Warning: Thor: Ragnarok spoilers are discussed in this interview.
Thor: Ragnarokis now playing around the world.
In the run-up to the Marvel films release, I got to sit down with Marvel Studios PresidentKevin Feige.
I absolutely loved this movie.
I had a smile on my face beginning to end.
I cant recommend Waititis film enough.
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Everyone prepares for you like a big game day thing.
Do you know what you’re willing to reveal when you come into a press day like this?
KEVIN FEIGE: Sort of.
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I’ve never done that before.
[laughs]
FEIGE: I’m like, when did I say that?
I was like, that was like five months ago.
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I think it’s fun.
I usually just don’t talk about anything I don’t want to talk about, as you know.
I wanted to do some spoiler questions, which will run after release.
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Like, in one eye, or is his eye going to magically gonna come back?"
Cause theAvengers: Infinity Warfootage you showed did not have him missing an eye.
FEIGE: Some of the commercials for this film have him not missing an eye.
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Showing footage where he has.
So you don’t know what’s going on.
Like we didn’t want to spoil that in any of the footage we shot.
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No, we didn’t think about that.
We thought about what’s fun for the character.
What’s cool for the character.
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Not Are we sullying our good-looking actor?
He looks good in any way.
In any way, shape and form.
I have found that women do seem to like him.
It’s been a thing.
So basically the losing an eye is a permanent thing going forward?
FEIGE: I didn’t say that.
I think Thor will, either way, it could happen.
FEIGE: There’ll be lots of evolutions for lots of characters over the course of the next twoAvengersfilms.
I love the cameo with Matt Damon and Chris’s brother, [Luke Hemsworth].
I think it’s a fantastic
FEIGE: And Sam Neill.
I apologize for leaving Sam out.
How did that come about?
How tough was it to get Matt to do this?
FEIGE: There was an idea in the script phase.
We then watched whatever was the season before lastGame of Thrones.
But then it’s different enough.
He was willing to come in and do Odin.
So who could be Loki?
Who could be Loki?
Who could be Loki?
We didn’t have any brilliant ideas.
I said, “Matt who?”
He said, “My friend, Matt Damon.”
Sure Chris, ask your friend Matt Damon.
Give me a break.
He’s not doing this.
Oh he’s gonna do it.
He’s flying down.
It is very surreal and very amazing.
I just met him for the first time last night.
What an awesome thing, for him to come down here for his friend.
It was purely based on his friendship with Hemsworth that he came and did this.
Is there an element of you’re saying to yourself, We can put him in this.
It’s a great bit, but we might be risking putting him in future Marvel movies?
It could be the adventures of a hard-working actor, Asgardian actor, in the future.
The mid-credit scene has a very large ship.
There’s been a lot of debate among fans as to whose ship it is.
FEIGE: Did Loki steal a Tesseract?
I’m just gonna go out on a ledge and say he has.
FEIGE: It’s funny you say that because
Or borrowed.
Maybe borrowed is a better term.
Then we had him run, look at it, cut away, everybody looks at it.
It’s just a little artistic editing tricks there.
It could be any of the above or none of the above.
You won’t have to wait long to find out.
It was like a whole bunch of alts that could’ve been in the credit scenes.
It was clearly not a tie.
There’s gonna be a lot of stuff on that disc.
Not that stuff, which I just forgot about that.
We gotta get that on there.
Everything with Jeff Goldblum needs to be included.
FEIGE: There’s a lot.
FEIGE: I think it’s early days.
I’m thinking that the only way the app is gonna work is if there is cool content.
FEIGE: I think that’s the idea.
How Marvel fits into that, I don’t know yet.
You guys are coming up on the 10-year anniversary.
I would imagine there might be cool things planned or what are you guys talking about, if anything?
Those are the primary focus.
They made a logo, they had t-shirts, they did small stuff.
That was during the dark ages ofStar Wars, where there hadn’t been anything.
There’ll be some merchandise released and some re-releases in home video.
Primarily it is all leading up to the three movies in particular, and obviously,Infinity War.
I know I’m basically out of time, but I want to ask some real quick things.
Do you know what the 2020 movies are?
Do you know when you’ll be announcing them?
Do you know when you’ll be announcing them?
It won’t be for a while.
Our focus is on the next six movies.
Is aDoctor Strangesequel in the cards?
FEIGE: Certainly, we would love to tell more about theStrangestory.
My last thing for you.
Obviously the Russo Brothers are phenomenal directors.
I’m just curious what has surprised you aboutInfinity Warthat you weren’t expecting.
I’ve heard nothing but great things about the script.
FEIGE: I don’t know if anything surprises me necessarily, but it is overwhelming.
I guess what has surprised me is how emotional it all is.
I like to focus on, I’m already inBlack Pantherworld, even though were talking aboutRagnarok.
There is something very special about those movies that is happening everyday on set.
Joe and Anthony handling it, two movies at the same time, in an unprecedented fashion.
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