Kevin Feige Offers Revealing Look How Marvel Comics Influences The MCU

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.

In the early 2000’s, no one would’ve thought a connected live action cinematic universe would’ve worked. In fact every big time executive in Hollywood at the time scoffed at the idea.

It seemed like an impossible feat.

Nonetheless, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige came along and proved them all wrong.

Kevin Feige Offers Revealing Look Into How Marvel Comics Influences The MCU

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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.

Furthermore, while appearing on The Movie Business Podcast, Kevin Feige has explained how the MCU’s been guided throughout the years.

It all comes down to the 80+ years of source material from the original comic books.

Kevin Feige Offers Revealing Look How Marvel Comics Influences The MCU

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The producer explained:

“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.”

In addition, Feige even expressed his views on the risk of ‘Superhero Fatigue’ that many have feared over the years. Directors like Steven Spielberg have predicted that superhero movies will eventually “go the way of the western.”

Discussing his thoughts on the subject, Feige said:

“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?'”

All in all, he mostly credited the MCU’s success to its employees and their “tremendous amount of hard work.”

He reveals that all the hard work that goes on behind the scenes comes down to passion for the franchise.

He explained:

”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.