The Marvels director Nia DaCosta has revealed she is a big fan of Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children and even used it as inspiration for the film.
The latest in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero franchise is set for release later this week, with DaCosta admitting to IGN the Square Enix film was used as a reference for “a couple of scenes”.
“It’s just an amazing, amazing movie, and has really great fight scenes and has a really great ending sequence with the main character being thrown into the sky by all the other characters,” she said of Advent Children.
In fact, DaCosta said she was inspired by a number of video games and wanted to bring the best of the medium to The Marvels, though she didn’t want the film “to look like a video game in the sense of what you think of when you think of a video game”.