ANTI

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maybe it's just me but this feige interview is kind of horrible? at least the timing of it.

mjpplus

11mo

I mean when would’ve been better lmao

Movie is out this week

ANTI

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Sure but talking about never having scripts ready, not sure what to do with Blade, planning a reboot while you still have a decent chunk of this saga left. It just seems like a lot of poorly timed admissions and weird flexes.

ANTI

11mo

maybe it's just me but this feige interview is kind of horrible? at least the timing of it.

mjpplus

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Key Quotes:

• On the pivot from Kang to Doom

  Getting access to the Fox Marvel characters has enabled Feige to plus-up the next two Avengers movies with the most notorious antagonist in the comic-books: Dr. Doom. While the original plan for the Avengers movie announced at Comic-Con 2019 was to feature Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror as the main baddie, the character’s future was thrown into question after the actor’s arrest for assaulting his then girlfriend in early 2023.
  Feige says, “Even before what had happened to the actor, we had started to realize that Kang wasn’t Thanos.”

“We had started talking about Dr. Doom even before we officially pivoted from Kang,” he says, “In fact, I had started talking with Robert about this audacious idea before Ant-Man 3 even came out.”

• Blade Update:

  Feige revealed on Friday that while there were four versions of Blade in the works, two of them period (one of them set in the 1930s), “we landed on modern day and that’s what we’re focusing on.”

On pausing Blade after the exit of two filmmakers, Yann Demange, exit and then assam Tariq’s departure, Feige says “We didn’t want to put a leather outfit on him and have him start killing vampires.”

“You can start and have a good script and make it a great script through production, but we didn’t feel confident we could do that on Blade,” he continues, “We didn’t want to do that to Mahershala and didn’t want to do that to us.”

• Movies & Disney+ Connection:

  Feige’s next phase of the MCU are fewer, more quality movies, numbering anywhere from 1 to 3 movies annually with less connectivity between the movies and TV shows.
  Still, while storylines won’t crossover between series and film, characters will, read Jon Bernthal’s The Punisher cameo in the upcoming Sony/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

“Where we have great actors playing great characters, I think it would be fun to see them in multiple places,” says Feige.

• On the MCU Post-Secret Wars

  With Downey Jr. now playing Dr. Doom, are there plans to recast the core Iron Man, Captain America, etc on the big screen? Yes and no. Feige sees a star such as Chris Hemsworth still in his prime to play Thor, and even cherishes the return of thespians (i.e. Tim Blake Nelson’s Samuel Stern in Captain America: Brave New World) who played Marvel characters years ago. But, yes, in the long-term like with many other storied movie franchises, Marvel classic superheros will get new faces. When exactly? “X-Men is where that will happen,” promised Feige.

In addition, post Avengers: Secret Wars, there is a plan he says to “reset singular timelines” and reboot he MCU. Are there more R-rated MCU movies after making the highest grossing R-rated movie of all-time with Deadpool & Wolverine at $1.33 billion? Sure. “Where appropriate and where necessary,” says Feige.

In regard to Feige’s future and whether there’s more Marvel under him, he’s not going anywhere. While his contract is up in two years, he tells us, “Do I want to be making big movies for big audiences in ten or 15 years from now? Yes, that’s all I want to do. Marvel is great way to do that.”

MichaelScotch24

11mo

Genius

MichaelScotch24

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Genius

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No way yall actually watch this s*** right

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No way yall actually watch this s*** right

DEL634

11mo

Why wouldn't we..

MichaelScotch24

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Genius

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No way yall actually watch this s*** right

BRAVE

11mo

After hearing about the Mephisto big bad rumor…

I hope Marvel stops with this chasing Thanos obsession. It was a fluke. Y’all don’t have another Infinity Gauntlet to lead up to + Infinity Stones to spread across films as connective MacGuffins to the eventual Infinity War. Kang is not that guy and as much as I want to say Feige was bullshitting about why he veered from Kang - I was saying they should’ve just did Doom since they announced Kang, so if MY regular ass was saying it then Feige was definitely thinking it. And y’all screwed that second opportunity up with Secret Wars by not establishing the Reed and Doom rivalry from the moment Phase III was over

There is nothing Infinity War/Secret Wars left to adapt for The Avengers source material with all the right pieces as those two inherently possess. Just be Marvel f***ing christ

TheFader

11mo

Wouldn’t say it’s a fluke whatsoever, they have other characters and other events that easily could be built up to à la the Infinity Saga, Doom/Secret Wars being the main one. The problem is they just didn’t take the time or care to lead to it like they did for that saga.

I don’t think Feige was saying Mephisto is gonna be another Thanos-level villain, moreso someone that lurks in the background and pops up in various projects akin to Loki