Kevin Feige Praises ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’, Disses ‘X-Men: The Last Stand’
Though it’s based on a Marvel Comics story,X-Men: Days of Future Pastisn’t a Marvel Studios movie. But that doesn’t mean the president of Marvel Studios can’t enjoy it all the same.Kevin Feige, who helped produce the originalX-Mentrilogy, praised the latest installment as a “very good” way to kickstart the franchise.
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Of course, it’s easy enough for Feige to be magnanimous when his Marvel Cinematic Universe is running circles around everyone else’s comic book franchises. But he’s not wrong — it was a very good movie, and hopefully the start of a new chapter in the long-running series.
As much as he likedDays of Future Past, though, it seems he wasn’t such a fan of 2006’sX-Men: The Last Stand. Feige name-checked the trilogy-closer as an example of whatnotto do while speaking aboutIron Man 3.
“OnIron Man 3, I thought a lot aboutX-Men 3andSpider-Man 3and I thought a lot aboutToy Story 3, and how to avoid falling into threequelitis, which is why we went down a lot of the roads we went down on that movie,” he explained.
Lest you think Feige’s just being mean here, we should point out that he executive produced bothX-Men 3andSpider-Man 3. In fact, Fox’s X-Men films have a very special place in his career. He started out as an assistant producer working underLauren Shuler Donner, and 2000’sX-Menwas the first producing credit he ever received.
Anyway, Feige’s affection for those mutants isn’t going to stop him from trying to top them. His next major release isAvengers: Age of Ultron, in which Marvel Studios will introduce its own take on Quicksilver, to be played byAaron Taylor-Johnson– just one year afterEvan Petersplayed the Fox version inX-Men: Days of Future Past.
