Link: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kevin-feige-ryan-coogler-chadwick-boseman-1236530436/

An interesting series of more candid than usual reflections from three USC film school graduates who are currently at the peak of their careers: Kevin Feige, Shawn Levy and Ryan Coogler.

Feige has personally made a large ‘transformational’ endowment to the program that will in future bear his name.

From Feige:

Marvel has always had a back and forth with fans, going back to the days of the letters pages at the back of its comics, “but it can be wielded with such force now that you have to be beware,” Feige noted, referring to the power, sometimes dark, of fandom on the internet.

The volume of what is being said online, if you focus too closely on it, “will crush you,” he said, adding, “There are hours and hours of theories on YouTube, hours and hours on TikTok, hours on subreddits … You can read everything on everything and get a different point of view on it. You can go crazy. So, we don’t do that.”

“We will be back in there, that was always my expectation,” Feige said. “So the need to set a dinner or a lunch to say hi, I just never do. Because we’re busy and because we’re going to have a next time. And that hit me like a ton of bricks when I realized that there wasn’t going to be a next time.”

Good advice for me...

And for me.

One always thinks there will be time. Regrettably, we have to learn the lesson through experience, some of us more than once.