In an interview with Newsarama, Stan Lee has shared his thoughts on Marvel becoming a part of Disney, the upcoming movies from the studio, how he feels about the Spider-Man reboot, Comic Con and more! Here are some of the best parts from the interview but follow the link at the bottom of the page for more!
On Marvel Joining The Disney Empire:
"I always likened our company to Disney. I felt, people loved the Disney characters and they loved our characters. Why couldn’t we grow like that? With the success of the Spider-Man and X-Men movies, everyone realized, 'Hey, we have a treasure trove here. Let’s take advantage of it.' Now that my little company POW! is part of Disney – they took a small stake in our company – and now that we’re working with Disney and I have offices that I go to twice a week on the Disney lot, it’s almost like a childhood dream come true for me."
On Future Marvel Studios Movies:
"I think Dr. Strange will do very well. I think the Black Panther, eventually, will do very well. Would you believe they’re even talking about doing Ant-Man? I think that will be a movie people will want to see, just because it would be so different. The nice thing about the Marvel characters is that all of them are so unique; they can find their own audience. I don’t think people will feel, 'Oh, I’ve seen that before.' Every one of them has their own unique qualities."
On The Spider-Man Reboot:
"He works well depending on how well he’s written. Everything depends on the script. He could be fascinating as a teenager, discovering his powers. When I wrote him, in the early days, he was a teenager for a long time, for many, many issues. Finally, after a few years, we got a lot of fan mail saying, ‘hey, isn’t it about time he grew up?’ So I had him go out of high school and into college. Eventually, he graduated from college and got married, but ... a teenager with super powers. Certainly you can get a lot of great stories out of that premise."
On How He Feels About Comic Con:
"Well, it’s gotten so big, and it’s so...it’s so professional. Now you have people, top names in movies and television and video games, and toys. Everything you can think of. There almost isn’t room for comic books. It used to be, when all of this started, you’d see a million kids hanging around, with a few adults. Parents who had to go because their son or daughter was too young to come alone. Now you see a zillion adults with a few kids, because the adults wanted to come and couldn’t leave the son home alone. It’s almost like it’s for grownups now."
On His Documentary, With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story:
"No I don’t think so. There’s very little about my so-called career that I don’t know. I lived through it (laughs). But it was fun seeing a lot of that old stuff. I have an archive at the University of Wyoming. The people producing the documentary had gone to the archive and they found photos and interviews from 30, 40, 50 years that I had forgotten all about. So that was very interesting to me personally. I hope it is to the viewers. They’ve been filming it for two years, and finally they’re going to show it at the Con. I’m kind of...excited about that, I guess."
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