Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige Was Almost Fired Back In 2015 Before Bob Iger Stepped In

@Dotanuki - Shitheel? Nah. That's too good. Come on CBM, we can do better than that.

@19Batman84 - Yeah, but [foo foo]s can be awesome in the right context.

We can do better than that.

@19Batman84 - Nah I love that how about D I C K

@Dotanuki -
His life is a net negative

@Dotanuki - Gentlemen (and gentlewomen)... I believe the honorable Clark W. Griswold has already articulated how he feels about Ike and what he (and likely the rest of us) would do if he were to ever meet him face to face when he said "And I want to look him straight in the eye, and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit!"

'Nuff said.

@Deadinside - Or even worse (and Christ I can't believe I'm even going to say this): he should be sentenced to go work for Avi Arad on the SPUMC at Sony! There, I said it (well, I typed it - I'm pretty sure that if you speak those words out loud it's like summoning Beetlejuice except Avi appears and follows you around 24/7 just pitching really bad Spider-Man adjacent movie ideas for all eternity and you can't get rid of him an only you can see and hear him "How about this one: instead of Peter Parker we have a character who's not actually PP named "Peter Parquet" and he's French, right? So we call him "Spider-Homme" and it takes place in Paris (which we'll film in Jersey because it's A LOT cheaper and I don't think anyone will notice the difference). ANYHOW, French Peter is a pastry chef, right? Stick with me here. Ha! See what I did there? Stick with me! Wait - there we go: he's a pastry chef who gets bitten by a radioactive sticky bun that he accidentally put inside a nuclear accelerator instead of his oven because they right next to each other and look almost identical and he was distracted when he saw the dark chocolate frosting on one of his cakes slide off the cake and across the counter which, stick with me here (Ha! I love it!) is, wait for it... wait for it... how we introduce his arch-enemy... wait for it... "Le Venin"! Ha! Pure Box Office gold right there! OR, how about we do a movie like "3 Men and a Baby" (because EVERYONE LOVED that movie, but we gender-swap it and it's now "3 Women and a Spider-Baby"? And instead of him throwing up all over the women like little babies do, he just shoots webbing all over the place because, wait for it... wait for it... we're going back to organic web shooters folks! That's right! OR what about..."

If you are even more dead inside after reading that, I apologize. Just be glad it's not you. I made the mistake of proof reading this post out loud, and, well, let's just say I wasn't making that shit up, I was transcribing. *sigh*.

"OR, how about..."

@TyrantBossMedia - The problem is the one who is second in command after Feige, who is taking a lot more decisions since Endgame.

@TyrantBossMedia - Phase 3 was largely better than Phase 2 though. The relationship with Perlmutter and the Marvel creative board ruined Age of Ultron and nearly killed Civil War. Civil War is the direct result of cutting ties with Perlmutter.

Phase 4 is a different beast entirely, and was likely going to happen no matter what. It would be extremely hard for ANYONE to continue a cinematic universe after a movie called ENDGAME.

Still I think the criticisms of the universe not having a plan is insanely short sighted if you're not watching everything that comes out. The Multiverse angle was obvious from the start, and you clearly see them weaving all the members of the Young Avengers and Thunderbolts. The problem is that there's just too much stuff coming out all at once. If the pandemic had never happened, maybe it might be better, but the watch time of Phase 4 almost, or does beat, the watch time of the entire Infinity Saga.

@TyrantBossMedia - You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Perlmutter and the Creative Committee in NY claimed that the fans "didn't want to see heroes fighting each other" and wanted the end of Civil War changed so that Cap and Tony teamed up to fight 5 Super Soldiers instead. It got to the point where the Russo's nearly left the project if Marvel Studios caved into the Committee's demands.

@dmac3232 - Aren't you adorable.

@KelvTwelve - See and while I liked Civil War, I think they screwed up the story. Civil War should have been a monumental chapter in the MCU. Instead they made it a one-off movie that was quickly resolved by Infinity War.

Ultron was not good, but I blame that more on Whedon.

The stuff coming out all at once is because Marvel is getting greedy and feeling too confident.
They think they can release anything now and people will just want to see it.
You still have to have a good story and strong character development. Phase 4 does not have that.

I also have read that Feige was planning to go Galactic in Phase 4 but then Gunn was fired and went to DC to do The Suicide Squad. Gunn was supposed to spearhead the Galactic with Feige.
So they moved to the Multiverse and rushed into something that they clearly needed to lay out ahead of time.

@TyrantBossMedia - Believe it or not, I agree with you on the importance of opposing opinions. I just believe that you’re WAY off base painting Perlmutter (or the Creative Committee as a whole) as a positive force.

You used George Lucas as an example of a singular voice and again I completely agree how detrimental that was to the Prequel trilogy. Marvel Studios is NOT that. There is no such thing as a lone writer/director and MANY directors and actors have gone on record about how collaborative Marvel is.

@DianaGohan - As I said, your vitriol and name calling and attempted insults are wasted on me.
I welcome the poison of this site as I have for a decade, and you and yours never disappoint.

Your anger only invalidates your further.
And it makes it all the more clear that my point goes right over your head.
Others get it…but clearly you are intellectually incapable of doing so.

So easy.