Kevin Feige Had An Idea For The Future Of The X-MEN Franchise, But Fox Picked Another Route

Kevin Feige Had An Idea For The Future Of The X-MEN Franchise, But Fox Picked Another Route

If you didn't know, Kevin Feige once worked under Fox for the XMEN franchise with ideas in the future. Those ideas were not followed by Fox who chose a different path. Now Feige talks about it...

By MrPositive - Dec 07, 2017 06:12 PM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Studios
Source: comicbook.com
Kevin Feige's ideas FOX didn't follow

    Before Kevin Feige came to help build the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he was a part of FOX as they were creating their X-Men Franchise. The producer of the franchise Lauren Shuler promoted Feige to associate producer for the first X-Men movie. After the big hit of the movie Kevin was later co-producer for X-Men 2 and then executive producer on the third X-Men movie before leaving the company to work for Disney.
 

   In the interview Shuler talks about the sucess that Kevin Feige has created through the MCU.
"I’m not surprised—I’m just so proud," Shuler Donner tells Vanity Fair. This isn't surprising as she must have seen what Feige was able to do with the ideas he had for the comic book characters. This isn't the only thing that she talked about as she says that Feige was looking for the future of the X-Men.

   Lauren continues the interview about Feige's views of the franchise after he had worked for the movies. "When we were developing the X-Men movies, he and I had laid out a plan where the X-Men franchise should go," said Shuler Donner, who has produced every X-Men film, including spinoffs Deadpool, Logan and the upcoming The New Mutants. "Fox picked another route. I’m not surprised he kept that [comic book] aesthetic, and decided he would take the Marvel world and join them together and make five-year plan after five-year plan."

With the Disney/Fox deal coming closer and closer, Feige might be able to achieve his old goals.


 




 

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XelCorp
XelCorp - 12/7/2017, 6:40 PM
For all you die hard fox-men fanboys, this is why the x-men are wanted back where they belong. HOME.
lyka0
lyka0 - 12/7/2017, 7:01 PM
@XelCorp -

If James Murdoch is CEO of Disney, there may be a chance Murdoch will keep X-Men and F4 at Fox Studios.
auditore
auditore - 12/7/2017, 7:03 PM
@lyka0 - that makes no [frick]in sense
lyka0
lyka0 - 12/7/2017, 7:05 PM
@auditore - Its possible.

James Murdoch will be Feige's boss?
Menks123
Menks123 - 12/7/2017, 6:41 PM
Wow, he was road mapping shit for them too...and they passed. Imagine how fricking great their universe would be right now.
Menks123
Menks123 - 12/7/2017, 6:41 PM
If and when this happens, makes me so excited to see Feige's plans even more...and that excitement was through the roof already.
blitzkreg
blitzkreg - 12/7/2017, 6:49 PM
Can't wait to see what he does with X-Men and Fantastic Four.
auditore
auditore - 12/7/2017, 7:04 PM
Feige's super power is planning things ahead in the best way possible
Kumkani
Kumkani - 12/8/2017, 2:40 AM
@auditore - He's basically Batman with prep time
InfinityWar2019
InfinityWar2019 - 12/7/2017, 7:05 PM
People still want Fox to make these Foxmen movies...



When the X-Men finally come home, can’t wait for Kevin Feige to prove the nay sayers wrong. They will all eat there words, I mean damn u don’t think he’s earned our trust???
CaptCoulson
CaptCoulson - 12/8/2017, 10:15 AM
@InfinityWar2019 - actually part of what's made me reticent on this whole Disney/Fox combo, as I described in a different story, is the fact that Fox has a very admirable batting average with the X-Men. Yea they've made some mediocre if not straight up bad movies, but the good to great ones they've made have the overall ratio being quite positive. X-Men doesn't necessarily need to be "saved" by Marvel Studios.

And as I said before, I'm not flat out anti-Disney/Marvel getting all the Fox entertainment back. Just that with all of the different variables considered, I'm at best not sure if it's the best move forward.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 12/7/2017, 7:23 PM
The man with the plan. Hope we see that plan come to fruition real soon.
Skrull
Skrull - 12/7/2017, 7:26 PM
When Feige worked for Shuler, he had the brilliant idea of using the actual comic books themselves as storyboards for movies. He told one interviewer that he would literally lay out pages and panels from various books to pitch ideas to the execs above him. To think that Fox had a true comic book movie visionary working for them and they let him go. What could have been.
billnye69
billnye69 - 12/7/2017, 7:36 PM
Its Marvels own fault that these characters and others aren't at home. Disney still cleaning up Marvels failures.
jj72
jj72 - 12/7/2017, 7:43 PM
If the deal does go through, Phase 4 is going to be insane. Maybe we'll finally see Cylops actually lead the X-Men, Black Panthers relationship with Storm, Hulk vs Thing or Spider Man and the Human Torch pranking each other. Hell, if they want a billion dollar BO flick, make one with Spidey and DeadPool.
Blastaar
Blastaar - 12/7/2017, 9:34 PM
@jj72 - The deal already went through. Possibly actually over a month ago.
MNLawyer
MNLawyer - 12/8/2017, 4:25 AM
@Blastaar ehhh.Stock market would show that and it doesn't
Blastaar
Blastaar - 12/8/2017, 6:01 AM
@MNLawyer - You're right, HOWEVER, something was in the works about two months ago because Stan Lee said that they'd be getting back ALL of the rights soon meaning X-Men and FF. Also on set, the staff of the Gifted referred to the bossese as Marvel not Fox.
MNLawyer
MNLawyer - 12/8/2017, 6:07 AM
@Blastaar - Contractual negotiations take time. I 100% believe we heard about it to test the waters and the market to see how investors felt about the merger. This is massive beyond just the MCU and getting it correct and legal is important.
jj72
jj72 - 12/8/2017, 8:33 AM
@Blastaar - discussions took place. No deal was signed a month ago. If there was, Sony and Comcast would not have been in negotiations as well.
DetectiveSnosbot
DetectiveSnosbot - 12/8/2017, 8:52 AM
@MNLawyer - I thought it did show once the possibility of the deal leaked to the public. I swear I read that somewhere the day after the news hit.
MNLawyer
MNLawyer - 12/8/2017, 8:58 AM
@DetectiveSnosbot - They did up tick, but Fox stock has been trending up for a month, Disney had a big peak between the 1st and 4th. They've both actually dropped a bit today...whatever that means.
DetectiveSnosbot
DetectiveSnosbot - 12/8/2017, 9:01 AM
@jj72 - When we hear this news, it is likely well after relevancy. Comcast and Sony were probably in the hunt and out of contention long before we heard a thing. The news leaked in order to finish the deal, move things along.
I am with @Blastaar on this. There were too many hints out there alluding to something going down well before any rumors came out. Tis a foregone conclusion.


DetectiveSnosbot
DetectiveSnosbot - 12/8/2017, 9:03 AM
@Blastaar -
Blastaar
Blastaar - 12/9/2017, 10:20 AM
@MNLawyer - I'm not saying you are wrong, you're right, all I know is, is that Stan Lee knew about this a few months back. Also, I was an extra on the Gifted and "some" already seemed to know this was going down. Just speculation but you never know.
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