I grew up on Marvel and, like, ‘2000 AD.’
So when we were building that superhero workout, that Marvel body, it was really important for us not to sacrifice range of motion and explosiveness, because I’ve still got to be able to throw a punch at the end of the day.
DC are playing catch up with Marvel because of things like ‘The Avengers’ breaking six hundred million domestic.
I asked my agents, ‘Can you just keep calling them and get me a seat in the room to chat to them about it?’ And Marvel met me.
It can’t really happen today the way it did back then and part of that is because I think there’s a bit of a competitive scare over at Marvel and DC so they lock guys up with exclusive contracts.
I’m the luckiest guy in the world. I got to direct a movie involving three of my favorite things in the world: space operas, Marvel superheroes and raccoons.
I’ve always been a Marvel fan, always been a ‘Deadpool’ fan.
Unlike Marvel, we are not setting up redundant organizations for expertise that exists. We will track all DC properties to measure financial success.
Marvel is really about the stories of Peter Parker and Bruce Banner or Jessica Jones. These are – I’m hesitant to say the word, but – real people with real problems whose power comes, to use the great expression, with great responsibility.
I grew up reading comics – mostly Marvel – Doctor Strange was my favourite comic book and has remained my favourite as an adult. It’s the only comic book movie property I’ve ever gone after. I felt uniquely suited to it.
You can’t watch ‘Daredevil’ or ‘Jessica Jones’ or the Marvel films and not be aware that the villain has to be awesome. I’ve always wanted to have more space. And the scope, morally, is more broad for the villain than the hero.
There’s a character, Eon, I did back in the ‘Captain Marvel’ story. Eon came from a greasy smudge on a paper bag inside my kitchen being used for garbage. I went and got a paper and pencil, drew it up, and he became a character in that story. Things come from everywhere.
I love comedy. It’s something that I think Marvel does so well, and it’s one of the reasons I love Marvel so much is the quips that you get: that kind of underlying everything and cutting through the very heavy emotional stuff.
Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.
Here’s the deal: 25 years’ worth of Deadpool. This movie comes out 25 years to the day we published him at Marvel, and you couldn’t get a better gift if you’re a ‘Deadpool’ fan.
I got this secretive, very secretive email from my agent saying, ‘You have an audition for Marvel, no one’s letting us know what the name of the film is, but are you available on this day? That’s all we know.’ And I went, ‘OK, well, I think it will probably be ‘Thor,’ because Taika’s got it.’
I believe in the cultural significance of the Marvel Universe and ‘Kim’s Convenience.’ They are two weapons in the same fight and they mean everything to me and the possibilities of what they can represent.
When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
I found that the artist market was expanding in comics. Marvel was going from something like eight books a month to somewhere in the 20s. As a result of this expansion, Marvel, in particular, was hiring anyone who could hold a pencil. That’s how I got my first job there.
The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
I’d like to get into the superhero genre. I’d love to do either a DC or a Marvel character.
We don’t have Latina heroines in theaters; I haven’t seen Marvel doing it.
The direct market has evolved into a machine that is very good at selling corporate-owned superhero titles published by two main companies: DC and Marvel.
I love the Marvel movies, but I always feel like we should be a step ahead of the movies. One of the reasons those movies have been so good and so successful is that they’ve been very good at mining the comics.
First and foremost, stepping into something like a Marvel project is insane. I mean, my character is from 1968, and she’s the second female X-Men ever. It’s exciting, but it’s also a great amount of pressure to do right by the character.
As I’ve grown older, I have begun to marvel… at how much of my life I have spent among ghosts. These are no malevolent presences… Rather, they are such restless spirits as only the strange twentieth-century cocktail of celebrity, technology and collective memory could produce.
Since being at Marvel, I’ve been watching everything over and over and over again, all the movies, and seeing how all the movies connect has been very satisfying for me.
I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn’t mean that my team hasn’t spoken to Marvel.
I’d like to have had a bigger piece of Thanos than I do, but when the first ‘Avengers’ movie came out, Marvel and I – we renegotiated some things, so I get a taste out of this thing. I’m not becoming the next Bill Gates, but I’m getting a little something out of it.
A crowded ferry ride away from Tanzania’s coastal city, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar is a marvel for the senses. Every sight and smell is provocative, inspiring a sense of the old and new.
I had never seen a Marvel comic.
When you leave WWE, like, when I left, I was thinking, ‘Maybe I’ll take, like, a year off, and in that year, I’ll probably do a Marvel movie, maybe a couple of movies. I don’t know.’ And, obviously, completely unrealistic.
‘Runaways’ was exciting because it was something brand-new and fresh, and I’m hoping to be able to bend the rules in my own way of what a Marvel superhero story can be.
I genuinely enjoy the puzzle put before me with a crossover – how do I use this bigger piece of the Marvel Universe to tell a character-based tale I wouldn’t normally think to tell?
Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it’s a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books.
What’s great about MCU and certainly the Marvel of it, everyone is unique, it’s got its own DNA.
If there are two kinds of people in the world – DC Comics people and Marvel Comics people – what kind am I? Well, to be honest… I’m a Wildstorm kinda guy. In the interest of full and fair disclosure, I write for Wildstorm. But even if I didn’t, I’d love what they do. No, seriously, I’d love their stuff.
I really like big swashbuckling superhero films, but I feel like that Marvel universe is not adult enough.
The first time I tried on Shang-Chi’s superhero suit – Marvel has never had an Asian lead, so that was such a rare and impactful moment, for me as an actor but also for people who look like me. I nearly cried. It was so emotional.
I’m not going to head off and do a Marvel film. So if I don’t do a Marvel film, I don’t have any other choice – I’ve got to go make a small New Zealand movie!
As a fanboy, I was raised on the Marvel Universe, so I was very familiar with the ‘Deadpool’ world. On the other side, the ‘X-Men’ comics were one of my top five comics, so to be one of them, especially Colossus, is an incredible thing after years of creatively visualizing him since I was a kid.
Basically, Marvel always have an executive on every film. So we had Kevin Wright. And there’s kind of a Kevin Wright on every production that is essentially your producer, but they’re also the Marvel gatekeeper, I guess, or the overseer.
Marvel Studios has depicted the Marvel superheroes so beautifully that the whole world loves them.
The Marvel catalogue of 9,000 characters really is that rich. It isn’t just a bunch of guys running around with capes and cowls who have secret identities and fight across the street from each other.
