Kevin Feige Gets Emotional Revisiting X-Men Roots While Making AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY
As hype builds for Avengers: Doomsday, Kevin Feige has shared a personal detail that hits a little deeper than multiversal chaos and superhero team-ups.
The film doesn’t just bring together iconic characters, it reconnects Feige with the place where his journey in Marvel movies first began.
Long before the MCU became the cinematic giant it is today, Feige was getting his start as an associate producer on 2000’s X-Men. Now, decades later, he’s standing on some of those same sets again while crafting one of Marvel’s biggest crossover events. That experience clearly left an impression.
"I think for fans the notion of having the Avengers and X-Men together for the first time within our cinematic universe is incredibly exciting," Feige told Fandango. "It's been something that has been a long time coming.
“For me personally, my career started in 1998 on that first X-Men film. No spoilers, but there might be some sets that you recognize from those original films, and being on those sets 26 years later with my now 12-year-old son was pretty emotional."
That kind of history adds a layer of authenticity to Doomsday that goes beyond spectacle. It’s a reunion with the DNA that helped build modern superhero cinema.
Feige also touched on how working with legacy characters again has sparked a creative energy that fans are going to feel on screen. After already dipping into that nostalgia with Deadpool and Wolverine, the excitement has only grown stronger.
"I had a taste of it on Deadpool and Wolverine and getting to work with Hugh [Jackman] again, and putting him in a comic-accurate costume, that's another thing that is so exciting, bringing them into our world, is getting to frankly do justice to that comic style," he continued.
"And seeing how excited Hugh was on Deadpool and Wolverine, how excited all of the actors, and in particular Jimmy Marsden as Cyclops, being in a comic-accurate costume, and the way these guys [the Russo brothers] direct the action with his powers is a sight to behold."
The returning lineup for Doomsday is stacked with familiar faces. Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James Marsden, Kelsey Grammer, and Rebecca Romijn are all back in the mix, stepping into roles that helped define the early days of Marvel on the big screen.
We’ve only seen quick glimpses so far in the teaser, but a full trailer was screened privately at CinemaCon. There’s no word on when it will be released online.
Everything about Avengers: Doomsday feels like a celebration of where Marvel started and how far it’s come. For Feige, it’s clearly more than just another project. It’s a return to the beginning, now viewed through the lens of everything he’s helped build since.
Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on December 18.