14 posts tagged ‘kevin feige’
Robert Downey Jr. Wishes His MCU Work Got More Real Recognition
Gizmodo,
The MCU started with Robert Downey Jr.’s career-defining turn as Iron Man all the way back in 2008. Over the next 11 years, Downey would reprise the role for numerous sequels and team-ups, and now that he’s had some distance from the whole shebang, he thinks his Marvel tenure was intentionally overlooked. Read more...
Loki creator Michael Waldron to hopefully get the next two Avengers movies back on track
AV Club,
It looks like Marvel Studios’ plans for the end of the MCU’s “Phase Six” are solidifying behind the scenes… or they’re undergoing even more upheaval and are less solid than ever before. It’s really impossible to tell, and the only person who probably can is Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige—and since he’s too busy… Read more...
Taika Waititi agreed to Thor because he "was poor"
Marvel’s habit of poaching talented young writer-directors for their films has gone from something largely positive (cultivating diverse up-and-coming artists) to something seen as negative (wasting years of the lives of potential new auteurs on paint-by-the-numbers franchise filmmaking). Taika Waititi was an early… Read more...
Jon Hamm doesn't know why Jon Hamm isn't in the MCU, either
Jon Hamm has been having a pretty good year over in the world of TV: After being a big part of the much-talked-about (if also frequently ridiculed) recent season of The Morning Show, he’s now cruised into a starring role in the fifth season of FX’s Fargo, giving an instantly mesmerizing (and, uh, eye-catching) role as… Read more...
Star Wars enters a new era as Ahsoka's Dave Filoni becomes Chief Creative Officer
To some Star Wars fans, Clone Wars architect Dave Filoni is the second-coming of George Lucas—the one man who can be trusted with Star Wars lore now that Disney is running things. To others, he represents nearly all of the franchise’s silliest missteps, pulling Star Wars away from the stories and characters of the… Read more...
It’s not Iman Vellani’s problem that The Marvels is a bomb
Marvel’s The Marvels is having a pretty lousy time at the box office, having already gotten the worst opening in MCU history and then a huge drop-off in its second week, but star Iman Vellani—who plays Ms. Marvel, a.k.a. Kamala Khan—isn’t phased by it. In fact, it sounds like she doesn’t particularly care about the… Read more...
Iman Vellani Details Her X-Men Comics Writing Process
Finally, Iman Vellani can geek out publicly about going from Marvel fan to Ms. Marvel and The Marvels star to Marvel Comics writer. Read more...
The Nerdiest Lego Gifts, Big and Small
The holidays are coming, and no matter your age, that can often mean sitting down after all your gifts are unwrapped, surrounding yourself with bags of plastic bricks, and building a new Lego set. To help you become the most popular gift giver of 2023, we’ve rounded up our favorite sets of the year—from fancy… Read more...