Kevin Feige Began Feeling Like MCU Projects Were Homework Instead of Entertainment

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Kevin Feige Began Feeling Like MCU Projects Were Homework Instead of Entertainment

Kevin Feige started to feel like watching MCU movies and television shows was “homework” rather than “entertainment.”

It’s been no secret that, since the release of Avengers: Endgame, Marvel has been ramping up their yearly production. While 2024 was different because of the Hollywood strikes, the studio has started putting out a much larger quantity of movies and particularly shows; WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, What If…?, and Hawkeye, for example, were all released in 2021.

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Because of this, per The Wall Street Journal, Feige recently told his colleague that “watching all the comic-book giant’s new TV shows and films had started to feel more like homework than entertainment.”

The article continues, “The problem, Kevin Feige acknowledged, is that in an effort to satisfy parent company Disney’s hunger for content on its new streaming service, the studio behind The Avengers churned out too many movies and shows with interconnected stories. The deluge of material from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or MCU, on Disney+ overwhelmed and eventually alienated viewers. It also stretched Feige and his team’s resources thin, diluting the quality of their output. Marvel’s box-office sales, streaming popularity, and formerly untouchable position in pop culture suffered.”

According to The Wall Street Journal, Feige, who declined to be interviewed for the story, was so busy working on all the various MCU projects in the early 2020s that “staffers resorted to chasing [him] in the halls to get answers.”

Other MCU employees said they “sometimes spent weeks on work that proved irrelevant once [Feige] weighed in, then found themselves with little time to implement his changes before a deadline.”

Marvel has since decided to cut back on how many television series are being produced, while a “senior executive is” now “overseeing television so Feige can focus on film.”

Following the release of Thunderbolts*, Marvel Studios‘ Ironheart premieres on Disney+ next month. The Fantastic Four: First Steps then arrives in July, while the animated Eyes of Wakanda series premieres in August.