Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige at Disney’s 2024 Cinemacon Presentation. Photo: disney.
Preview:
- Kevin feige has given a wide-ringing interview about the state of marvel.
- He touched on the delays with ‘Blade’.
- He also admitted that recent disappointments essited a change in Thinking.
With the studio’s latest giant release – – and one of its biggest gambles in years on the way via ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’, Marvel boss Kevin feige Took the options to address some of the topics that have been floating Around, Including Recent underperforming Movies and TV Series Under the Marvel Cinematic Universes, HIS OWN FUTUTE (Spoiler ALERT Stick Around!) And more.
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Among the other subjects? The long-gestating and Troubled development of a new ‘Blade’ Movie, and His Team’s New Seven-Year Plan for New Movies and Shows and Whether we’ll see actors from end credits cameos in the future.
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What’s Happy ‘Blade’?
(Left) Maharshala Ali Attends The 89th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2017 in Hollywood, California. Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images. (Right) Marvel Studios’ “Blade.”
Blade, The Daywalking Half-Human-Half-Vampire Character Most Family Played by Wesley snipesWas Announced for a Reboot Back at 2019’s San Diego Comic-Con. Since then, it has been a drawwn-out log of multiple script drafts, directors coming, going, going, different time periods considered and, all thought it, Oscar Winner Maharshala ali Staying attached to the lead role.
Here’s what feige had to say about it:
“You can start and have a good script and make it a great script through production, but we didn Bollywood bel confident we would do that on ‘blade’. Us.
Feige also joked that Ryan Coogler – – who is developing a third ‘Black Panther’ Outing for the company–Added to the delay by utilizing some of the costumes the company had created for a prohibition-ke take on the story in his own recent hit, ‘Sinners’,
Feige on movies and shows feeling like homework
(L to r) Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Alexi Shostakov / Red Guardian (David Harbor), Ghost (Hannah John-Kumen), and John Walker (WYATT RUSSELL) in Marvel Studios ” ” ” ” ” ”. Photo by chuck zlotnick. © 2024 Marvel.
The executive also touched on complaints that Sheer output and Deepened Connectivity Between The Disney+ Mcu series and the big screen outings were feeling like Homework and Turning off Viewers who hadn’t seen them, which in turns hurt the box office alsos of ‘The marvels’ and ‘Thunderbolts*’:
“Some of them was still feeling the residual effects of that notion of, ‘i guess I had seen these other shows to understand who this is,’ I think if you actually have the movie, that wowlodn’t be the casse, and white Make the movie so that’s not the case.
Going forward, we can expect to see some of the actors (such as ‘Doctor Strange in the Multivers of Madness’ Charlize theron) Who cameoed in end credits stings, but not everyone, and not right now. Feige cited the example of Tim Blake NelsonWho Had to Wait 17 years for his ‘Incredible Hulk’ Character, samuel sterns, to return in this year’s ‘Captain America: Brave New World’.
According to feige, the company has a seven-yar plan to take it up to 2032, admitting that while he most much of it will stay on track, projects are on Magnets on a board in a board in a board Move Around as Necessary.
Feige on the kang/doom issue
Marvel Studios’ ‘Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.’
Perhaps the biggest topic feige had to address was how Jonathan majors‘Kang was ramped up as the future big bad, only to drop away (Around the same time the actor was accused of assault) in favor of the return of Robert downy jr. to the mcu, this time as Dr. Doom.
His Answer Wasn’st Entrely Convincing, but he took a stab at explaining the change:
“We had started even before what have been haaded to the actor happy The comics for decades and decauses of the fox Started Talking with Robert [Downey Jr.] About This Audacious Idea Before ‘Ant-Man 3’ Even came out. It was a long plan that we had, to take one of our greenst characters and utilize one of our greenst actors. “
What’s Next for Marvel?
As mentioned, ‘The fantastic four: first steps’ lands in theaters on Friday.
Next up in terms of movies is ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ (Out next summer) and the one-to-punch of ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ (December 2026) and ‘Avengers: secret wars’ (December 2027).
Pedro pascal as reed Richards/Mister Fantastic in 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios ‘The fantastic four: First Steps’. Photo by jay maidment. © 2025 20th Century Studios / © and ™ 2025 marvel.
