The Marvel pre-viz approach prompted some MCU directors to take pains to emphasize their own contributions—effectively telling the world that they had actually directed the biggest sequences in their own movies. Chloe Zhao, who directed Eternals, declared, “My God, for a year and a half, three times a week for a couple hours a day, I was sitting in front of a big screen making decisions for every detail of how visual effects could look in the real world.”
