Deadpool & Wolverine Interview: EP Wendy Jacobson on ‘Unicorn’ MCU Movie

comingsoon.net:

ComingSoon’s Jonathan Sim recently spoke with, executive producer of the upcoming Marvel Studios film. They talked about the work of an executive producer, the on-set vibe of the upcoming sequel, and her work in the MCU, starting with She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.

“Wolverine is recovering from his injuries when he crosses paths with the loudmouth Deadpool,” reads the summary. “They team up to defeat a common enemy.” The film arrives in theaters on July 26, 2024.

That is correct, yes.

That’s a really good question. You know, someone had called me, a friend of mine and said Marvel was looking for producers for streaming series. And I had never done a TV show before. I had never done anything streaming, but I was the biggest fan of Marvel. So, of course, I was gonna take that call and, you know, started sitting down with all of these people. And it’s really interesting because I couldn’t kind of meet anyone. I’m like, let me have a coffee with someone from Marvel. It was like Fort Knox trying to figure out what was there. But as soon as I started interviewing every person that I met with, you know, besides being in total reverence of everything they had done and being a little intimidated and freaked out, they were all just so cool and chill.

And so it made me really wanna work there. And then my first day that I got the job, I was thrilled, and I went into [Kevin Feige‘s] office, and he said, “Everyone works at one project at a time here, and you are gonna work on She-Hulk,” which I really didn’t know much about at the time. And then I started reading the comics and was just blown away. I thought it was so cool. And it was this kind of audacious woman who broke the fourth wall and yelled at her writers when she wasn’t happy with the storyline, you know, and we primarily focused on the Dan Slott run as the basis for our show.

And Jessica Gau had such an incredible take on the material, and it was something that was really easy for me to connect with because it was about