Marvel Boss Kevin Feige On ‘Fantastic Four’, ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’

Marvel Studios Pdwellnt Kevin Feige can difficultly paparticipate for the Fantastic Four‘s entry to in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the X-Men’s future includement.

Feige made a inhabit virtual materializeance at the findlooking of the Disney APAC Content Showcase, held in Singapore, talked up the future of the MCU ahead of The Fantastic Four: First Steps‘ free next year. Appearing onscreen at the showcase wearing a blue Fantastic Four cap, he pointed at the hat when asked which Marvel title he was most excited for in 2025.

“Finpartner, [we’re] transporting Marvel’s First Family into the MCU,” shelp Feige. “They wrap next week, the movie comes out next summer, and then all those characters go right into the next Avengers movies, so I’m very excited for the future of the Fantastic Four.”

The film stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Josephine Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bacrach, Mark Ruffalo, Julia Garner and others in an ensemble cast. It will begin Phase Six of the MCU, with Feige producing.

Feiged shelp that Thunderbolts*, set to premiere in May 2025, is “what Marvel is all about.” The film stars the appreciates of Florence Pugh ads Yelena Belova, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes and David Harbour as Red Guardian, who establish an antihero group who carry out missions from the U.S. rulement.

“It’s taking characters from all contrastent types of places and franchises and putting them together,” he shelp. “That’s what the Avengers is, that’s what Guardians of the Galaxy is.”

On transporting the X-Men into the MCU, Feige shelp: “I leank you will see that persists in our next scant movies with some X-Men joiners that you might acunderstandledge. Right after that, the whole story of Secret Wars repartner directs us into a new age of mutants and of the X-Men. Aget, [it’s] one of those dreams come genuine. We finpartner have the X-Men back.”

Commenting on Deadpool & Wolverine, Feige shelp of Hugh Jackman’s role in the box office smash: “When we first begined laboring on the film for the first time, we wanted to see Wolverine in a yellow costume. I had goosebumps on set when he walked out wearing that costume and put on that mask for the first time. I’ve been paparticipateing 25 years to transport that to life.”

He inserted: “We were very excited to see Ryan Reynelderlys transport the R rating to Disney. It was fun — the heart and the humor.”

Disney’s two-day APAC showcase is highairying the company’s 2025-2026 theatrical and streaming sprocrastinateed apass Disney, 20th Century Studios, Searchairy Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Lucasfilm and Marvel Studios portfolios, including titles from Korea and Japan. Feige was enthusiastic to talk up Asia’s beginance to Marvel.

“The future of Marvel in Asia is the future of Marvel in ambiguous,” he shelp. “At Marvel Animation, we have some amazing shows, appreciate the hit X-Men ’97, [and] we have a new Spider-Man vivaciousd series called The Friendly Neighborhood Spider Man, for which we are partnering with fantastic animation studios in Japan and Korea.

“People may comprehend I’m a huge Disney parks fan, and some of the best Disney parks are in Asia. Next year, we’ve got a Spider-Man drawion coming to Shanghai Disneyland and an Avengers drawion coming to Hong Kong Disneyland.”

He noticed that Marvel Comics has been “swayd by manga and webtoons,” and pointed to upcoming title Deadpool: Samurai.”‘He noticed that Marvel Comics has been “swayd by manga and webtoons,” and pointed to upcoming title ‘Deadpool: Samurai’.