Alert – Avengers director Joe Russo SLAMMED for throwing shade at Martin Scorsese over Killers Of The Flower Moon box office numbers: ‘In 50 years no one will know who he is’

 Avengers: Endgame director Joe Russo has been slammed for throwing shade at Martin Scorsese over Killers Of The Flower Moon’s box office numbers.

The drama began when the 52-year-old filmmaker took to his Instagram to mock the legendary 80-year-old Goodfellas director who has been critical of Marvel films in the past.

After Scorcese’s daughter Francesca posted a TikTok video sketch of the legendary filmmaker pretended to direct his dog, Russo took to his social media to share a video with his dog whom he said he named ‘Box Office’.

He jabbed at the film icon in the caption of the short clip on Instagram as he wrote: ‘It appears we have the same muse… @martinscorsese_’

Obviously this was a swipe at Scorsese’s criticisms of Marvel films including Russo’s Avengers: Endgame which at the time became the highest-grossing movie of all-time earning $2.8billion.

This came as Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon earned just $9million over the weekend which was good for third in the US Box office.

It has reached a worldwide total of $84.68million with $40.68million domestically.  

Film fanatics on X (formally Twitter) did not take too kindly to Russo’s diss of Scorsese as one wrote: ‘In 50 years no one will know who Joe Russo is.’

Another compared Russo and Scorsese to the iconic ‘I Feel Bad For You / I Don’t Think About You At All’ meme from Mad Men featuring Don Draper (played by Jon Hamm) and Michael Ginsberg (played by Ben Feldman).

 Another X user responded to Russo’s video by writing: ‘That Joe Russo video is genuinely one of the most desperately undignified things I’ve ever seen.’

Scorsese has made quite a habit of bashing the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) as back in September, the film icon criticized the superhero genre of films in a magazine profile.

Speaking with GQ ahead of the release of his latest film, the 80-year-old award winning director discussed his life, career and how comic book movies have changed the industry.

‘The danger there is what it’s doing to our culture, because there are going to be generations now that think movies are only those—that’s what movies are,’ said Scorsese.

‘Which means that we have to then fight back stronger. And it’s got to come from the grassroots level. It’s gotta come from the filmmakers themselves. And you’ll have, you know, the Safdie brothers, and you’ll have Chris Nolan, you know what I mean?’

This is not the first time Scorsese has attacked Marvel, in 2019 he said the comic book movies are not cinema but are more like theme parks.

‘I do think that the manufactured content isn’t really cinema,’ said Scorsese. ‘It’s almost like AI making a film. And that doesn’t mean that you don’t have incredible directors and special effects people doing beautiful artwork.’ 

‘But what does it mean? What do these films, what will it give you? Aside from a kind of consummation of something and then eliminating it from your mind, your whole body, you know? So what is it giving you?’

Scorsese said the film industry is not the same as it was near seven decades ago when he started his career.

He said studios are not, ‘interested any longer in supporting individual voices that express their personal feelings or their personal thoughts and personal ideas and feelings on a big budget. And what’s happened now is that they’ve pigeonholed it to what they call indies.’

He is an advocate for film preservation, and this summer attended a meeting with other famed directors and Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav following recent layoffs at Turner Classic Movies.

Last October, Scorsese slammed the film industry’s ‘repulsive’ obsession with ratings for ‘demeaning’ cinema.

He said since the 1980s, the industry has become more interested in ratings and how much money movies bring in.

In his GQ interview, he said was repulsed when executives tried to get him to let one of The Departed two leads live so they could turn it into a franchise.

‘What they wanted was a franchise. It wasn’t about a moral issue of a person living or dying. And then the studio guys walked out and they were very sad, because they just didn’t want that movie. They wanted the franchise. Which means: I can’t work here anymore.’

He said movie theaters are not dying, but they need to do more to entice people to go watch films.

‘I think there will always be theatrical, because people want to experience this thing together,’ Scorsese said.

‘But at the same time, the theatres have to step up to make them places where people will want to go and enjoy themselves or want to go and see something that moves them.’

This summer Scorsese’s Goodfellas was voted the best gangster movie of all time according to Ranker.