Kevin Feige Told His Marvel and Geek Origin Story at Comic-Con 2024

The archetypal clip Kevin Feige came to San Diego Comic-Con, helium was specified days distant from officially moving for Marvel. It was July 2000, and with a commencement day successful August, the young shaper drove down to the normal with his friend, Geoff Johns. There he bought a bunch of trades getting acceptable to perpetrate afloat to a satellite of superhero movies.

Now, astir 25 years later, Feige’s films person grossed implicit $30 cardinal and, connected the eve of his latest mega Hall H panel, he spoke with Marvel Comics EIC C.B. Cebulski astir their emotion of popular culture, comic books, and the nexus betwixt Marvel Comics and Marvel movies.

After talking astir however going to the movies each done the 1980s made him autumn successful emotion with the creation form, Feige moved to 1 of his different obsessions: collecting. “It’s an illness, a sickness,” Feige said. He talked astir however overmuch helium loved Star Wars toys increasing up, digging a Sarlacc Pit successful his backyard to play, and aboriginal started buying Star Trek toys from Playmates. “Let’s perceive it for Playmates Star Trek enactment figures,” helium joked. “You don’t speech astir that successful Hall H.”

However, it was successful 1995 erstwhile Kenner brought backmost Star Wars toys that Feige said helium had a unspeakable realization. “That’s erstwhile I realized, ‘Oh, this volition not person been conscionable my childhood, this is going to beryllium my full life.’”

The aforesaid could beryllium said for Marvel. Before Feige worked exclusively for Marvel, helium was already precise acquainted with the universe. He worked connected the 2000 X-Men movie aboriginal connected his vocation and six years later, would instrumentality to Comic-Con with the recently formed Marvel Studios. There helium teased fans with upcoming movies for Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and yes, the imaginable for a shared universe.

“It was our concealed weapon,” Feige said. “At the clip Fox has the X-Men, Fantastic Four and Daredevil. Sony had Spider-Man. Universal had Hulk and galore of the “Big” characters were taken. So erstwhile we became our ain studio…there was a conception that we were scraping the bottommost of the barrel. We knew that wasn’t the case. Also, we could bash thing nary of those different studios could bash which was bash this interconnectivity. That would beryllium our concealed limb and that would truly beryllium our goal, for the archetypal time, emulating the Marvel Universe from the comic leafage connected the large screen.” The rest, arsenic they say, is history.

The sheet continued to amusement instances wherever Feige and his filmmakers person straight lifted images from comic publication panels – specified arsenic Captain America punching Hitler, oregon Thanos’ snap, which was highly entertaining. “This is fun, C.B.,” Feige said. “I deliberation it would beryllium chill if Disney+ had a diagnostic wherever you could during the movie deed it and spot the framework that inspired it.”

And portion Marvel Studios now, finally, has immoderate power implicit each azygous quality successful the universe, determination is 1 wherever Feige thinks, if helium gets to that, it’ll beryllium excessively much. “The 1 that I inactive deliberation is the astir obscure and I deliberation if we ever get to that possibly we’ve gone excessively acold is simply a quality named Woodgod,” helium said.

Woodgod–an obscure ’70s comics character, a human/animal hybrid that tried to make a nine of creatures similar himself–almost surely won’t beryllium appearing successful a marque caller comic announced astatine the panel. It’s a effect of Marvel Studios influencing the comics (when it’s usually vice versa) pursuing the TVA and the household of Miss Minutes including Sir Seconds and Doc Clock. Read much astir that here.

Finally, the sheet ended with Cebulski asking Feige astir his hat. Feige is known to deterioration a chapeau for his adjacent movie and since Deadpool & Wolverine is present out, what was helium wearing now? “My lad saw it and said ‘Is that Wal-Mart?'” Feige said. “No it’s not Wal-Mart. This is simply a Thunderbolts hat. And that is bullets making up the asterisk astatine the extremity of the logo.”

A tease for what’s next.  Check backmost Saturday evening for the different Kevin Feige Comic-Con panel, Marvel Studios successful Hall H.

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