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| IRON MAN 4, Ultron, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY |
Marvel CEO Kevin Feige discusses Iron Man 4, Ultron, Guadians of the Galaxy and more on the Chris Hardwick Nerdist podcast, as a guest to promote Marvel's Thor: The Dark World.
Kevin Feige on if Marvel Studios views Guardians of the Galaxy as a risk?
"I
don't think it's going out on a limb anymore than the first Iron Man
was. Frankly, it's less because the entire fate of the studio hinged on
that...that and Incredible Hulk. And at the time, the Incredible Hulk
felt like, ok, everyone knows the Hulk, [he's] the popular character,
it's this Iron Man thing that's the risk."
On why some superhero movies are better than others.
"I
think there are a million reasons but what we [at Marvel Studios]
distilled it down to was 'a lack of confidence in the underlying source
material.' And that the source material itself is the selling point,
being the most interesting thing about it. So when you look at the cast
of most of our movies, they're not the hottest marquee star of the day.
They are now in the sequels because if the movie works, Robert Downey
Jr. is now the biggest star in the world."
On the concept of trilogies. Feige says the idea was that there was always going to be more Iron Man movies after Iron Man 3.
"Somebody
coined online the term threequel-itis. And I think you can look at a
few of our movies, the Marvel movies, as having threequel-itis [namely]
Spider-Man 3, X-Men 3 and there are a million reasons for all of that
but I wanted to avoid that on Iron Man 3. And I thought we had a secret
weapon which was The Avengers coming between Iron Man 2 and Iron Man 3.
Never mind how successful The Avengers was, we couldn't have predicted
that, it would be foolish to predict that level of success. But I
thought it would be good because it would be a bit of a palate cleanser
between Iron Man 2 and Iron Man 3 and allow you to not just go, 'Oh,
well here's the culmination of a trilogy. And if we're culminating a
trilogy then these are the types of things that happen when you
culminate a trilogy. Maybe it's the last one, maybe it's...' We knew it
wouldn't be the last one and [with] Avengers, it was really a Part Four.
And if you look at some successful Part Fours, sometimes they're better
than threes because they're liberated in a sense from [having to]
complete a beginning, middle and end. And they do, 'Lets go find whales
in San Francisco in 1986.'"
On Marvel Comics
continuity and Marvel Cinematic Universe continuity and having Ultron be
created by someone other than Henry Pym aka Ant-Man.
"It's
interesting because now, we're in our 10th or 11th or 12th movie within
the MCU, Marvel Cinematic Universe continuity, and it is approaching a
time where we're saying, 'In the comics, [the characters] had been doing
certain things at this point which is why they had this person do this
thing'. If we did that now, it wouldn't make any sense because we've
done enough things that are unique in these other movies that we need to
now start being true, not just to the comic continuity; which again,
we've never [100%] been true to - that's always been the inspiration.
Now we have to be true to our own continuity. So certainly in the case
of Ultron, there are a few characters in the franchise who it would make
sense to have been involved in that creation [rather] than introducing a
new character out of nowhere to come and do it. And Edgar [Wright]
already has certain ideas in place for the [Ant-Man] characters, going
back to Comic-Con 2006 that we wanted to maintain."
- See more at: http://www.superheromoviesnews.com/2013/11/kevin-feige-talks-iron-man-4-ultron.html#sthash.ZQ0PC0QT.dpuf
Marvel CEO Kevin Feige discusses Iron Man 4, Ultron, Guadians of the Galaxy and more on the Chris Hardwick Nerdist podcast, as a guest to promote Marvel's Thor: The Dark World.
Kevin Feige on if Marvel Studios views Guardians of the Galaxy as a risk?
"I
don't think it's going out on a limb anymore than the first Iron Man
was. Frankly, it's less because the entire fate of the studio hinged on
that...that and Incredible Hulk. And at the time, the Incredible Hulk
felt like, ok, everyone knows the Hulk, [he's] the popular character,
it's this Iron Man thing that's the risk."
On why some superhero movies are better than others.
"I
think there are a million reasons but what we [at Marvel Studios]
distilled it down to was 'a lack of confidence in the underlying source
material.' And that the source material itself is the selling point,
being the most interesting thing about it. So when you look at the cast
of most of our movies, they're not the hottest marquee star of the day.
They are now in the sequels because if the movie works, Robert Downey
Jr. is now the biggest star in the world."
On the concept of trilogies. Feige says the idea was that there was always going to be more Iron Man movies after Iron Man 3.
"Somebody
coined online the term threequel-itis. And I think you can look at a
few of our movies, the Marvel movies, as having threequel-itis [namely]
Spider-Man 3, X-Men 3 and there are a million reasons for all of that
but I wanted to avoid that on Iron Man 3. And I thought we had a secret
weapon which was The Avengers coming between Iron Man 2 and Iron Man 3.
Never mind how successful The Avengers was, we couldn't have predicted
that, it would be foolish to predict that level of success. But I
thought it would be good because it would be a bit of a palate cleanser
between Iron Man 2 and Iron Man 3 and allow you to not just go, 'Oh,
well here's the culmination of a trilogy. And if we're culminating a
trilogy then these are the types of things that happen when you
culminate a trilogy. Maybe it's the last one, maybe it's...' We knew it
wouldn't be the last one and [with] Avengers, it was really a Part Four.
And if you look at some successful Part Fours, sometimes they're better
than threes because they're liberated in a sense from [having to]
complete a beginning, middle and end. And they do, 'Lets go find whales
in San Francisco in 1986.'"
On Marvel Comics
continuity and Marvel Cinematic Universe continuity and having Ultron be
created by someone other than Henry Pym aka Ant-Man.
"It's
interesting because now, we're in our 10th or 11th or 12th movie within
the MCU, Marvel Cinematic Universe continuity, and it is approaching a
time where we're saying, 'In the comics, [the characters] had been doing
certain things at this point which is why they had this person do this
thing'. If we did that now, it wouldn't make any sense because we've
done enough things that are unique in these other movies that we need to
now start being true, not just to the comic continuity; which again,
we've never [100%] been true to - that's always been the inspiration.
Now we have to be true to our own continuity. So certainly in the case
of Ultron, there are a few characters in the franchise who it would make
sense to have been involved in that creation [rather] than introducing a
new character out of nowhere to come and do it. And Edgar [Wright]
already has certain ideas in place for the [Ant-Man] characters, going
back to Comic-Con 2006 that we wanted to maintain."
- See more at: http://www.superheromoviesnews.com/2013/11/kevin-feige-talks-iron-man-4-ultron.html#sthash.ZQ0PC0QT.dpuf
Marvel CEO Kevin Feige discusses Iron Man 4, Ultron, Guadians of the Galaxy and more on the Chris Hardwick Nerdist podcast, as a guest to promote Marvel's Thor: The Dark World.
Kevin Feige on if Marvel Studios views Guardians of the Galaxy as a risk?
"I
don't think it's going out on a limb anymore than the first Iron Man
was. Frankly, it's less because the entire fate of the studio hinged on
that...that and Incredible Hulk. And at the time, the Incredible Hulk
felt like, ok, everyone knows the Hulk, [he's] the popular character,
it's this Iron Man thing that's the risk."
On why some superhero movies are better than others.
"I
think there are a million reasons but what we [at Marvel Studios]
distilled it down to was 'a lack of confidence in the underlying source
material.' And that the source material itself is the selling point,
being the most interesting thing about it. So when you look at the cast
of most of our movies, they're not the hottest marquee star of the day.
They are now in the sequels because if the movie works, Robert Downey
Jr. is now the biggest star in the world."
On the concept of trilogies. Feige says the idea was that there was always going to be more Iron Man movies after Iron Man 3.
"Somebody
coined online the term threequel-itis. And I think you can look at a
few of our movies, the Marvel movies, as having threequel-itis [namely]
Spider-Man 3, X-Men 3 and there are a million reasons for all of that
but I wanted to avoid that on Iron Man 3. And I thought we had a secret
weapon which was The Avengers coming between Iron Man 2 and Iron Man 3.
Never mind how successful The Avengers was, we couldn't have predicted
that, it would be foolish to predict that level of success. But I
thought it would be good because it would be a bit of a palate cleanser
between Iron Man 2 and Iron Man 3 and allow you to not just go, 'Oh,
well here's the culmination of a trilogy. And if we're culminating a
trilogy then these are the types of things that happen when you
culminate a trilogy. Maybe it's the last one, maybe it's...' We knew it
wouldn't be the last one and [with] Avengers, it was really a Part Four.
And if you look at some successful Part Fours, sometimes they're better
than threes because they're liberated in a sense from [having to]
complete a beginning, middle and end. And they do, 'Lets go find whales
in San Francisco in 1986.'"
On Marvel Comics
continuity and Marvel Cinematic Universe continuity and having Ultron be
created by someone other than Henry Pym aka Ant-Man.
"It's
interesting because now, we're in our 10th or 11th or 12th movie within
the MCU, Marvel Cinematic Universe continuity, and it is approaching a
time where we're saying, 'In the comics, [the characters] had been doing
certain things at this point which is why they had this person do this
thing'. If we did that now, it wouldn't make any sense because we've
done enough things that are unique in these other movies that we need to
now start being true, not just to the comic continuity; which again,
we've never [100%] been true to - that's always been the inspiration.
Now we have to be true to our own continuity. So certainly in the case
of Ultron, there are a few characters in the franchise who it would make
sense to have been involved in that creation [rather] than introducing a
new character out of nowhere to come and do it. And Edgar [Wright]
already has certain ideas in place for the [Ant-Man] characters, going
back to Comic-Con 2006 that we wanted to maintain."
- See more at: http://www.superheromoviesnews.com/2013/11/kevin-feige-talks-iron-man-4-ultron.html#sthash.ZQ0PC0QT.dpuf
Marvel CEO
Kevin Feige discusses Iron Man 4, Ultron, Guadians of the Galaxy
and more on the Chris Hardwick Nerdist podcast, as a guest to promote Marvel's Thor: The Dark World.
