Kevin Feige Says Marvel's Disney+ Shows Will Be "The First Time" TV Shows Have Tied Into The MCU
Sorry, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Daredevil! In an interview over the weekend, Marvel Chief Creative Officer Kevin Feige pretty much threw Marvel Television's small screen offerings under the bus...
Next year, the small screen expansion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe begins when The Falcon and The Winter Soldier arrives on Disney+. A huge number of big budget TV shows - all under the watchful eye of Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige - will follow, and it seems that these will actually count!
What do we mean by that? Well, based on comments from Feige at CCXP, the likes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Defenders, and Cloak & Dagger haven't really been tied into the wider MCU.
"Disney+ is going to give us this opportunity to tell even deeper stories with characters you already know and love…in a new type of cinematic way that we haven’t done before," Feige explains. "We’ve already started shooting two of them and they’re very, very special."
"And it all, for the first time, will interlink. So, the MCU will be on your TV screen at home on Disney+ and interconnect with the movies and go back and forth. It’s exciting to expand the MCU into even bigger and better heights."
He clearly doesn't feel the shows we've seen up to this point really count, and that's hardly a surprise when he wasn't involved from a creative standpoint and even admitted to not having seen Daredevil when it first aired back in 2015. As Marvel Television is now folded into Marvel Studios, the man who spearheaded those shows, Jeph Loeb, will soon be looking for a job.
