When Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige had to report to Marvel Entertainment's Isaac Perlmutter, life was far from easy for the executive. The notoriously stingy CEO made life difficult on a number of levels, pushing a bumbling Creative Committee on Feige along with movies he didn't want to make (Inhumans) and cutting costs in ways that damaged those early blockbusters.
Eventually, Feige would ask then Disney CEO Bob Iger to make Marvel Studios its own separate entity. He obliged, and big changes followed. A report from Puck, however, reveals that Feige became so frustrated during Phase 2 that he considered making the jump to the Distinguished Competition.
Talking about the changes taking place at Warner Bros. Discovery, insider Matthew Belloni reveals, "[David] Zaslav could make another run at Feige, who, I’m told, talked pretty seriously with Warners a few years ago when he was angling to escape the oversight of Marvel’s then-madman C.E.O. Ike Perlmutter."
Can you imagine?
The DC Extended Universe would be both considerably better and vastly more successful with Feige in charge, and we could have actually had a shared world with all those characters by now. What would have become of the MCU is hard to say, but based on Marvel Television's efforts, it wouldn't have been great.
Now, as Marvel Studios continues to go from strength to strength, the DCEU remains in flux with no clear direction or plan moving forward.
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