Feige is currently spearheading Marvel Studios' Phase 4, which includes the push to Disney+ for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
"When we did the first Avengers, Kevin Feige told me, 'Listen, I might not be here tomorrow'," he said."And he's like, 'Ike does not believe that anyone will go to a female-starring superhero movie. So if I am still here tomorrow, you will know that I won that battle.'"
Ike Perlmutter is the former CEO and current chairman of Marvel Entertainment. Perlmutter's influence on the company, particularly on the film side has been greatly reduced in recent years as Feige continues to gain influence. In the early days of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Perlmutter would advise against female-led superhero films.
CEO of Disney, Bob Iger explained the roadblocks presented on the journey to diversity and representation at Marvel in the book 'The Ride of a Lifetime'. According to"We had a chance to make a great movie and to showcase an underrepresented segment of America, and those goals were not mutually exclusive," Iger wrote.
"Kevin wanted black superheroes, women superheroes, LGBT superheroes," Ruffalo added."He changed the whole Marvel universe. We now have a gay superhero on the way, we have black superheroes, we have female superheroes – Scarlett Johansson has her movie coming out, we have
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