>not <\/em>doing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;What everyone else was doing was taking shortcuts,&#8221; Sheridan said. &#8220;Essentially, breaking all the very basic, fundamental rules of storytelling. Because they couldn&#8217;t figure out their story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong><em>Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our <\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/ew-dispatch-newsletter-11812417\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:EW Dispatch newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;EW Dispatch newsletter&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><strong><em>EW Dispatch newsletter<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He added, &#8220;With a movie, you&#8217;re supposed to <em>show<\/em> me what&#8217;s happening. The camera is supposed to move the story. The dialogue is supposed to tell me how the people in this world feel about what&#8217;s happening or what they hope to do or what they wish they hadn&#8217;t done or had done. So, if you stick to that one basic rule from the beginning, never have a character tell me something that the camera could show me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That&#8217;s when the superhero studio entered the chat, and Sheridan wasn&#8217;t giving them a compliment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Danny Ramirez and Anthony Mackie star in Marvel&#8217;s &#8216;Captain America: Brave New World&#8217; in 2024<br \/>Credit: Eli Ad\u00e9\/Marvel<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;All these Marvel movies do it, ad nauseam,&#8221; Sheridan said of the company behind hit franchises such as <em>Captain America<\/em>, <em>The<\/em> <em>Avengers<\/em>, and, yep, <em>Spider-Man<\/em>. &#8220;Where they will just have information dumps that you have to follow to get to the action rather than actually moving plot with action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em> has reached out to Marvel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In Sheridan&#8217;s view, this way of storytelling is a recent development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It didn&#8217;t used to be this way when Steve McQueen was a movie star at Paramount and Bobby Evans ran the studio because writers were turned loose. Directors were turned completely loose,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There weren&#8217;t endless rewrites. There weren\u2019t meetings with executives about tone and mood and all this nonsense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He charged that &#8220;the studio executives and the network executives \u2014 these are marketing executives, for the most part. Or maybe they studied law or whatever. Then they came, got a job in the mailroom at CAA or WME, and hated that s&#8212;. So then they ended up as an intern at some network. Then, through attrition, they find themselves the head of development. Well, what do you know about developing story? You know nothing. So they get terrified, panicked that the audience won\u2019t get it because they actually have no storytellers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/yellowstone-creator-taylor-sheridan-slams-marvel-movies-12009307\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Entertainment Weekly;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Entertainment Weekly&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Points Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan said he doesn&#8217;t like how most films rely on dialogue rather than action to move a story forward. He cited Marvel movies as an example of films that use &#8220;information dumps.&#8221; Entertainment Weekly has reached out to Marvel. Well, don&#8217;t expect Taylor Sheridan to go see Marvel&#8217;s Spider-Man: Brand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2481373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[488476,305488,307168],"class_list":["post-2481372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bill-simmons-podcast","tag-marvel-movies","tag-taylor-sheridan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Yellowstone-creator-Taylor-Sheridan-slams-Marvel-movies-and-studio-execs.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481374,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481372\/revisions\/2481374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2481373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}