{"id":13298,"date":"2025-07-21T16:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/13298\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:04:10","slug":"kevin-feige-talks-his-seven-year-plan-for-marvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/13298\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Feige Talks His \u2018Seven Year Plan\u2019 For Marvel"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a big week for Marvel. The studio is finally unveiling The Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/a> in a matter of days \u2013 perhaps its most important film since Endgame<\/a>, finally bringing characters who couldn\u2019t be more a cornerstone of Marvel\u2019s comics history into the MCU<\/a> at last. Since Marvel\u2019s First Family has never quite been captured right on the big screen, First Steps is a chance to turn things around. And clearly the studio sees this as the start of a new era in Marvel \u2013 not just the beginning of \u2018Phase Six\u2019, but an ideal opportunity to pull back the curtain on the future of the cinematic behemoth.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, Marvel boss Kevin Feige invited several US outlets to its headquarters for a big sit-down conversation \u2013 talking about the next steps for Marvel Studios. There, he teased that the studio has \u201ca seven-year plan\u201d, as Deadline reports, that \u201cgoes to 2032.\u201d Those plans aren\u2019t all set in stone (\u201cIt\u2019s on magnets, it can move around,\u201d Feige said) but they contain the essence of Marvel\u2019s future plan. While the more immediate future will bring Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/a> in summer 2026, and the double-whammy of Avengers: Doomsday (currently in production, due in December 2026) and Avengers: Secret Wars (down for 2027), there are big things to come.<\/p>\n

One of which is \u2013 still \u2013 the Mahershala Ali-starring Blade. It\u2019s been years in development now<\/a>, with several false starts, which Feige was open about. \u201cYou can start and have a good script and make it a great script through production, but we didn\u2019t feel confident we could do that on Blade,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe didn\u2019t want to do that to Mahershala and didn\u2019t want to do that to us.\u201d While some shelved versions of the film were set in the 1930s (recently, it was reported that period Blade costumes were sold to Sinners<\/a>\u2019 production), Feige stated that \u201cwe landed on modern day and that\u2019s what we\u2019re focusing on.\u201d There\u2019s still no confirmation of when Blade is expected to land, but Marvel seems intent on doing it right. \u201cWe didn\u2019t want to put a leather outfit on [Ali] and have him start killing vampires,\u201d said Feige. (Though, that sounds like the right general idea.)<\/p>\n

Also on the horizon is a new generation of X-Men, expected to land in the wake of Secret Wars<\/a> \u2013 of which Feige spoke about how it will somewhat reset things after the reality-shattering sprawl of the Multiverse Saga. \u201cReset, singular timeline \u2014 we\u2019re thinking along those lines,\u201d he said, as reported by Variety. He added that: \u201c\u2018X-Men\u2019 is where that will happen next.\u201d While discussions of Marvel\u2019s X-Men plans remain largely under wraps, Feige did indicate that the film \u2013 reported to be directed by Thunderbolts*<\/a>\u2019s Jake Schreier \u2013 will focus on a young, fresh cast. \u201c[X-Men comics] have been a place to tell stories about young people who feel different and who feel Other and who feel like they don\u2019t belong,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s the universal story of mutants, and that is where we\u2019re going.\u201d<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen exactly how The Fantastic Four: First Steps will land with critics and audiences, and if Marvel can work back towards the giddy heights of Endgame. Whatever happens from here, the saga is far from over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is a big week for Marvel. The studio is finally unveiling The Fantastic Four: First Steps in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-13298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}