Asked about the exponential number of superhero films and series, Kevin Feige, the boss of Marvel, gives his opinion.
Are there too many superhero movies? Will viewers get tired of it? Kevin Feige doesn’t think so. During the podcast The Movie Business Podcastthe Marvel boss said there are more than 80 years of groundbreaking stories told in Marvel comics that can be used as a basis for different genres.
He specifies : “I’ve been with Marvel Studios for over 22 years, and most people have been there for at least 10 years. As early as my second year at Marvel, people were like, “How long is this going to last? Is this comic book movie craze going to end? I didn’t really understand the question..
For me, it was like saying, “After Gone with the Wind, how many more movies can you make from novels? Do you think audiences are going to get tired of movies based on books?”
You would never ask that because most people understand that a book can tell all kinds of stories. So it all depends on the story you’re translating. Those who don’t read comics don’t understand that it’s exactly the same for comics.”
The boss of the House of Ideas refers to the richness of the Marvel comics catalog launched in 1939. There are a multitude of stories, adaptable to cinema in different genres.
Kevin Feige explains as follows:There are 80 years of stories told in Marvel comics. They are interesting, rich in emotion and revolutionary. Our great privilege is to be able to adapt them to the cinema. We can translate them into different genres, and choose what kinds of films we want to make.“
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He concludes : “I’ve found over the course of my career that if we tell the story right and adapt it in a way that audiences still follow us, over 22 years later, we can make all types of movies.”
And the box office results of the latest Marvel feature films seem to attest to the producer’s claims since Spider-Man: No Way Home totaled $1.9 billion at the worldwide box office, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness brought in $955 million. , Thor: Love and Thunder, 760 million greenbacks and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has, to date, accumulated $840 million worldwide.
3 Marvel feature films are announced for 2023: An-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania on February 15, Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, on May 3, and The Marvels on July 26.