Marvel’s film boss assures more woman-led movies are coming

Ever since 2017’s ‘Wonder Woman’ hit theaters and proceeded to break box office records, it has been shown that, when executed properly, woman-led superhero films can be just as good as their male counterparts. No company knows this better than Marvel, which is preparing to launch its first woman-led superhero movie next year in the […]

Ever since 2017’s ‘Wonder Woman’ hit theaters and proceeded to break box office records, it has been shown that, when executed properly, woman-led superhero films can be just as good as their male counterparts. No company knows this better than Marvel, which is preparing to launch its first woman-led superhero movie next year in the form of the long-anticipated ‘Captain Marvel’. According to Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, Marvel has plans for more movies focused on women superheroes.
“With [‘Ant-Man and The Wasp’] and now with ‘Captain Marvel’ and many movies to be announced in the near future, I’m anxious for the time where it’s not a novelty that there is a female-led superhero movie, but it is a norm,” said Feige in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “And it is less a story of, ‘Oh, look, a female hero,’ and it’s more a story of, ‘Oh, what’s this about? Who’s this character? I’m excited to see that.’ And I think we can get there.”
As of this point, the only other woman-led superhero movie Marvel has in development is a Black Widow solo film with Scarlett Johansson reprising her role as the deadly former assassin. This year’s ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’, despite having a woman title character, had more of a focus on the titular duo learning how to work as a team. Nonetheless, it can’t be denied that it has taken Marvel a long time to get to this point, which is a fact Feige is cognizant of.
“I think there are a lot of reasons,” said Feige, “not the least of which was fighting for many years the erroneous notion that audiences did not want to see a female-led hero [film] because of a slew of films 15 years ago that didn’t work. And my belief was always that they didn’t work not because they were female-led stories – they didn’t work because they were not particularly good movies.”
Source: CBR.com