We had a young man working with us, who we lost. It was Andy, and he was helping us in the marketing department. It was surprising and sudden. He was relatively young, and unfortunately we lost him.

We’re talking about a film about loss. One of the things in it that I wanted to make sure of was that the message we sent to him did not throw the audience. He was a lovely, lovely man.

You seem to have made a conscious point here to make a comic book movie without guns. It would have been easy to go the same way and get the same rating. So was that a day one decision? Were there any other boundaries that you set yourself?

It’s really interesting. I don’t think there was ever a discussion in the room that we were going to do it without guns. But I think there was a common awareness that if we could, it’d be really great. Obviously in America, guns are a different issue to how they are over here…