Kevin Feige Talks “Avengers: Doomsday” Filming
Following Marvel Studios’ revealing the first “Avengers: Doomsday” footage at CinemaCon on Thursday night in Las Vegas, the studio’s chief Kevin Feige has spoken some more about what fans can expect.
An official synopsis from the company confirms that the film will see “heroes from three distinct universes will be set on a deadly collision course and face an existential threat unlike anything they’ve ever encountered”. Those universes being the X-Men, Fantastic Four and the main MCU one/
Talking with EW, Feige spoke about the inspiration for the new film, which is believed to be inspired by Jonathan Hickman’s work on the “Avengers” comics:
“We’re not talking too much about story, but I think people know that the story of Doomsday is inspired by a very famous comic run in which universes are colliding and earths encounter one another and different timelines encounter one another, and in movie speak, what that allows us to do is get different casts from different franchises.
Now that they [X-Men] are back home, we thought: We have to utilise them. Deadpool & Wolverine was our first opportunity to do that and touch upon it, and it just felt like an amazing opportunity to pit multiple universes against each other, but you care about all of them. Bringing them all together is what we have tasked the brothers with doing for us.”
Feige also spoke about Magneto actor Sir Ian McKellen’s comments during an interview a few months back, in which he seemed to indicate his character “destroys New Jersey”.
Turning to co-director Joe Russo, Feige asked: “Does he destroy New Jersey in the movie?” to which Russo responded: “I think he might’ve misspoke. I don’t think he destroys New Jersey.” Feige added: “There’s a New Jersey presence.” Nothing further on that front.
Speaking with Fandango, he was asked how “Avengers: Doomsday” connects to “Avengers: Secret Wars” and says:
“People familiar with the comic stories see that they will relate. They relate in a very different way than ‘Infinity War’ and ‘Endgame.’ I think people are expecting a similar connection, and while one certainly does lead into the other, it’s in a very different way. I will say that ‘Secret Wars’ is as ambitious a project as we’ve ever embarked on.”
He also reportedly confirmed that some of the sets from the “X-Men” films were reused in ‘Doomsday’ and that there were days of filming where 30–35 actors were on set at the same time.
“Avengers: Doomsday” is set to be released in cinemas on December 18th.