In Marvel Studios They are more than aware of the recent critical and box office failures in projects like ‘The Marvels’ or ‘Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania’. Its top managers, Louis D’Esposito and Kevin Feigeadmit that having diversified too much in cinema and series of Marvel It has been a monumental mistake, since quantity has been prioritized over quality. And in this regard They have taken action on the matterseriously limiting the big annual releases.
Kevin Feige and Louis D’Esposito have learned from Marvel Studios’ recent mistakes
In a recent interview with Empire magazine, Louis D’Esposito and Kevin Feige have revealed what they consider to be the keys to Marvel’s resurgence. First of all, The number of annual projects has been drastically reduced: While in recent years we have had several Marvel movie and series releases each year, In 2024 the only major release that will be in movie theaters will be ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’the third installment of the Merc with a Mouth saga starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman.
D’Esposito declared that “It has been a hard year”. The co-president of Marvel Studios believes that if they had continued linking success after success, “It would have been the worst thing that could happen”. But since they have suffered a setback, that allows them “come back stronger than before”. The Marvel manager also considers that “When you diversify too much, you dilute your own essence”admitting that faced with a greater number of projects per year, all of them have not had the quality that could be expected if they had been focused on a smaller number.
On the other hand, Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, believes that the setback is good for them and that are “more comfortable not generating so many expectations”alluding to these recent failures and arguing that this way they once again have the ability to surprise fans and spectators of all the world. “I’m more comfortable not being the favorite. I prefer to be able to surprise and exceed expectations. So this last year, which has not been ideal for us, has put us on this path.”declared Feige.
‘Deadpool and Wolverine’: Marvel Studios’ big bet for 2024
‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ premieres on July 25, 2024 in Spain. This third installment of ‘Deadpool’ is the first film in the saga released under the Marvel Studios label after Disney’s purchase of Fox.
In this feature film, Wade Wilson/Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) is recruited by the AVT to help them stop a dangerous variant of Cassandra Novathe twin sister of Charles Xavier himself and with similar psychic abilities. During the process will recruit another variant of Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) to help him defeat Nova.
The film is directed by Shawn Levy, producer of Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’, and who has also collaborated with Ryan Reynolds in the past on other productions such as ‘Free Guy’ (2021) or ‘The Adam Project’ (2022). The script is written by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Zeb Wells and Levy and Reynolds themselves.
