Kevin Feige Breaks Silence on His Marvel Future as Contract Nears End

Kevin Feige has been the face of Marvel Studios for a long time, but it wasn’t always that way. His early career started behind the scenes, working as an assistant to executive producer Lauren Shuler Donner.

He worked on movies like Volcano in 1997 and You’ve Got Mail in 1998. But his real break came with the first X-Men film in 2000. Thanks to his deep knowledge of Marvel comics, Donner made him an associate producer on that movie. This move impressed Avi Arad, Marvel Studios’ boss at the time, and Feige was brought on as a producer, becoming Arad’s second-in-command.

In the mid-2000s, Feige started thinking bigger. Even though Spider-Man, Blade, and the X-Men were being handled by other studios, Marvel still owned the rights to its core Avengers characters. Inspired by what Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had done in the comics, Feige dreamed of creating a shared movie universe for Marvel’s heroes. That idea would soon change Hollywood.

By 2007, Feige was promoted to president of production at Marvel Studios. A year later, after Iron Man’s massive success, he officially became president of the studio. His vision for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) started to come to life, movie by movie.

Feige’s work hasn’t gone unnoticed. In 2013, he received the Motion Picture Showman of the Year award from the International Cinematographers Guild. Later, his work on Black Panther earned him big nominations, including an Oscar and a Golden Globe. In 2019, he was awarded the David O. Selznick Achievement Award by the Producers Guild of America.

Feige even had his eye on galaxies far, far away. In 2019, news broke that he was developing a Star Wars movie for Lucasfilm, although that project was quietly dropped by 2023. Around the same time, Marvel promoted Feige further, naming him chief creative officer of not just Marvel Studios, but also Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Comics, Marvel Television, and Marvel Animation.

But what about his future? Feige’s contract with Marvel Studios ends in two years, but according to his own words, he’s not planning to leave. Talking about what lies ahead, he told Deadline, “Do I want to be making big movies for big audiences in ten or 15 years from now? Yes, that’s all I want to do. Marvel is great way to do that.”

For now, it seems the man behind the MCU isn’t stepping away anytime soon.