The factor that made the MCU work was additionally the factor that grew to become its downfall. With so many exhibits and movies all present in the identical world and interacting in unusual methods, it slowly grew to become troublesome to sustain. Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige is aware of that followers have been struggling to sustain with every little thing, which is why, beginning with The Improbable 4: First steps, he’s taking “no homework” method to future Marvel initiatives.
The feedback got here as the MCU architect sat down to talk to reporters forward of The Improbable 4: First Steps. He defined that the introduction of Marvel’s First Household into the MCU had at all times been deliberate to permit followers to merely drop into the world with out having seen something forward of time.
“We at all times have been planning, even earlier than that grew to become a speaking level, to introduce them in their very own world through which they are the one heroes,” Kevin Feige mentioned. “It’s a no-homework-required film. It actually will not be related to something we’ve made earlier than.”
That method is one that he says works for the Improbable 4, however it additionally labored for DC Studios’ Superman. “I favored it lots,” he mentioned in regards to the James Gunn-directed movie, which opened only a few weeks earlier than The Improbable 4: First Steps. “I like you simply leap proper into it. You don’t know who Mister Terrific is? Powerful, you’ll determine it out. It is a absolutely fleshed out world.”
That method to making superhero movies appears to have labored for each DC and Marvel; each Superman and The Improbable 4: First Steps have had a optimistic run on the field workplace thus far, so right here’s hoping that they proceed to push for more standalone movies that don’t depend on followers being plugged into the total MCU to perceive.