{
  "id": 5597736,
  "title": "Chloé Zhao Defends Comic-Book Movies: ‘It’s Important to Not Write Off Stories Because We Don’t Consider Them High Art’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/chloe-zhao-defends-comic-book-movies-its-important-to-not-write-off",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-04T16:51:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/festivals/chloe-zhao-defends-comic-book-movies-venice-1236851430/"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "When Chloé Zhao was growing up, she dreamed not of directing movies but becoming a manga artist. “But I wasn’t very good at drawing. I wasn’t up to standard,” she said with a laugh during a wide-ranging masterclass about her career on Friday afternoon at the Venice Film Festival. “I wanted to tell stories. I […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}