DC Needs Its Own Kevin Feige, But Who Could fit The Role?
With Marvel pumping out smash hit after smash hit, it seems like a no-brainer to see that what the difference between the Warner’s brain trust at the Marvel one is having a solid person — a Kevin Feige — at the helm guiding the direction of the franchise. As president of Marvel Studios, Feige serves this role. He steers and directs the MCU, but not in such a heavy-handed way the directors don’t want to hop aboard and make their mark in an already very crowded pool.
But that begs the question — with DC’s helmsmen seemingly jumping ship after only a movie or three, who would remain long enough to help build a stable of talent to oversee a broader-picture outline to lay out the franchise for years to come? Who at DC could be their Kevin Feige?
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Warner’s has gone through lots of dance partners with their big superhero franchise lately, trying to play catch-up with the runaway success of the MCU’s vast, interconnected web of stories and crossovers and Easter eggs, the comics arm of Disney having found a way to replicate what comics do best on the big screen itself. Warner’s first started out with Zack Snyder at the helm, thinking the man who could translate Moore and Miller to pretty good acclaim might be right for taking a whack at their own stable of properties.
Snyder, however, saw characters like Superman a little bit differently than everyone else did. He wanted to go grim and gritty with every aspect of the often whizz-bang, glossy DCU. His first move was to turn gee-shucks farmboy-turned-reporter Clark Kent into a neck-breaking rampage alien laying waste to Metropolis in his quest to stop General Zod — a take that sparked the ire of many a
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