Daniel Espinosa shared his reflective thoughts on his career in a recent interview with Deadline while attending the Taormina Film Festival. Espinosa is set to direct a Swedish suspense crime drama called Helicopter Heist for Netflix to premiere this year based on the real heist in Stockholm in 2009. Espinosa had a lot to say in the interview about how healing leaving Hollywood was with being able to return to his craft with a clear mind with the Madame Luna project and the upcoming series he is now directing. Madam Luna premiered at Taormina.

To quote Espinosa, “I spent 12 years in America … and it slowly got apparent to me that what I was doing made me slowly drift away from the reason I started making pictures. So I really had a necessity somehow to get back to why I do movies at all.” With this fresh mindset, the director of Morbius set out to make films that he enjoyed returning to the independent style of films that he had been known for before, such as Easy Money, Life, and Safe House. Espinosa also shared that he felt that a different director would have been better suited for Morbius pointing out how his independent style clashed with the committee requirements of Marvel as a result of restrictions put in place during the pandemic.

Despite his poor experience with large studio productions Espinosa stated he wouldn’t be against returning to Hollywood for another production.