The president of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, revealed some of the studio’s secrets in a recent podcast session.
One of the most popular movie series in history is the MCU.
It not only has a sizable and active fan base but also its projects and stars have won major accolades.
Whether you like the MCU or not, everyone can agree that it must be doing something well. In a recent interview, Feige discussed this from his point of view.
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How Does the MCU Operate?
The President of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, discussed the MCU’s success in an interview with host Jason E. Squire of The Movie Business Podcast.
While “storylines and spoilers” are kept under wraps, he claimed that Marvel has “no secrets” and doesn’t employ any special “recipe” to guarantee the success of its projects:
What are the Marvel Studios’ trade secrets, asks Jaseon E. Squire?
John Cena: “I’ll tell you the truth, which is not as thrilling, but you’ll learn the inside scoop on this podcast. Nothing is kept a secret. There are storyline secrets, spoilers, and other things of the sort, but if there were a formula—which people have been asking about for a very long time, but there isn’t one—it wouldn’t exist.”
The potential for Marvel creatives to interact with people in other Disney-owned products and divisions is “one of the many, many good” aspects of Marvel being a part of the Walt Disney Company, according to Feige:
We got access to all the brilliant people at the other studios within Walt Disney Live-Action, Pixar, and shortly Lucasfilm, so we can have all these inside conversations with people. This was one of the many, many positive things that happened when we joined the Walt Disney company a number of years ago.
Through those discussions, Feige discovered that a project’s initial “terribleness” and subsequent “shaping, working, and reworking” are common experiences in the creative process.
“And again, this was probably a decade ago, but I found it to be really therapeutic when the Pixar staff members talked to us about how difficult each project is for them to complete and how, eventually, everything they’re working on is… awful. And is not that great. and need shaping, working, and reworking. And because that’s how it was for us—and still is for us at Marvel Studios—I felt a tremendous weight lifted off my shoulders.”
As a result of this “weight removed,” Feige was able to see that no project “comes out of [people’s] minds completely formed,” and that all creatives must put in the labor to create any idea good enough to “end up standing the test of time”:
“Making any movie or project requires a huge lot of work and effort, much less one that endures the test of time, which is always our goal at Marvel Studios. For some reason, I just assumed that everything created by other successful organizations and individuals must have come to them fully formed, whereas, at Marvel Studios, we had to toil, toil, toil, toil, toil, toil, to make everything work. No, that is not the case, it turned out.”
While Marvel does not specifically own any secrets to its own success, he came to the conclusion that there is one secret that is “common among great corporations, storytellers, and filmmakers:” and that is “a huge amount of hard work:”
“Successful businesses, authors, and filmmakers all have one thing in common: they all put in a tonne of effort. Passion is the only thing that can drive such a laborious job. And happily, we have plenty of that at Marvel Studios. I usually remark that we would be the first ones to purchase advance tickets or, as I used to say, stand in line for blocks to watch the movies if we weren’t here making them.”
Marvel Studios’ Real Success Formula
Retakes are common for MCU projects; in fact, Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania had retaken a little over a month before its debut.
While that would suggest to some that there are issues with the movie, it is actually evidence of the “tremendous amount of hard work” that Feige talked about going into each Marvel project. Retakes indicate that Marvel has identified a problem and is attempting to rectify it.
Fans should be able to experience the fruits of the labor put into each project as the MCU keeps releasing more and more movies, series, and extra features.
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