Oscar Winning Everything Everywhere All at Once Director Daniel Kwan Feared This $384M Marvel Movie Doomed The Movie: “Everyone’s going to beat us to this thing”
Who would have thought that Everything Everywhere All at Once would make a clean sweep at the 95th Academy Awards by winning 7 Oscars from 11 nominations in different categories? Well, this is a fact now as the 2022 masterpiece won several hearts not just at the Oscars but at the box office as well. With such a common yet unique concept, the film made history at the biggest night in Hollywood.
While fans can’t help but think about the future of this marvelous project, the director Daniel Kwan in an old interview recalled being worried about their project which was in the making.
Daniel Kwan Was Concerned About The Concept of Everything Everywhere All at Once!
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The film director, Daniel Kwan, and Daniel Scheinert who are popularly known as The Daniels in a 2022 interview with Vulture gave an insight on the then-new film, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Opening up about their take on the multiverse which is the core of the film, Scheinert opened up about researching the concept as early as 2010 after he watched the documentary Sherman’s March.
Kwan further explained the latter’s insight by sharing,
“The multiverse became a vessel for us to point at infinity in a way that most other premises probably wouldn’t allow for.”
As their interest in science fiction began to grow stronger, they got worried when Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse film hit theatres.
“Then, as we were working on the movie, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse came out. It was a little upsetting because we were like, ‘Oh shit, everyone’s going to beat us to this thing we’ve been working on.’”
While they felt a bit intimidated by the Marvel movie, they continued to polish their concept and brought a multiverse that ended up bagging the most Oscars of this year.
The Daniels Won The Best Director Oscar!
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The filmmakers were honored with the prestigious Oscars Award in the Best Director category for their 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once. They are the third duo in Oscars history to take the golden statuette home this Sunday. After receiving the award, the duo addressed the audience and gave their acceptance speech.
Scheinert dedicated the award to “all the mommies of the world” and showed his gratitude to his parents for not squashing his creativity for his previous “disturbing” projects which he claimed were a threat to nobody.
Kwan added,
“There is greatness in every single person, it doesn’t matter who they are. If you have a genius that is waiting to erupt, you just need to find the right people to unlock that.”
Other than the Best Director category, the film won in categories including Best Picture, Original Screenplay, Lead Actress, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor, and Editing.
The sci-fi action adventure film is streaming on Netflix.
Source: Vulture
