How ‘Thunderbolts*’ Director Jake Schreier Made a Very Different Marvel Movie

Back in 2022, when director Jake Schreier was working on “Beef,” which would go on to become a critical darling and win eight Emmys, he had an afterschool project – pitching on a new Marvel Studios movie.

The process was prolonged – by Schreier’s own account it took six or seven months. Each month or so he would meet with Marvel Studios producer Brian Chapek and discuss the project some more. “I would check in and we’d have a new conversation. And I just tried every time to just come with something new and really imagine...