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Have you ever wondered who is behind the great movies you’ve seen on the big screen or maybe in the comfort of your home with your family? Well during my trip to LA we were able to interview the Director Joss Whedon and now Kevin Feige who is the producer of the new movie Avengers Age Of Ultron in Theaters May 1rst!
Just an FYI I might or might not be an unofficial new Avengers Hero. No not really but it would have been cool BUT in all seriousness this was an awesome photo I was able to take during my trip to LA. Which I’m pretty sure my kids will never let me live down. Atleast I was fighting on the good heros side and trying to save humanity. Jumping right into our interview with Kevin Feige we will star off with a great question of why this is no end credit scene to the movie.
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Question : Why is there no end-credit scene? What’s the story behind that?
Kevin Feige : Well, why is there no end-credit scene? Well, there’s a mid-credit scene, as we call it, and we’ve always really said if it’s not a fast and hard rule that there must be something after the credits, and Joss was a firm believer that we shouldn’t do something that seemed like we were aping the scene at the end of it, his version of the story really culminates where it does at the end of the film and with the mid-credits. And everything we just felt like an add-on that wasn’t worth doing. But that’s one of the reasons why he wanted to get it out there so people didn’t sit there for seven minutes and go, what?
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Question: Without the movies and Shield and everything, how many people are on the team that keeps everything straight?
Kevin Feige : Well Shield, uh, television series, you mean? Well there’s a television division; there’s a studio,division and there’s a there’s a solid brain trust of seven or eight of us at the studio that oversee each of the films. And then beyond that, of course, dozens and then hundreds, and then thousands, eventually, on each production.
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Question : In the movie, the team is very cohesive. How much time lapses in between the movies where these actors work together?
Kevin Feige : I’m not sure we ever directly say it, but we always sorta thought it. It’s, it’s between six months to a year after- probably a good year after the events of The Winter Soldier. The Shield has been brought down at the end of The Winter Soldier, after revealing that Hydra had been growing within it, and that there’s a lot of fallout. Some of that is on the television series and some of that we see at the very beginning of this movie, that that scepter- Loki’s which if you look at the end of the first Avengers movie, the last time you see it, Black Widow is holding it in the shadow of all the Avengers as they’re finally taking down Loki.
Um, and our backstories clearly that went into, that went to a Shield- secure Shield, uh, vault somewhere, but of course, Shield was not secure, and, uh, it ended up in the hands of Strucker at the beginning of this film.
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Question : Are we going to see Spiderman make an appearance in the Civil War?
Kevin Feige : Well you know, you’ve heard the announcements- we’ve teamed up with Sony to bring Spidey into our universe and, and doing a new Spidey film in 2017, but I think we’re being less than specific about, about where we’ll, where we’ll see him first.
Question : In general, sometimes people dread spinoffs and sequels, but how does it feel to actually have a fan base that can’t wait for the next release from the studio?
Kevin Feige : It feels great, obviously, and I do think spin offs and things like that when you’re dealing with certain properties, I think I need one thing and can somehow get a bad connotation of meaning. Oh, there’s something that had a little story potential that was interesting, so now they’re gonna try to build the whole big story about it. Well, at Marvel, their big story is about everyone that go back, you know, fifty years and through hundreds of comic issues. So for us, it’s all just exciting.
And what’s really exciting is that the comic fan base was one thing- it’s the solid foundation of everything we do, but now it’s increased dramatically with the film base and with the film fans it gives us a certain amount of pressure and sleepless nights to deliver on expectations each time, but it’s also knowing that people are so excited for, what’s next. And we often have to go, never mind what’s next. Take a look at this because we do want each of the films and Age of Ultron’s our eleventh, Marvel Cinematic Universe film.
We want each of them to stand alone whether you’ve seen the other ten films or not. We believe each film works as a beginning, middle, end into and unto itself. And we worked very hard to do that. All we’re interested in is making one singular great movie at a time.
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Question : Do you have somebody in the Marvel Universe that you really wanna bring in the stories or anything that you haven’t yet?
Kevin Feige : Of characters? Well I used to say Guardians of the Galaxy to that question. I used to say vision to that question, I used to say Falcon; I used to say, [AUDIENCE LAUGHS] and I used to say Doctor Strange a lot and obviously we we’re deep into that with Benedict Cumberbatch now. We start filming in November. So it’s really been amazing. Now, it does come down to individual and specific characters, but if I say too many of them, it’ll give away exactly what we’re doing with Guardians 2 or with the future ones.
But it’s not a testament to the Marvel comics and how deep its bench is that there’s still hundreds of great characters that we haven’t even touched yet.
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Question: What was it like to bring in Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch into this movie?
Kevin Feige : It was great. I mean they’re key Avengers characters in the books. They have a great back story that we really wanted to explore and they have a great relationship, the two of them, that we really wanted to explore together, and it was one of Joss’s very first notions- probably second notion after Ultron, to bring them in, who have a very different viewpoint of the Avengers who come into the team from a very different angle than any of the other characters.
The other characters were sort of assembled together by Nick Fury in the first movie and, and Thor obviously came into the mix because of the presence of Loki and now having characters come in from a totally different side- which is also a very Marvel thing to do. There are a lot of Marvel characters who start on the other side of a disagreement, or the other side an argument or the other side of the law that you know through a great Marvel redemptive arc become heroes. We wanted to do that in an Avengers movie.
Question : Were you big in the Marvel comics as a kid, and did you have, a favorite character when you were little?
Kevin Feige : I was more into movies as a kid and I had a lot of favorite movies. I remember a story in particular when I was in the backyard with a bunch of friends of mine when we were, I don’t know, say eight years old- ten years old. And we were playing super heroes, and somebody had chosen Batman, somebody had chosen Superman, and somebody had chosen Spiderman and I remember going, well, I’ll be Iron Man. I’ll play Iron Man because I’d seen him in the reruns of the old ’60s cartoon.
And some kids didn’t even know who he was. I was like, he’s cool. He’s Iron Man. Trust me. So that was fun bringing him to life after some kids didn’t hear of him when I chose him in the backyard thirty two years ago.
AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
MARVEL STUDIOS
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Genre: Action-Adventure
Rating: TBD
U.S. Release date: May 1, 2015
Running Time: TBD
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård with James Spader and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
Writer/Director: Joss Whedon
Producer: Kevin Feige, p.g.a.
Executive Producers: Louis D’Esposito, Alan Fine, Victoria Alonso, Jeremy Latcham, Patricia Whitcher, Stan Lee, Jon Favreau
Stacie @ Divine Lifestyle says
I’m so excited for Age of Ultron. I love the first Avengers movie, and I’ve been chomping at the bit for this one since I first started hearing the rumors about it.
Ray says
Great interview as usual! Also thanks for the good laugh on the avenger poster picture with you throwing kick!
Interview with Kevin Feige was good! It’s very interesting how can make a character come to life on the screen or make them popular with public
Jeanine says
What a great interview! So much hype around avengers we will have to see it! My oldest keeps bugging and can’t wait to see it!
Robin Rue (@massholemommy) says
I am super excited for this movie. I loved the first one and have been dying for this one to come out.
Crystal Green says
I can’t wait to see this movie. My entire family is chomping at the bit to see this one. We’ve watched all of the other Avengers movies, and this will be no exception.
touristmeetstraveler says
Just saw the movie an hour ago, it was surely nothing but amazing; I love it so much and can’t believe all that happened!
Donna Ward says
Very cool – I actually read some of this to my hubby while he was driving to work – and will send him the link – what a great opportunity you had for this interview – Congratulations 🙂
Gabriel says
Really happy with the job they’ve done on all the comic adadptations, just wish they’d hurry up with getting Iron Fist into some action!
Fi Ní Neachtáin says
Wow, I am reading so much about this movie at the moment. Everyone is so excited for it aren’t they?!
Erin @ Sugar Crumbs says
Oh gosh. I can’t even begin to explain how excited I am to see this movie!!! I wanted to go last night but it was sold out. lol
Mistee Dawn says
What an awesome interview and what a great experience. I cannot wait to see this film!
Michelle Varga (@dustbunniesblog) says
Sounds like a spectacular movie and I can’t wait to see it! There are so many great actors in this and it seems they put a lot of work into the production.
roselynn787 says
I just came back from watching this movie tonight and I am still trying to take it all in. Fantastic movie, it definitely leaves a long lasting impression as a Marvel fan.
Maria-Teresa Andreacchi says
Cant wait to see this movie. My boyfriend and i loved the first Avengers movie im sure this next one will top it! Pretty much anything that marvel puts out is gold!
Amby Felix says
So super awesome! I’m such a fan of MARVEL and although we had to cancel seeing it when it premiered due to a bad cold we are super looking forward to seeing it later this week!
Debi says
I love reading these interviews. It gets me so excited for the movie. Not that I needed any help for this one.
Bradley Finnearty says
I know a lot of people who want to see this movie when it comes out. I will point them to this post.