The Disney + series WandaVision is the first property to launch the fourth phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which will fit between big screen features and streaming series.
But with Disney planning to play up to ten Marvel Disney + shows in the coming years, is that a shame for wealth?
Follow WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, a series of spinoffs from captain America will debut this year at Disney + followed by Loki, based on Thorbad seed brother.
Not long ago Lucasfilm from Disney sought to imitate a spinoff strategy for a Marvel feature with its Star Wars movies. Unfortunately, this was interrupted after BO’s dismal results Solo: a Star Wars story; a very, very early situation. In the wake of Only, Disney is building the deepest universe of Star Wars streaming, with future programs like Boba Fett’s Book and Ahsoka, among others, during incubation Star Wars films in new worlds, of which Marvel boss Kevin Feige is overseeing one (Deadline recently broke the news that the photo is being written by Loki EP Michael Waldron).
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Deadline arrived some time with Feige this afternoon to ask him about how this new symbiotic relationship between his $ 1 billion comic book films and the Disney + streaming series would work, and whether the theater is bound to be short in the long run. term.
WandaVision, which will be released on January 15, marks the first time that a Marvel streaming series revolves around two Avengers, in this case Scarlet Witch and Vision (ABC TV series SHIELD agents starred Clark Gregg’s agent Phil Coulsen from previous MCU films. He died in Avengers and was brought back to life for the show. Mostly, except Captain Marvel, he practically stayed out of the last MCU films while the series was airing).
Exploring a popular franchise simultaneously between TV and cinema is nothing new, although it is not a perfect science. In 1998, Fox released the film to the big screen The X-Files: Fight the future ($ 189M) that built the show’s most recent TV season. And in 1999, Paramount released the film South Park: bigger, longer and uncut ($ 83M WW) while the animated series aired on Comedy Central. Neither of them were massive blockbusters, but neither did they cause any general damage to their respective franchises. X Files it would last another four years after the 1998 film, which generated a feature film from 2008 and two revival series in 2016 and 2018. South Park, which was first released in August 1997, is hired to be live until 2022. That said, the legacies of both IPs were defined by their TV shows.
Still, Marvel has succeeded in swinging into the fences and not being prevented from executing it. Consequently, this new call and response between Marvel films and streaming series may well be the next big thing when we get out of the pandemic.
TERM: Sidney Poitier is known for giving Denzel Washington the following advice: “If they see you for free all week, they won’t pay to see you over the weekend.” Which leads me to: Is there any concern about the excessive expansion of the MCU in streaming, that this will impact films at the box office?
KEVIN FEIGE: Well, it’s not free. And it is no different from the concerns I had in my early years at Marvel. Since Marvel’s rights were split between several studios, there would be several Marvel films per year. There was a year when there were three in a summer. The question was’ Wow, how is this going to last? How will it survive? ‘And my answer then, when I had no control over anything, was “As long as they are different, as long as they are unique and some of the characters can intersect and the Marvel logo is in front”. But if they are unique and interesting stories, it doesn’t go out of style. Finding something interesting and unique to watch at home and eventually going back to the cinema is how we escape, how we learn and how we grow. It is our job as storytellers to use this format and tell different and interesting stories that are based on 80 years of incredible fictional narrative from Marvel comics and can explore all different genres. A half-hour black and white sitcom is very different from everything we’ve done before. It turns out that he starred in two Avengers and has the Marvel logo on him, but it’s totally unique and that’s what we were working on for Disney + and Phase 4 features until we finished Endgame.
TERM: What’s so incredible about WandaVision is that it’s so avant-garde. You know something is going on under the varnish, but your satirical approach is very different. What gave you and Marvel creators confidence that fans would enter this rabbit hole with you? They are two very serious characters, and I would never have imagined them in anything satirical.
EAGGF: Trust is – I don’t know if I’m the most confident guy in the world. I think we always question things, but we also don’t allow fear to guide us in our choices. So, I believe there is a healthy balance somewhere. Since the beginning of Marvel Studios, we’ve always said that we don’t want to make a type of film. When Iron Man worked, the first thing we announced was a World War II movie (captain America) and an alien film Norse God (Thor) and then a team film (Avengers). Therefore, we always seek to take the success or goodwill we receive and use it to expand and grow to Guardians of the Galaxy, is on Black Panther and Captain Marvel. AND WandaVision it was just an extreme version of it and doing it in a way that will have answers and take the confusion, or the strangeness or avant-garde nature of it and start putting it in, as each episode is revealed week after week. But we have always been rewarded for making big swings and not necessarily repeating ourselves. And we had great confidence in those two actors playing these two characters and that they could do that for sure.
TERM: We know with Monica Rambeau in WandaVision, your character connects to Captain Marvel 2, and that the series connects to Doctor Strange in Multiverse of Madness. IT’S WandaVision a ramp for the rebirth of X-Men are you planning
EAGGF: In retrospect, in five years, if when we’re talking about everything that happened, everything can be a ramp for everything, specifically although, yes, Monica in Captain Marvel 2 and specifically for Wanda to join Doctor Strange in Multiverse of madness.
TERM: It was announced at Disney Investor Day that you would not reshape another actor in the role of T’Challa to Black Panther 2 after the death of Chadwick Boseman. Can you tell us more about that? Will this be similar to what was done in Tron, where a young Jeff Bridges was replicated via CG? Or is this a totally different angle on Black Panther 2? There are rumors that it will have a feminine angle.
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EAGGF: Much of the comics and that first film is the world of Wakanda. Wakanda is a place to explore more with characters and different subcultures. This was always and initially the main focus of the next story. We are not going to have a CG Chadwick and we are not going to reformulate T’Challa. Ryan Coogler is working very hard now on the script with all the respect, love and genius that he has, which gives us great comfort, so it was always about the advancement of mythology and the inspiration of Wakanda. There is also the task of honoring and respecting Chad’s continuing learning and teaching.
TERM: Do you think Black Widow are you going to have a movie release or are you going to Disney +? And what is your opinion about sending certain films for streaming? Does this damage the brand or do you think the public is smart enough to decipher that we are the exception to a pandemic and that we will eventually return to the cinema?
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EAGGF: If I had a crystal ball, I would look at it and tell it. I do not. All I can say is that, for the past three years, Bob Iger brought me to his office and talked about a streaming platform that would become Disney + and asked us to start working on programs for her. Our long-term plan was to have the MCU and the narrative woven between big weekly episodic swings at Disney + and big swings in theaters. It is my great hope that this will continue. Don’t ask me week after week what will happen in this world, I have no idea and I don’t want to guess. Everything we did at Marvel Studios was based on “Okay, if everything goes smoothly, here’s what we would like to do”. And until last year, things were going very well. And it is my hope that the world will get back on track and we will all return to the cinemas, and that people will see and experience week by week for the low monthly rate of Disney + of what we are bringing there, and that they will be excited to get along with people again in real life and sit with strangers and share an experience on the big screen.
TERM: Will you relive any Netflix Marvel series as Luke Cage or Jessica Jones, etc. or is that age completely over?
EAGGF: Well, you certainly saw what we announced at Comic-Con a year and a half ago and at Disney Investor Day a few weeks ago, so that’s our focus. But I’ve been at Marvel long enough to never say anything about anything.