In the years since the company's inception, Marvel Studios President of Production Kevin Feige has become the official source for what's going on and what's to come from the publisher's cinematic universe. Even as the head of an organization that famously keeps things close to the vest, Feige has spoken out regularly and enthusiastically about the projects and films that fans desperately want to know about.
Over the course of the past few weeks, Feige has become more vocal about Marvel Studios' plans for Phase Two, explaining to SFX Magazine (via ComingSoon) most recently that his excitement for the second arc of Avengers films hinges on its transcendence of the superhero genre.
"That's exciting to me about 'Cap' — sort of about 'Iron Man 3' too if you look at it — is it's tonally almost like a different genre. Shane Black's described 'Iron Man 3' as a Tom Clancy sort of political thriller, which I like a lot," Feige said. "We hired our directors on 'Cap' because they loved our explanation that we really want to make a '70s political thriller masquerading as a big superhero movie."
While the prospect of genre jumping within superhero films should excite fans as an original and different approach to what's become a familiar arena, it's what Feige said about the still-mysterious "Guardians of the Galaxy" film that may turn out to be the most daring move so far on the studio's part.
