How Kevin Feige KILLED the MCU

Dear Kevin Feike, I'm not sure if your address is still the same from the first letter I sent you, but I'm sure this one will reach you regardless one way or another. I am writing to you again because it has become blatantly obvious. that either you've chosen not to read the first letter I sent you or you've done so and moved on out of spite I'm going to go with the first thing I feel like look you only have one you' You're a busy guy, I get it, there's probably a lot on your plate, there's probably not even definitely a lot on your plate, but whatever the current state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is has guaranteed a following confidence that neither you nor I want me to be.

As I write this letter, but alas, here we are now, while it is true that we have technically only had two new theatrical editions of the MCU since we last spoke, we find ourselves on the precipice of the point of no return and I am the I just hope he has before jumping into the problems the MCU is currently facing. Today's video wouldn't be possible without a little help from our friends at Opera and today we're going to talk about the latest version of the Opera desktop browser which features a completely redesigned look and feel and completely new functionality with new features like islands of tabs to easily organize your projects' searches and workspace, and the new modular design of the Opera browser now adapts to your navigation to provide more space, intuitive navigation and fluid interaction, much like our favorite Marvel heroes. they are always there to protect us as we live our daily lives Opera comes with a free VPN and an ad blocker already installed to keep you safe while browsing the web see what I did there I have a James weapon level I need to create new playlists well Opera offers easy access to all your favorite players, including Spotify, Apple Music, Derer Tidle, and many more.

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Flaggy, I turn my attention to you. I think it's important to understand why I and others like me are Even taking the time to write petitions like this, it's just plain and simple we love Marvel and have long loved the MCU Kevin, you oversaw the creation of something that had never been accomplished before successfully and it was beautiful to see it flourish and The characters grew felt like individuals with their own agendas and goals, each brought their own personality to the table and the actors felt like they were serving the characters and not just playing one version of themselves and all these movies, all these characters were likable. to watch on their own, but amazing to see when they all came together, each film stood out and while some were definitely stronger than others, they were still unique.

The films were made keeping in mind the characters first and foremost, and the story of interconnectivity second. The way the stories were meant to be told there was surely a vague direction of where they wanted these characters to go in future installments, but it wasn't as explicitly mapped out, there was room for Pivot to improvise and improve based on what the audience responded to and what the state of the world was or whatever outside force was causing them to take creative detours from what they had initially imagined, these movies could deviate and do their own thing, look at the Guardians of the Galaxy movies or the Ant-Man movies, I know .

It's somewhat controversial, but I those movies rule and do their thing very well and they did it without concern for the larger universe and in turn the larger universe would respond to the successes of the individual films. It's like improvisation, yes. and instead of each movie existing to further the overarching narratives, they added to the tapestry of the universe and determined the direction in Phase 2, for example, Iron Man 3 happened, Thor 2 happened, Chapter 2 and Guardians happened, etc., and so on, Iron Man 3 was a straight Shane film noir that dealt with Tony's PTSD and existential crisis after years of being Iron Man brought on by a near-death experience in The Avengers, took the character to a place he'd never been before, making a beautiful island cap in a character arc that started in 2008 42 didn't work out, so they revamped it and changed Away Chapter 2 and the Guardians were massive hits and their respective hits They reported what Phase 3 would look like.

Kevin, you took what was working, what the audience was digging and used that to help you figure out where to go with your universe and the best part was that Chapter 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy didn't were trying to be nothing more than compelling character pieces, these films didn't exist to serve a larger plan. each would help determine what that larger plan would look like at this point, they stick to the script rather than each other and each individual project has less say in terms of the direction the franchise will take, they are just cogs in the machine rather than contributing to adding the overarching narrative that allows future filmmakers to play with what came before, as Marvel director Nia Dasta recently put it, it's a Kevin Feige production, it's his movie.

The sad thing is that it wasn't always like this, it used to be Thor Shane by Kenneth br. Black Iron Man James Gun's Guardians of the Galaxy and as much as I hate to say it Jos Weeden's The Avengers, the MCU used to be like jazz, a flow of ideas in which each film improvises, each film could literally change the direction of the universe because I don't know what's going to happen next, whereas now we know what's happening because you told us there's no mystery or excitement, we're just going along the way, there are no consequences and that's because Kevin, you're too obsessed. with the plan, no, no, no.

It's not that plan, this is the thing about Plan Myths, it's just that a myth, a legend, an overinflated hyperbole, aka marketing material used to give a reason why the Infinity Saga was a such a massive success, the truth is that if you do any amount of research or reading the incredible new MCU book, the reign of Marvel Studios, you will understand that the Oh So Glorious plan was not as concrete as we all thought. I'm not sure if you remember Kevin, but the plan does. It didn't come into play until much later in the game with the Infinity Saga, once you had already figured out who your characters were and what worked and what didn't work narratively, you introduced Thanos on a whim in The Avengers because Jos Weeden was a huge nerd and I thought it would be fun to make sure there was an outline of where you wanted the story to go, but it was a narrative that could easily be corrected, altered, could change the last two films, it's really only when you fully committed and planned out what you were going to do. be Thanos and it worked because it was the grand finale, the groundwork had been laid, we cared about the characters, we watched them grow and now it was time to pit them against the ultimate adversary, people like Civil War, but it really has nothing to do with it. with the Infinity Saga, it theoretically led to the Avengers splitting up and an easy victory for Thanos, but I'm not necessarily thinking about that when I watch Infinity War or Civil?

Civil War as a movie itself had nothing to do with a single Infinity Stone and that's okay, I loved that about that movie, there's no place for something like that in whatever phase we're in now, the fact is that things they became too much to handle and Kevin, you tried to make everything fit into a plan you shouldn't have committed to the next saga right after a big saga ended, you should have made movies as a way to find the next saga instead backwards. Want to be. I'm excited for a new Captain Marvel movie, not only am I going to see where this stepping stone leads in the future and when you have marketing material hinting at the possible appearance of an X-Men in the film's post-credits scene, you really don't know.

I have no faith that the movie itself is what people are going to see, they're just looking for the cameos and the nostalgia and blah blah blah, so we don't have to put in the effort because this is here for us to build on. On to the next thing and the next thing and the plan, there's work to be done and Kevin, this rest period between MCU movies might be your last chance to do anything about it, it doesn't help that you're announcing your plans like that either. With much anticipation, you didn't give the audience a chance to miss you to come down from the enormous height that Infinity War gives us in the endgame, you ran towards the next Saga and put all your cards on the table.

Secret Wars multiverses Kang all. From that look, I'm sure many of us could have guessed that Secret Wars would be on the way, but surprise us, for the love of God, by announcing your projects so far in advance because you've planned them meticulously, it does a couple of things for a audience. Now we have a certain set of expectations and because there's so much emphasis on the Multiverse, when one of these projects like Hawkeye or Moonnight or one of my favorite things you've done, Werewolf By Night it's not about them feeling directionless. , we have Announcements of upcoming Marvel projects, sometimes years before their release, putting them under a microscope and doing so for a long time, when we know exactly where the universe is going, we remove some of the best parts of the beginnings from the MCU. films that at least to me included the appearance of community speculation, it's great to have ideas, you should please dear God have ideas, but this time instead of being Loosey Goosey with the ties in the infinity saga instead of being small things that would amount to something.

You came in and told everyone what was important from the beginning and that brings us to the whole Jonathan Major Kang thing, the idea of ​​what to do with this guy now that we've groomed him to be the greatest thing since Jesus Christ. I'm King, it wouldn't have been a problem if you'd let the third Ant-Man movie be an Ant-Man movie instead of trying to make it a big launching pad for the new saga, but look, I get it, Kevin, maybe you. You are really passionate about King the Conqueror, that's great, here is your solution to rephrase it, it's very easy because there are variants and who cares?

Jonathan Major, apart from his troubled personal life, is a great actor, but the truth is that he is replaceable because the character. It's the first thing, you spend so much time promoting Jonathan Major that you feel obligated not to quit, you have a way out, but you continue to make things more difficult for yourself and now, because you are in this Tail Spin, if you want to believe the Marvel rumors. wants to rush Dr. Doom into saving everything and being their new big bad because they won't be playing Kang the Conqueror again, that's crazy. Doom should be featured in the fantastic four.

Sorry, I let those guys take center stage at this point to finish. I don't know why Kevin, you brought up the integration of the What you should have done: There is a deficit of strong central characters in your cinematic universe and you were gifted with the return of your most popular heroes, why the hell are you delaying bringing them to the big screen? Maybe we could have done it. I had one or two Do people care? Think about X-Men on the big screen, characters can and should be remixed and reinvented. I want to know what the MCU version of the X-Men and the mutants looks like separate from what Fox did, besides that, the pivottowards television, which in my opinion, was a huge mistake, Kevin, you and the guys have not only spread yourself too thin, but you have planned the shows so much that they don't even feel like television, they feel like movie ideas that you have adapted for the television to run quickly. the preparation process the fact that you had to learn that showrunners were important to the success of oh, I don't know, a TV show is crazy to me, that's not how you lay the groundwork for your next big story and I know that you know that the thing about plans is that they should always be allowed to change when presented with new information and it's very easy to change the plan if you don't tell us with the MCU now that you've told us too much, what it gave you afraid admitting because you want to be overconfident and infallible, but instead they are stuck in mediocrity because you can't change anything and you are not willing to admit that you have made mistakes, they became arrogant and then started announcing an absurd amount of things unnecessarily well in advance and look what happened. us, among other things, a Blade movie starring one of Our Generation's best actors in purgatory because they can't figure out how Blade fits into the plan instead of just letting it be a Blade movie.

It's crazy to me that Blade was anything more than a sub-$100 million movie that shouldn't have been something you had to reconsider should be more creatively driven by a filmmaker who needs to be artistic in order to stretch a modest budget it's a movie of vampires to cry out loud do what you did with werewolf by night, but with Blade full of genre and atmosphere, this is how to not only create a compelling and fun Blade movie, but this is how you should approach all your movies. Before concluding this letter, we should not have to talk about dismissal. by Victoria Alonzo and the issues with VFX burnout for those working in post-production for the MCU The witch hunt that began since things started trending downward for Marvel sort of speaks to the isolation of you, Kevin Feige, of responsibility when it comes to studio mistakes, is The George Lucas Effect and I love George Lucas, but when you're surrounded by yes men who will do anything for you because you're the brains that built the MCU , it's not necessarily the best thing you've ever suffered - the outrage of having a failure so you can learn from it and try to do better next time, when you change things at the last minute, you can't expect the VFX artist to respond and work too hard just to adapt to your changing ideas so that they stick to the big plan you have.

You have to take some responsibility here when the entire company treats you like a deity because you own the success of the Infinity Saga, no one is going to speak up and why should they when those who did were eliminated from the equation, you lost. James gives Kevin one of the strongest players on your team because there were better offers elsewhere because you abandoned him when you needed him most and Kevin don't be surprised if that loss becomes your number one competitor. You lost the guy who really understood that. it takes heart and empathy and we need to care about these people for movies to be successful it's not about the connections it's about the stories in short Mr.

Feige, we beg you, we beg you to let the creatives do their thing. let them be the guiding force that forms your universe and determines the direction of whatever phase we are in and that you begin to fade into the background, you begin to develop a democracy and you begin to move away from this monarchy. that you have created I really hope that this is the last time we have to talk like this and maybe you will find a new method to move forward that is similar to the suggestions covered in this letter or maybe you will come up with something even better, you have before, but anyway, do something because continuing down the path the MCU is on is a one-way ticket to jumping into the Sharks BG and I don't want to get off this train just yet.

If you're keeping me away from this, happy holidays, sincerely Griffin.