Marvel FINALLY Confesses The Truth About The MCU That We All Knew
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has gifted audiences one of the most successful film products with the MCU. However, with all the good times, bad times have come for Marvel Studios as well. In this replay of my live stream, I'm going to talk about the latest interview with Marvel Studio execs as they describe the state of the MCU and what they hope for the future. I'll share my thoughts on his interview and I hope you do the same in the comments.
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I love how humble feige is. He's a true fan that wants to bring great entertainment and is not just some corporate suit
10:30 in my opinion all of phase 3 was a hit starting with Civil War but 2017-2019 spoiled us
Spoiled us bad 😅
And they really need to get back to setting us up for what’s next ….. idk about yall but having a good OMG end credit scene was the cherry on top , it’s nothing like watching a good movie then at the end they hit u with a taste of something good to come and for the next week or two u talking about OHHHH MAN u see that so and so is coming or hinted at ….
I hope they decide to bring back Jonathan Majors to finish his role as Kang. Make his character reboot what has happened. Wishful thinking. Let's not give up on Kang (the original Kang). If they decide to recast...ok fine but make it make sense OR just bring back JM to continue playing his role.
MCU struggling isn’t like any other studio struggling. Cuz when u look at the actual numbers post phase 3 they are still one of the biggest franchises and get more people to the theaters than their competitors. In 2023 MCU had 3 releases. 2 out of 3 of those releases were in the top 10 worldwide grosses for the year and one was too 5!! Yep!! Antman believe it or not, was the 10th highest grossing film of 2023 calendar year! So u ask how could that be with all those headlines saying it flopped!? Two things, FIRST it came out in January and at the time no one knew the 2023 box office would be so weak that Antman would actually end up being one of the top grossers and SECONDLY it wasn’t profitable because of the over-inflated budget. In 2022 MCU had 3 releases and all 3 were top 10 worldwide grossers and in the US (the worlds largest box office) MCU had #2 (Wakanda Forever) and #3 (Dr Strange)- that’s 2 of the 3 top movies of the year! Hell, even Eternals was a hit relative to all the other movies that come out that year it even outgrossed the first Dune movie that came out that year #6 in the US and #11 for the worldwide charts! MCU may have problems but getting butts in seats (relative to other movies) isn’t one. It more a fallacy and there’s so much talk about their decline from Phase 3 but truthfully that’s bar they may never reach again and that’s ok- that’s not the only measure of success. Now quality and hits with critics and fans… that’s a whole other story…lol
You’re right narratives usually hold more weight to the general public than actual facts lol
I say it all the time. The MCU is the most profitable and successful franchise in Hollywood history. No way could’ve kept that pace.
It is overblown budgets. Even former employees have said they burn movies 2--3 times to get a finished product.
I think Sony keeps making those movies so they can keep the rights to the characters.
Yes but that's no excuse for the movies to be so bad. They're literally losing money
if they keep doing terrible they will eventually sell him back
@@commonboss100 we can only hope and pray for it 😭
That’s exactly why they are making them , to keep the rights .
The problem is, the people that made ALL THOSE bad decisions... ARE STILL IN CHARGE! They have no idea what to do with marvel superheroes
They need to get back to making good movies and shows, show us Cap putting the stones back and go from there.
The first step to getting better is admitting your faults. If feige listen to his fans, stick to the lore of the comics just like they did in phases 1,2,and 3, then they’ll be on the right track. “Sonic the hedgehog“ is a perfect example of this! They put that first trailer out and people were pissed at sonics design. The studio heard that went back in redid him, and the rest was history.
Why would he listen to fans. The worst thing to do
@@chalkywhite2598 Depends on what side of the spectrum you are on.
@@ezragilliam9647 again, 7 films that have made 6.1 billion. No studio in Hollywood can say that.
So glad they said this but we still on the mission #recastT'challa
The MCU's struggle may stem from its lack of emphasis on emotional depth in characters and adherence to comic book storylines. By deviating from the source material and not infusing passion, it risks falling short of the comic book it seeks to emulate.
In my opinion, I think they should also contract on the stacks. Reality ending events should be limited. Slowing down will help the characters grow on screen also, less ensembles and more original storylines.
Quality over quantity is best .
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it's quite rare for the heads of companies to own up to their failures and mistakes. It's kind of refreshing. Hopefully Deadpool and Wolverine reignite the MCU. Looking forward to seeing how that fairs and how it all plays out from here.
In regards to “that studio,” I really feel that there’s a clause in their share-deal that prevents them from putting “that character” in their live-action films that aren’t made jointly with “the other studio.” That Studio has made dumb choices, but nothing that would lead me to believe they’d keep doing what they’re doing unless there was something more to it
Apocalypse needs the THANOS treatment...say" been there ,done that" all you want. APOCALYPSE absolutely deserves the lead up
While true that trying to make too much content can be an issue, that is not the only issue with Marvel. It's also the decision making and direction Marvel has taken. The decisions don't seem to be based on what the fans want to see like the past successful MCU movies. Now they think they can push a female centric agenda disguised in super hero films and we're supposed to just accept whatever they serve. DP will be a hit because Ryan Reynolds respects his fans and serves his fan base before the agenda. Rumor is they want X-men also to be female centric just like everything else with the MCU. Male and female superheroes can both excel without disregarding the other. Hopefully Marvel can figure this out and correct this going forward. Slowing down is great and all but they need to go back to the drawing board about their overall focus and target audience.
I feel they had a good start in phase 4 with Wanda and Loki and what if some what with Falconand Winter they needed to build up their characters like with Thor and Iron man and Captain and Hulk
Definitely slow down they need to bring the fresh and new surprises.like no one stayed after the credits in iron man one. It wasn't until i had the dvd and i had it running while i was cleaning up when it popped i was like what!!!
Yes, surprise is important for a film's success.
No excuses. Here's all the shows Marvel produced while still delivering the Golden Age of the MCU movies at the time. 7 Seasons Agents of Shield 2013-2022 2 seasons Agent Carter 2015-2016 Inhumans 2017 2 seasons Daredevil 2015-2018 3 Seasons Jessica Jones 2015-2019 2 seasons Luke Cage 2016-2018 2 seasons Iron Fist 2017-2018 Defenders 2017 2 seasons The Punisher 2017-2019 3 seasons Runaways 2017-2019 2 season Cloak & Dagger 2018-2019 Compared to 12 total six episode Disney plus shows and mediocre to bad phases of current MCU movies.
Those weren't Marvel Studios. Those were produced by Marvel Entertainment under Jeph Loeb. That's not on Feige. I THINK inhumans may be the only one Marvel Studios actually tried though.
@@EmansReviews Do you plan on making a video about the rumor that Marvel wants the live X-men movie to be female centric? This is the issue more than too much content. Male and female heroes can both thrive together. Why doesn't Marvel understand this.
@@jamesbush4929 no because whether that rumor is true or not, the way it's reported is dumb. Focusing on women is NOT a problem. X-Men 97 has been doing it all season and no one complained. People just don't want pandering (or forcing a subject) which is very different than telling authentic stories. For example, if marvel wanted a writer who could finally tell a great story about Jean and Phoenix or Storm going to Africa and marrying T'Challa, would that really be a problem? (Especially since it's from the comics) So no, I'm not falling for the bait of a random rumor. Now IF the movie comes out and it feels forced and not good THEN I'll criticize it plenty.
@@EmansReviews I agree with you that IF Marvel gave us great stories about female characters we actually care about like Storm, Phoenix and Rogue then yes they would be successful. But it can't be ignored that Marvel has chosen to focus on female pandering in addition to lots of content and that's part of the problem too. Black Panther 2 suffered from this as well. And X-men 97 does not come across as focusing on the women, it seems to be a good enough blend unlike What If Season 2.
@@jamesbush4929 oh I agree in the past, after endgame, it was definitely forced and not good. It was too noticeable and it felt performative. And you're right, X-Men 97 doesn't feel like they're forcing women and that's the best part. Almost every episode has been about the women but the stories are so good no one minds. Hopefully that's the lesson marvel actually learns too.
Im in different still. Kevin Figoli still allowed The Marvels, Thor 4, Antman 3, and DOO DOO Secret Invasion to be released. Cautiously optimistic, but the trust is GONE
For example, the bait and switch silver surfer says nothing has been learned
You totally caved on T’Challa. You you need your access.
Allow me to take Fiege's "Better with no expectations" theory further.... The best thing he can do to maximize on that is to cast the best fit for roles instead of chasing big name actors! This is especially true with the MCU now fixing all of the flubs that FOX made with The X-men & Fantastic Four. Between those two franchises, there was a handful of cool castings & a lot of horrible ones. The only perfect one was Patrick Stewart as Professor X. I love Halle Berry & Hugh Jackman as actors, but NO. They could have saved millions on casting better fitting actors for those roles. Fiege needs to beware of this as he already has slipped into this trap.
Marvel has heard all the complaints and has had time to adjust, and they still give us the same crap movies. Giving us less is not going to change things, in my opinion. Marvel had decided that they're going to continue to give us what they want, and the fans are just going to like it.
It wasn't dilution through doing too much. What got diluted was the quality of the writing, the need to make everyone likable and "funny" and shoehorning what makes spidey great to every character. Also you can make a proper Villian and not have to kill them off. Just about every decent one was killed off. High Evolutionary? Thanos? Ego? In a way, I'm glad they haven't tried the Xmen yet. The writing challege presented by the material would be too much. The 97 series has shown how it can be great, and comparing the writing between this animated series against the last several MCU projects is like comparing a senior high school essay to a middle school one.
Until they do right by Blade and Storm, Im gonna stay suspicious
Less money, more cash will hopefully bring better product. But they also need to change the direction they have been going.
They need to make 1-2 movies a year and 1-2 tv shows a year as well . Spread them though out the year . Quality over quantity, they need to focus on making and Telling good stories . Comic book movies shouldn’t be hard to make the characters already popular and you can borrow stories from the comics . If marvel even Dc could do so they will be fine . The fan base is already there, all they want are well put stories with good actors in it.
They need to get back to telling great stories.
Kevin needs to sit down and have a talk with Kathleen Kennedy.
4:29 yes it is still too much. Now there is more scrutiny, all the new films need to be bangers and the TV shows need to be cultural events like The Last of Us or Netflix DearDevil. They need to deliver consistent quality for a while, before they ca. start releasing the occasional *”meh”*
Marvel made some bad moves bit we can't forget between the theater shutdowns and the writer strike they had to pivot alot. What we got wasn't the original plan. We would have been so much further now I'm still not saying they didn't make dumb decisions but I don't hear anyone taking any of the other things into consideration
Cough), Warner Bruhs! (Cough cough)
Rumor was they didn’t know why people didn’t like Ant Man 3. 😂 which is wild. Major’s wasn’t even convicted at the time. If thats’s true how you don’t see that movies flaws is crazy
ENDGAME is overrated. They still screwed up on the hulk, false advertised him being the raged hulk in trailers. Also they absolutely did not need a 5 year gap after the snap which actually still ruined lives if you really think about jobs, relationships etc
Sony studios literally must have money to burn! 🔥 Madame Webb Morpheus wow Sony big money 💴
I don't think the amount they prodouche. As a movie or a series matters. What the issue is that they're not doing the storyline right they supposed too. secondly, didn't bring all the superheroes characters in the movies and series that should have been. Like was in the some content that is or all the content. That was in the comic books and make sure that all the superheroes are in the movies, and not fan favorite superheroes but have all the superhero characters and get the right actors to play the action movie of those characters.
Don't have the confidence you do Bruv . If your comp made a new sandwich based on an old formula and it was a hit and then you started freestyling abandoning the formula everyone loved i don't think making fewer sandwiches is the correction. The correction is a return to the formula with innovation based deeply in the original formula. I don't hear marvel criticizing themselves for the decision to actively reject the formula. To hire writers and directors completely and deliberately ignorant of the formula. I hear announcements still seeped in the new recipe most did not like. I'm go out on a limb and say that end game was the beginning of marvel's downward spiral. They promised that endgame would not be a time travel movie. Remember that? And what did they do? Yup gave us a pure time travel movie. Same thing happens with a lot of successful companies. Did you see the founder?
So I'll disagree mainly with the analogy because making movies isn't really the same as making food. Sure it sounds good to just make the same thing and don't change, but I don't know about you, but I'd eventually get tired of eating that same thing. Lol Making movies in the entertainment world is all about trying new things. Similar to the music world, if you don't change and innovate, you get left behind. So in this case, Marvel needs time for better quality control. To me, that includes time to HEAR from fans what works or doesn't. They can't do that if they're rushing from project to project. So as I've said before, I'll judge whether marvel will succeed or not when they actually use their best assets like the x-men. If they fail with that THEN there's good cause to worry. Giving up on them after they had a poor phase and even after they said they're going to learn from that just seems premature to me. 🤷🏿♂️ We've never seen anything like this in the movie business so I think people should have a more long term view rather than just a "what have you done lately" view with a cinematic universe. But to each their own.
I hate this excuse of 8 projects were too many. If Marvel was really connected and doing like they shld, the shld be able to do at least 6 live action projects a year. They need to focus on the right characters and stories.
They need to give the fans what they want and stay true to the comics
Me personally I think another problem the MCU has is the stories they are going with it's like they're catering to one demographic of people. Marvel has so many characters but it seems like they're only focusing on too many female lead roles!!!
We all know what the problem really is. It’s not the amount of movie they put out. They are either gaslighting or tone deaf
It should be 3 movies and 0 shows
The MCU: Multiverse/ Grief phase had it moments but has quickly lost the plot😂
X-Men 97 will prop up marvel until they make something crap again! And lets face it the true marvel universe is no where near to what it could be and should be!? reboot everything clean slate and do the X-Men and Fantastic 4 right please!
You are still caping up for them.
I really hope they rebound, but regardless Thor 4 will always go down as one of the worst movies I have EVER watched. And I’ve seen a lot of movies.
Naw Mayne. They exactly what they did from the get go. While we told them over and over. But they rubbed their ignorance in our face. Profits showed them that they should’ve recast T’Challa from the start because Chadwick wanted it that way! The Exec’s at MCU are still suckas!!
Bob is full of B.S. if it wasn't for Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman the third act of this movie would be a disaster and it would not make any money with Bob and Disney trying to do all their woke agenda reshoots in the third act
And Kevin Fiege needs to be removed. He should not be doing any more movies. No more series, not even behind the anime. He's the one that messed him up. Why is he trying to get people fired. He's the one who keeps making decisions and not letting those people do their job.
You dont have the answers E Man!
I believe Deadpool in Wolverine will be great movie cuz of Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are in charge of it ❗ ya there have been too much content and not that many Big Time actors and the quality and storytelling of movies and shows suck ass ❗ is not just marvel ! The company of Disney need to be overhauled ❗ Kevin feige and especially Bob iger have lost sight of how to entertain the fans ❗
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 The MCU is dead. It’s not Star Wars dead,YET,but it’s on the way. It started dying the SECOND they started trying to adapt the COMPLETE failure that was,”All New Marvel”. Deadpool and Wolverine will hit,but they are FLOPSVILLE after that. It’s not the quantity.It’s the QUALITY. Disney doesn’t listen to Fans. They BROWBEAT Fans. T’Challa WORKED.Every movie he was in made a Billion. Did they recast him? Or did they back Shuri into a film that underperformed? Are they talking of recasting T’Challa even now,or are they going to ruin the Black Panther IP on the Shuri train?
uh.....ok.🤣 To me its simple. Spiderman is popular. Avengers makes money and the last one was 2019! Noone asked for Eternals. Simple🤣
Star wars dead? I feel like SW is at its peak with the content we been getting lately.
Dead? How can a franchise be dead whose last 7 films have grossed over 6 billion dollars. How can it be dead when KZheadrs like this won’t shut up about it.
Marvel will not recast T'Challa in respect of Chadwick Boseman.
@link9686 it'd be more disrespectful to not continue his legacy and just throwaway a character that he worked so hard to bring to mainstream.
Let’s be honest… Marvel went against the formula that made them successful… That’s why they declined. It was clearly an agenda. It’s like a successful pizza restaurant who switches from serving pizza to serving sushi, then ignoring their customers complaints/wants and doubling down on serving sushi (nasty sushi at that) even tho they’re losing money…, Then when they’re almost at the stage of bankruptcy, they act as if they didn’t know why they failed. 😂 I see they’re trying to use the whole “superhero fatigue” excuse… It’s so played out. It doesn’t matter if you go from 5 piles of crap a year to 2 piles of crap a year… It’s still crap. Go back to the original formula and ditch the woke agenda bs. The woke agenda was clearly the motive behind those terrible movies.
Im sorry but Marvel aint coming back. They keep trying to force charcters and storylines the FANS dont want to see. Who asked to kill off Tchalla? Who asked for a female silver surfer? Who asked for a female TaskMaster? Who asked for Falcon to turn into SwapMeetCap? Who asked for Thor to be a joke character? Who asked for Kang to get beat up by Antman? Who asked for the MARVELS? Answer: Not the fans. Have a nice day.
It CAN'T be all DEI and GIrl Boss crap, but I don't think Eiger has really learned. Heard on another channel or two that Eiger said sorry we messed up but we're doubling down on woke crap. If true they will lose more money.
The writing sucked. Marvel always have an excuse why they can not retain good writers. That silly jokey tone in their movies sucks. Converting main characters into female sucked. Why did Captain Marvel ever get a solo movie much less a second one? Why did you think audience would prefer the Jolly Green Giant to the Incredible Hulk? Imagine how much better Endgame would have been if they had just used the old Incredible Hulk in place of Captain Marvel. Who told you to make a Black Panther movie without T'Challa? The Golden Age of Marvel was during the Russo Brothers era. Please tell me again, why did the Russo Brothers leave Marvel? Were they hard too hard to work with as well or was it just the other guy?
Quantity may be an issue, but it is secondary to the DEI, Social identity politic content. If the focus remains on Social engineering as opposed to storyline, MCU loses every time
Both franchises are dead Kevin foggy killed the MCU with changing it to the M she u and now Star Wars Kathleen Kennedy kill Star Wars with Mary Sue💩