Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige Loves His Lego Mini-Figure, But Not What Employees Did With It

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You cognize Deadpool & Wolverine is simply a large deal if Kevin Feige is retired determination speaking astir it. In the past, Feige, the president of Marvel Studios, would talk to the property for astir each Marvel project. Since Avengers: Endgame though, that’s been dialed backmost greatly. So that Feige was backmost astatine it for this monolithic merchandise gives you conscionable a hint of what is astatine involvement for him and Marvel successful general.

Chatting with io9, Feige discussed the interaction Deadpool & Wolverine is going to person connected the MCU, the mode it incorporates Logan, and galore teases of aboriginal projects, specified arsenic the adjacent Tom Holland Spider-Man movie, Avengers 5 and 6, and the next live-action X-Men project. But Feige is besides a immense artifact collector, truthful we besides took a Hail Mary to spot what helium thought of precocious being immortalized successful Lego. He didn’t disappoint. Here’s our afloat chat with Kevin Feige.

Germain Lussier, io9: So 2017, Disney acquires Fox. In 2018, Deadpool 2 came out. What are you reasoning watching that movie? Are you thinking, “We’ll ne'er get to usage this guy” oregon “What tin we bash to usage this guy?”

Kevin Feige: I was reasoning the aforesaid happening I was reasoning astir the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, that we’d ne'er beryllium capable to usage them. Yeah. Because that was earlier the merchantability you said, right?

io9: The merchantability was 2017 and it did get finalized a small later, but I figured possibly astir that clip you started reasoning astir it.

Feige: I don’t… no, I don’t deliberation so. I deliberation we were successful the midst of trying to decorativeness Infinity War and Endgame. And truthful possibly we knew that those characters mightiness beryllium coming our mode sometime, but until something’s really successful our hands, we don’t see it real. So I retrieve conscionable watching that movie and having a bully time, but not reasoning astir thing different than Infinity War and Endgame [laughs].

io9: Right, sure. Kind of big. So without spoiling anything, I spot successful the archetypal 40 minutes of this movie, the movie deals with its links to Logan precise aboriginal on. So is what happens present successful this movie ever however that worked out, oregon were determination different versions of however it was going to incorporated it?

Feige: How it was going to incorporated Logan itself?

io9: Yes. The events of Logan.

Feige: There were a batch of incarnations of the movie but, arsenic tons of radical person talked astir recently, we didn’t privation to undo thing from that movie, Logan. We didn’t privation to erase it. We didn’t privation to, successful immoderate way, besmirch the grant of that large feature. So what you spot successful the movie was ever benignant of the thought of however to navigate that.

io9: So connected a standard of 1-10 successful presumption of wide MCU impact, if similar Endgame is simply a 10, Infinity War is simply a 9, what would you springiness Deadpool & Wolverine and why?

Feige: Infinity War is simply a 9?

io9: Well, yeah, it’s big, but they’ll travel back.

Feige: All right. Well, I was going to accidental 10, but if Infinity War is simply a 9, past I don’t know. 8?

io9: Okay. Now with Comic-Con coming up, I cognize we’ll astir apt beryllium learning a batch successful the coming days successful presumption of big-picture stuff, but however overmuch would you accidental that program has changed since 2022 erstwhile you announced Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars?

Feige: I deliberation it’s harmless to accidental it’s changed. And I look guardant to benignant of clarifying with radical however that is.

io9: Okay. This movie is simply a large multiverse movie and it made maine funny astir different multiverse movie, Spider-Man. Can you accidental thing astir what’s going connected with the adjacent Spider-Man?

Feige: Amy [Pascal] and I are moving connected it. We person writers who are going to beryllium delivering america a draught comparatively soon.

io9: That’s good. Phase Four was mostly astir introducing caller characters to the MCU. And I cognize with upcoming Avengers movies, we person a accidental to spot a batch of them. Do you deliberation determination are immoderate that we won’t ever spot again?

Feige: I seldom talk successful absolutes similar that, right? The conception of ne'er ever seeing idiosyncratic again. We’ve got Tim Blake Nelson successful a movie coming up adjacent year, right? So I ne'er speech successful absolutes similar that. But the information is, you know, we’re going to archer a communicative successful these Avengers movies, and determination won’t beryllium country for 100,000 characters successful it. So choices volition person to beryllium made, that’s for sure. But that doesn’t mean you won’t ever spot anybody ever again.

io9: And obviously, the biggest happening that’s happened since we past spoke is you got your ain Lego minifigure [holds up minifigure].

Feige: Yes! [laughs]

io9: So I americium wondering, I cognize you’re a large artifact collector. What was this like? Did you person immoderate accidental successful the accessories? How did it each travel about?

Feige: I don’t retrieve if I had a say. I deliberation I’m beauteous predictable successful my wardrobe. I was precise honored though. And I thought it was beauteous cool. I volition accidental we have—or astatine 1 constituent successful the bureau successful the Marvel Studios offices, we had—the entire Avengers Tower displayed. And they had my small fig successful determination determination holding a shawarma and a blistery dog. And I said, “Do I devour that overmuch that I’m holding some those things?” Like I deliberation coffee, I similar coffee. But wherefore bash I person to person a shawarma and a blistery dog? That seemed precise gluttonous successful my opinion.

io9: Well, thankfully, there’s the coffee. And this is my past thing. I cognize this movie is going to acceptable up immoderate we get to spot with the X-Men. So we’ll larn much astir that adjacent week and beyond. But that’s a comic that has truthful galore antithetic teams and antithetic tones. How does the determination process spell to constrictive down, like, what squad you’re going to usage and what code you’re going to have?

Feige: There’s a operation we usage often astatine Marvel, which is “It’s an embarrassment of riches.” Right? And determination are a batch of large X-Men characters successful the Deadpool & Wolverine film. There are a batch of large X-Men characters successful each of the Fox versions of the X-Men films. And determination are a batch of large X-Men characters that person ne'er gone connected the large screen. So I deliberation arsenic we ever effort to bash arsenic we did erstwhile we made the statement with Sony for Spider-Man, you astir apt spot a premix of characters you’ve seen earlier and characters you’ve ne'er seen before. I deliberation the occurrence of X-Men ’97 was truly breathtaking for america to spot radical revisit and reconnect with that world. And situation I say, the soap opera elements of that world, which is 1 of the things that’s truthful breathtaking to america astir jumping into it yet successful the MCU.

Deadpool & Wolverine is successful theaters July 26.

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