Marvel Studios has been making a lot of changes to its plans lately. Sometimes it’s due to indecision, sometimes it’s due to genuine necessity. The biggest recent example is moving away from Kang as the arch-villain of the multiverse saga and instead casting Doctor Doom… played by Iron Man veteran Robert Downey Jr., because things are mostly not looking good right now. Meanwhile, on the TV side of things, we’re still stuck with baffling shows like Vision.
Inverse recently had the opportunity to sit down with Feige ahead of the record-breaking release of Deadpool vs. Wolverine. The entire conversation is extremely revealing and well worth reading, but one thing about the studio’s hiring process stood out.
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In most cases, the big Hollywood studios either accept proposals or have ideas developed in-house that they hope to convince filmmakers and showrunners to implement. In the case of Vision (or White Vision, as fans distinguish the character from the regular, dead Vision), it seems Marvel boss Kevin Feige himself is pursuing Terry Matalas because he loved the ending of Star Trek: Picard Season 3.
“That’s how I got to know him…because he did such a great job on Picard season 3. I said: This is incredible. I don’t know how this exists. Let me find the people who made it,” he explained. Judging by the Rotten Tomatoes critic and audience scores, it’s clear that Picard bounced back with its third and final season, perhaps because it doubled down on its core characters and paid great respect to the legacy for the next generation (at least that’s what most fans thought). Regardless of how you feel about the show as a whole, it looks like the new direction worked in the end, so it makes sense that Feige would want to critique Matalas after he helmed the second and third seasons of the series.
As Inverse’s Ryan Britt points out, Feige’s love of Star Trek has never gone unnoticed, so it’s no surprise that he’s trying to co-opt creative talent from Paramount’s ongoing TV expansion of the iconic sci-fi franchise, especially as many of the Disney+ Marvel shows have also struggled. What’s next in that space? Well, another WandaVision spinoff: Agatha Always. Despite some recent comments about wanting to slow down the Marvel machine a bit, we haven’t seen much sign of change.
