Recently, Disney CEO Bob Iger stated that he thinks Marvel Studios may have overextended themselves by producing television shows for Disney+. It's a sentiment that many MCU fans have echoed, as there's currently a prevailing perception that the MCU brand is on a downward trajectory.
You can count Arrowverse creator Marc Guggenheim among the latter. A recent guest on The Aarthi and Sriram Show, Guggenheim was asked about his thoughts on rebooting the MCU.
Said Guggenheim [via The Direct]:
"If I was suddenly in [Marvel Studios President] Kevin Feige's role, basically I would do what Iger was saying, which is prune the tree. You know, there's just too much content. I'm like the biggest Marvel nerd ever, and I haven't seen Moon Knight. I just can't keep up. There's just too much content."
"And then of course like Iger was saying, there's a question of how much content can you produce at quality. To me the difference between Phase 4 and Phases 1 through 3 is fundamentally something very simple, which is you could even be watching 'Infinity War' without having seen the prior X number of movies."
Guggenheim went on to reference the self-contained nature of the films from Phase 1 to Phase 3, which also simultaneously built towards the climactic showdown with Thanos.
"'Winter Soldier' was its own movie with a beginning, middle, and end. And yet, that movie set the foundation for things that, you know it didn't deal with Infinity Stones, but it did deal with Hydra and SHEILD and Steve Rogers' relationship with the government and the Winter Soldier. There were alot of pieces. And same thing with 'Black Panther.' 'Black Panther' works great as a movie beginning, middle, and end, even though it's setting up this whole world of Wakanda that figures very large in 'Infinity War."
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