SHE-HULK Writer Reveals George Clooney and Jon Hamm Were Considered for the Season Finale

That season finale of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law sure was something. I’ve seen a lot of mixed reactions from fans on it. As for me, I’m conflicted… I loved it and I hated it. Anyway, during a recent interview with Marvel head writer Jessica Gao discussed the pitching and scripting phase of the project saying:

“I think I probably wrote like, 20 versions of a finale that went all over the place and I started feeling like, ‘Well, this is a Marvel show, I better give them the classic Marvel ending.’ Big villain fight, big finale. But it never felt right because I was trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.”

It was Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige that set Gao on the course of the mind-bending fourth wall break that involved She-Hulk crashing out of her own show and confronting She-Hulk’s writers in the “real world,” which ultimately led her to K.E.V.I.N. When discussing Feige’s advice she said:

Feige really opened my mind to the idea that it's OK to not do that because I was trying to do what I thought was the Marvel expectation of what the show had to be. He was like, ‘Why? No one's telling you to do that, you don't have to do that, you can do something completely different, we should be doing something completely different because this show is so different from anything that Marvel has done.’ It was getting that permission from him that really made me think, ‘Oh.’ It just changed everything.”

After they decided to move forward with Jen going to the Marvel Studios itself and meet K.E.V.I.N., the creative team started playing around with the idea of actually getting an actor to play a human version of K.E.V.I.N., and they even briefly considered “George Clooney or Jon Hamm, a very handsome debonair man in a tuxedo. K.E.V.I.N. is essentially this James Bond-type man in a tux.”

In the end, they ended up going with the whole robotic A.I. machine for K.E.V.I.N. because just made more sense for the absurdity of the finale. She added:

“I wrote in the script that when she sees this big AI machine, it's wearing a little black baseball hat, a classic Kevin Feige-style black baseball hat. When the [visual development team] was showing us different possible sketches of K.E.V.I.N., they were all wearing little hats. No matter what type of robot or machine it was, it was wearing a little black baseball hat on top. [Human] Kevin said, ‘Well, that doesn't make a lick of sense, why would a robot wear a hat?’ I said, ‘That's the part that doesn't make sense to you, Kevin, that is the line of logic that you won't cross, we have you represented as an AI brain that is controlling all of the Marvel Cinematic Universes, but the thing that you can't get past is that it might have a hat on top of the machine?’ And he said, ‘Yeah.’”

The creative team eventually got its way with the K.E.V.I.N. robot wearing a hat. But, it came with a compromise: “The hat would actually be incorporated into the robot, instead of just sitting on top of the robot’s head.”

Things in that She-Hulk season finale certainly got wild! What did you think of it? What did you think of K.E.V.I.N.?