After the news a couple of days ago that Marvel Studios now answers only to Disney (here) we weren’t expecting more change… but we’re getting them.
It seems that the Marvel Creative Committee has been completed removed from Marvel’s movies (although it still exists for their TV department, oddly).
The committee had some big names in the toy and comics industry including Toy Biz’s Alan Fine, Marvel comic writer Brian Michael Bendis, Dan Buckley, publisher of Marvel Comics, and Joe Quesada, former editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics and the current Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Enterprises an it was their job to read scripts and offer notes, ideas, changes etc as the movie went through the stages of production.
The source of the news at BirthsMoviesDeath, wrote: “One Marvel creative talked to me about battles with the Creative Committee where they focused on details of nit-picky science that ignored the general tone of the script itself. The notes that drove Edgar Wright off Ant-Man came from the Creative Committee. What’s more, the Creative Committee was often very tardy with their notes, making movie development a much slower process. All of the Committee members have other, very important jobs, so you understand why that would be the case, but it was a pain for filmmakers. And that’s before taking into account the political divisions within Marvel that also created friction with the Creative Committee.”
It is expected that this will be a new beginning at Marvel; one that won’t be seen until after Civil War and Dr Strange (as they are both well into production) and will mean that Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito and Victoria Alonso will command the ship from here on in.
While we are big fans of marvel’s output here at FTN, we have recently feared that a certain staleness was beginning to set in and perhaps this is part of the reason these changes have been happening… if this is th case – and even if it isn’t – we’re hopeful about what it will mean for the MCU from here on.
Source: BirthsMoviesDeath
Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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