Scott Derrickson is opening up about his favorite films of the year which includes the Greta Gerwig-directed film Barbie and why it deserves to win Best Picture at the Oscars.
“I think Barbie is the best film I’ve seen this year—well, maybe that’s not true; I saw this horror film, When Evil Lurks at Fantastic Fest, but Barbie and When Evil Lurks those are my two favorite films of the year, which couldn’t be further away from each other,” the filmmaker said in an upcoming episode of The Discourse podcast.
He continued, “Barbie is a good example of populist I.P. that was treated with true brilliance. That’s an extraordinary movie on every level. I think it should probably win Best Picture; the writing is so clever and so smart and subversive, the acting is amazing, and it’s so entertaining, it’s artful in its visuals, the style of it, it’s just an awesome film.”
In the same episode of the podcast, Derrickson also talked about the reasons he had to walk away from helming the sequel to Marvel‘s Doctor Strange.
“All I can say is that what we said publicly is exactly the truth,” Derrickson said on The Discourse. “We had real creative differences. You know, the movie I wanted to make and how I wanted to make it was different than–it was just increasingly obvious that we were pulling against each other. And that’s how you make a really bad movie, I think. When the producer or the studio and the filmmaker are making different movies, you end up with a monstrosity and, you know, that’s why I had to bounce.”
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness would go on to be directed by Sam Raimi and says he attended the premiere. Despite their creative differences, Derrickson says he’s “still friends with Kevin [Feige] and everything with me and Marvel is really cool.”
