Being
the CCO or Chief Creative Officer in a company like Marvel, must be one heck of
a job, image being able to see what exactly is behind the curtains of not only
the comics, but cartoons, movies and now live action tv series. Well that has been
the job of CCO Joe Quesada for the past three years.
In
an interview to CBR, Quesada talked about Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and
Disney’s first take on Marvel material, with Big Hero 6.
"What
strikes me as interesting about the world of live action television is how much
it reminds me of comics publishing. Comics are weekly grind. Every Wednesday,
retailers have to have product to sell, so the books have to go out. The amount
of creative work and the mental energy put towards that content on a daily
basis is stunning and really daunting if we had the luxury to really sit and
think about the Sisyphean task for a second. Weekly episodic television is very
much like that. The big difference of course is that you do get some time off
to recharge a bit."
Quesada
also talked about other Marvel characters appearing in "Agents of
S.H.I.E.L.D." like Dr. Franklin Hall, aka Graviton.
"There
were several reasons for using Hall. If you're a long time Marvel fan, of
course you'll recognize the name, and we knew that would pique interest. It's
always fun to throw in an established character when you can to get fans
excited. Heck, it gets us excited! But he's also a very compelling character on
his own. So if you're not a comic fan, he's a character you'll be introduced to
who we think will appeal to folks who don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of
the MU, especially this incarnation that our "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
writing team has come up with. Of course our loyal fans know that some
interesting things happen to Dr. Franklin Hall in the pages of our comics, and
while I'm not saying that those things happen here, the fact that perhaps someday
they might is kind of cool."
Live-action
tv isn't the last venture for Disney and Marvel either as they're already hard
at work on their first animated film Big Hero 6, which Quesada also spoke
about.
""Big
Hero 6" is really looking great. Don Hall, Kristina Reed and the entire
crew are such amazingly talented people and have such a love for all things
Marvel that it's been an absolute blast working with them. They've really taken
the BH6 property, which at the end of the day doesn't have a lot of publishing
history behind it, and built an entire world and mythology around it."
"Being
there from the very beginning, the process has been amazing to watch. The
amount of research Don and his crew have done is exhaustive and beyond
thorough, and I don't just mean with respect to reading the comics. From the
design of the characters and their tech to the look of the world, no stone has
been left unturned and a lot of frequent flyer miles have been tallied up to
get where they are at this juncture. These guys have traveled the globe to make
BH6 the very best it can be."
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