Kevin Feige Thinks That Audiences Won't Tire Of The Superhero Genre
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When he appeared on The Movie Business Podcast Kevin Feige took a moment to speak candidly on the future of the budding genre of “superhero” films claiming there are eighty years of stories to tell from Marvel comics.
“From probably my second year at Marvel, people were asking, ‘Well, how long is this going to last? Is this fad of comic book movies going to end?’” Feige said. He explained to the host, Jason E. Squire, “I didn’t really understand the question. Because to me, it was akin to saying after ‘Gone With the Wind,’ ‘Well, how many more movies can be made off novels? Do you think the audience will sour on movies being adapted from books?’ You would never ask that because there’s an inherent understanding among most people that a book can be anything. A novel can have any type of story whatsoever. So it all depends on what story you’re translating.”
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Feige said, “There’s eighty years of the most interesting, emotional, groundbreaking stories that have been told in the Marvel comics, and it is our privilege to be able to take what we have and adapt them.” He expects the genre to break off into separate sub-genres of American cinema.
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Feige finished by saying, “I found that if we tell the story right, and we adapt them in a way that the audience still — knock on wood so far — is following us along twenty-two plus years later…we can [make] any types of movies that share two things: the Marvel Studios logo above the title and a seed of an idea from our publishing history.”
Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe begins on February 16, 2023, with the release of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
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Source: Variety
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