Marvel Advises DC

Its common knowledge that Marvel has had a bigger success that DC bringing their titles to the big screen, while DC have been stuck with the same titles over the years (Superman and Batman). It’s also common knowledge that DC have been trying to bring their own Avengers, The Justice League to the big screen, but it seems that every time they make some progress, the project gets sent back to the drawing board, it’s the case of two steps forward one step back.  

Recently Collider meets up with Marvels responsible for bringing their titles to the big screen, Kevin Feige for an interview.

“Steve:  If you could give any advice to DC and their Justice League movie, what would you tell them?

Feige:  I don’t know.  I’m sure they have smart people over there who have a plan and know what they’re doing.  Man of Steel looks like it’s going to be awesome and obviously Dark Knightis awesome.  I don’t know.  It’s what I say all the time and have said over the years, which is, have confidence in the characters, believe in the source material, don’t be afraid to stay true to all of the elements of the characters no matter how seemingly silly or crazy they are.  I don’t know, I think the Marvel characters have a bit of a leg up for all the reasons that Marvel fans are aware of in terms of the emotional complexity of the characters and the flawed nature of the characters.  Those are obviously the elements we want to accentuate amongst all the action.”

Feige also acknowledge that if it weren’t for the Justice League there probably wouldn’t be an Avengers.  

“Feige: I think there have been a lot of great DC stories and there are a lot of great DC characters, and if they focus on those things the audience will be interested.  It was a very unique model that we were lucky enough to be able to do – introducing each individual hero before introducing The Avengers.  That, to me, is what was always interesting about The Avengers.  The Avengers are notThe Guardians of the Galaxy, are not The Dirty Dozen, where you spend a movie introducing each character and putting them together for the first time.  The Avengers was cool because they were preexisting characters that teamed up for a big event.  I think that’s why Justice League was cool, Justice League was first.  That’s what they did first in comic form.”

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