Jason Mantzoukas

Like there's a lot of this movie that has like Miller's Crossing mapped onto it.

You know, where Brendan Gleeson is the Albert Finney character and Cage is the Gabriel Byrne character.

Perfect.

Right.

Exactly.

And that I was like, oh, I would love a Sam Raimi noir working with Nick Cage.

That would be very interesting to me because that I think would have made it feel a little bit more.

Did you feel like he made big choices that couldn't be backed up?

Or everybody needs to do that.

Or everybody else needs to match them.

Because they are very vividly in comic book.

They are in...

You know, not just comic book, but also the rat-a-tat-tat.

Yeah, yeah.

30s, 40s, noir.

Everywhere.

loyalty motif versus the love story with Kat this is what I mean by like there's so much going on but I'm not really invested in any of it nor do I understand nor am I clear who what they want me what do they want me to feel like who do they want me to be rooting for Kat and Flint or Kat and Ben or Kat and Silvermane or Kat on her own or what you know like like and I was like and I kept being like

is this cat gonna be... Is this cat Hardy gonna be Felicia Hardy?

Is this person gonna be Black Cat?

Is that what they're setting up here?