Kevin Feige is a fraud. He either believes in being true to the source materials he once professed, or he’s all in on the appropriation of well established characters for the sake of the woke diversity and inclusion crowd. If Feige believes in the source material, then he’s as fake as they come, and has allowed activists within the company to commandeer characters for their own political agendas. If he’s one with the diversity and inclusion crowd, then he was a wolf in sheep’s clothing all along, and has given fans the biggest slap in the face with his dishonesty. To claim that you are a person who looks to Richard Donner for your inspiration for everyone of your MCU movies that comes out, is laughable and wholeheartedly ridiculous. If that’s actually true, I would be replaying your interview everyday, because every movie from Captain Marvel forward, has been an absolute dishonoring to the integrity of their source material.
Superman: The Movie is the Archetype that All Studios Should Follow
At a 2017 tribute to Richard Donner, Feige claimed that Richard Donner’s ‘Superman: The Movie’ was the archetype of what a superhero movie should aspire to be, and that he made sure it was watched before every MCU movie that was made.
“The film’s Dick made inspired me to even want to go down that track. And, of course, in particular Superman the movie is still to this day the archetype of the perfect superhero film origin story. And we watch it before we make almost any one of our films and that’s been the case for the past 17 years since I left the fold to go work for Marvel.”
“There was word — Dick has a very good vocabulary — and there was a word that I was never able to pronounce, but I always understood, which was verisimilitude. And he used that word while making Superman I. And I first learned that not because it’s hanging above Dick’s office, which it was for many years, but because I saw him talking about it in the ABC “Making of Superman Special” when I was a kid. And it basically means be truthful, honor the source material, believe in it, take it seriously, and that is what we strive to do.”
If anyone at Marvel Studios had an ounce of integrity left when it came to the sanctity of the Marvel characters they are defiling with absolute drivel they are producing, they would be watching ‘Superman: The Movie’ on a daily basis, to see how a well written character can be successful, not only at the box office, but with merchandise as well. Are any fans clamoring for She-Hulk, Sam Wilson Captain America, Kate Bishop Hawkeye, or Eternals merchandise?
Kevin Feige’s MCU Lacks Creativity and Honesty
In all honesty, Kevin Feige’s reckless appropriation of well established characters for the sake of promoting diversity and inclusion is an admission of a lack of creativity, cowardice, or both. It’s lazy editing of characters like Captain America, Iron Man, Black Panther, or Hawkeye, to race or gender swap them because it quickly checks all the boxes that would appease the activist left that you’re bending the knee to. How about writing some well crafted stories, by using the decades worth of scripted material you literally have at your beck and call.
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Kevin Feige Should Have Verisimilitude Pinned on Every Wall of His Office
No one is watching anything from phase 4 at the box office or on Disney Plus. And it’s not just because everything is necessarily woke, it’s because the stories suck and fans are bored. Look at Thor Love and Thunder, Black Widow, Shang-Chi, The Eternals, Hawkeye, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, and She-Hulk, as evidence of how disinterested fans are in the yawn fest that has been phase 4. But Instead of Marvel actually admitting that there’s something wrong, and the method they are using to produce these flops, from hiring unknown and unqualified show runners, to people writing scripts that have no clue about the characters…they are blaming fans for their toxicity with every new release. Kevin Feige would be wise to revisit his old self from 2017, and actually heed the words of wisdom he spewed when talking about the genius of Richard Donner.
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Well said, a good read!