July 2000 was the year when I was four years old Kevin Feige First seen at San Diego Comic-Con. At that time, he had just driven to this city with his friends and was still a few days away from officially working for Marvel. Jeff Jones.
time flies. At the time, Kevin was a young producer ready to go all-in on the superhero world. I wonder if he knew the impact he would have all these years later. Twenty-five years have passed, and so has the film’s legacy.
Currently, Feige’s movies have grossed more than $30 billion at the box office. During a panel with CB Cebulski in Hall H at Comic-Con, he revealed his love for pop culture, comic books, and the connection between Marvel comics and movies. How they have ignited a new generation of fans and will continue to do so into the future.
After watching movies throughout the 1980s, he fell in love with the art form. His obsession then expanded to collecting. “It’s a disease, a disease,” said Fitch, who has been in love with the Star Wars toys, dig a sarlacc pit in his backyard to play with, then buy StarCraft Toys for playmates. “Let’s hear it for our playmates StarCraft action figures. He later joked: “You don’t talk about this in Hall H.”
In 1995, when Kenner brought back Star Wars toys, Fitch suddenly realized that this wasn’t just his childhood. This will be his whole life. I do believe that most of us would love to turn our childhood dreams into reality, just like Kevin Feige has done in movies like the Marvel Universe. Who doesn’t wish the universe was at your fingertips?
Feige was already very familiar with the universe before working exclusively for Marvel. Early in his career, he worked on the 2000 X-Men movie and returned to Comic-Con six years later with the newly formed Marvel Studios. He would go on to tease Iron Man, Captain America, and the potential of a shared universe.
“This is our secret weapon,” Keger said. “At the time, Fox had X-Men, Fantastic Four and Daredevil. Sony had Spider-Man. Universal had the Hulk, and a lot of the ‘big’ characters were taken away. So when we become our own studio…there’s this notion that we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel.
“We know that’s not the case. Additionally, we can do something that no other studio can do, which is achieve interconnectivity. That’s going to be our secret sauce, and that’s really our goal, to emulate it on the big screen for the first time The Marvel Universe on the pages of comics I bet you can guess what happened next.
The rest of the panel showed examples of Feige and his fellow filmmakers taking images directly from comic books and placing them on the big screen. Captain America punches Hitler, or Thanos roars.
“It’s funny, CB,” Feige said. “I think it would be cool if Disney+ had a feature where you could click on a movie and see the video that inspired it.” I think that’s something that a lot of us Features that everyone wants to have.
Marvel Studios now has some control over every character in the universe. Feige did talk about things that were too much even for him. “I still think the most obscure character is a character named Woodgod, and if we do that, maybe we’ve gone too far.” Woodgod is a 1970s comic book character who is human /animal hybrid who attempts to create a society of creatures like himself.
At the end of the panel, Cebuluski asked Fitch about his hat: “My son saw it and said ‘Is that a Walmart?'” Fitch said, “No, it’s not a Walmart. It’s a thunderbolt hat. This is the bullet that marks the asterisk at the end. We still don’t know the purpose behind it.
What happens next? We know Marvel isn’t afraid to change the titles of their movies or shows. A good example is The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which they changed to Captain America and the Winter Soldier.
Already staying in Hall H Thunder* announcement, I know I can’t wait to see what they have in store for us. I started this journey iron ManYears after it was released, of course, but I found myself attending every opening night thereafter and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
