True but he is one of the few people that made a cinematic universe possible and has a far better record than anyone in Lucasfilm. He definitely benefitted from having Whedon before he became persona non grata as well (yeah Whedon is pretty overrated but he actually pushes back for art over profits like the family scene in Ultron).
I don't think he's capable anymore, for the same reason that Disney isn't. Both have gone off their rockers.
Maybe. I wouldnt be surprised if the crash is also due to Fegie just being out of creative juice. Although the MCU has spanned 15 years of movies, there was always one looming narrative which was Thanos was seeking the infinity stones. From the first Avengers movie, Thanos was always the looming presence and “final boss” of the series. Now that he has been defeated and his story concluded with “endgame,” the MCU should have ended. The fact that Disney is dragging the dead horse past its epilogue is why its so bad now imo.
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When Disney acquired Pixar & Marvel those studios had their own films mapped out for them, that’s why their movies had successes, it’s only now we can see the rules & control that Disney is imposing on them, which is why they are failing now,…Lucasfilm on the other hand had nothing on the slate when Disney bought them, which is why from the offset they moved in the wrong direction.
I didnt know Marvel already had alot of stuff mapped out before the acquisition. I do think Fegie and Whedon worked together pretty carefully in their vision for infinity war before Whedon was forced to leave though with a strict storyboard to adhere to.
Did they? I didn't think they they seriously started mapping out stuff until they started developing Age of Ultron. And that's when they decided to go the Infinity War route.
My mistake. I was thinking of the Easter egg in the first Thor movie.
I'm not totally sure of the what was or wasn't planned out, but the post credits of Avengers (2012) had Thanos for a quick second, which I would imagine was for the Infinity War route.
Yeah. Basically all of the initial movies for phase 1 was hinting toward the Avengers movie with the "Avengers initiative" and even with the Incredible Hulk movie having RDJ coming to Banner about the Avengers (which was retconned along with Hulk). Im guessing that the goal then was just to make an Avengers movie which is already a pretty big ask. Lets remember that everyone not named RDJ was close to a nobody at that point in their careers.
John was is a serial hugger and that didn't go well with the introverts working for him...the "Me too" Movement at the time didn't help a bit...
& apparently a good lot of his old colleagues have left Pixar & have moved to Apple (who used to own Pixar anyway)
Apple? I thought he was head of Skydance Animation.
