Written By Kieran Bugg
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Kevin Feige has explained how over 80 years of Marvel Comics has helped influence each phase of the MCU.
Kevin Feige Offers Revealing Look Into How Marvel Comics Influences The MCU
Kicking off with Iron Man and eventually culminating with The Avengers, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is now a worldwide phenomenon.
Moreover, the MCU has gone on to become the highest-grossing movie franchise in history earning $28.279 billion globally.
Many other studios have attempted to follow in Marvel’s footsteps with their own cinematic universes. However, none have managed to reach the same level of success.
Kevin Feige Offers Revealing Look How Marvel Comics Influences The MCU
“Each of our sagas are broken into phases and we now find ourselves on the precipice of Phase Two of the Multiverse Saga, and there are two ways to do it. One, we look at an overarching narrative, always using the comics and the 80-plus years of Marvel comic history as our guide of what general, long-term story we want to do. But really, it comes down to each individual film or series, and what type of genre we want to do.”
“To me it was akin to saying after Gone With The Wind, ‘Well how many more movies can be made off of novels? Do you think the audience will sour on movies being adapted from books?'”
”The only thing that can power that hard work is passion, and thankfully that’s what we have at Marvel Studios in spades.”
In less than a decade, Kevin Feige quickly became the most prominent and successful figures in Hollywood.
This is the same guy who got Avi Arad his coffee on the set of the original X-Men and Spider-Man movies.
Legendary.