The horrible television movie you had no idea that Marvel Chief Kevin Feige produced

Kevin Feige is one of those nerds whose dream came true. He graduated from the University of Southern California in 1995 and immediately got a concert as assistant to Lauren Shuler Donner, the executive producer of Hollywood films as “Volcano” and “You Got Mail”. Obviously, Feige did not stop talking about his obsession with Marvel Comics, and Donner got him a job working on Bryan Singer 2000 “X-Men” as a result. Feige has an associated producer loan in that film, and became great success. Not only that, but it was proof that Marvel superheroes were viable for the adaptation of the screen, and a door began to open, both for gender and for Feige.

At that time, Avi Arad was the head of the Marvel Film Division, and was so impressed with Feige’s work in “X-Men” that he was hired instantly to be the second in command of Arad. Feige began to serve as an executive producer in all the most recent Marvel projects, including films such as “Daredevil”, “Hulk”, “The Punisher” and “Spider-Man 2.” Sam Raimi “These films were mostly all the successes, even if the fans gave them (collectively) a mixed reaction.” Spider-Man 2 “was deeply loved.” Hulk “and” Daredevil “were ridiculed. Since Marvel films would dominate both the film market and each film conversation for a decade, you can see in the mid-2000 As Feige’s growth period, the moment he was building the industry giant in which he would eventually become.

However, during this period of growth, there was a legitimate marvel bomb that few discuss in superhero movies. According to the reports, Brett Leonard’s 2005 film “Man-Thing”, a horror movie about an imposing murder creature of the swamp, was so bad that it was taken from theaters and released as an original science fiction film (also known as Syfy).

Lonely Geek’s website He pointed out that “Man-Thing” originally intended to be a theatrical release in Halloween, 2004, but was transferred to a direct project to video on the company’s schedule the following quarter. There was intended for a link music video for “Man-Thing” (played by the Azur band), as well as a prequel comic published by Marvel. It was going to be everything. However, at the last minute, Arad took the movie of the theatrical launch, not wanting to spend the announcement money on a movie that certainly went to Tank. Certainly? It seems that the members of the audience really left the evidence. That was enough for Arad Caute.

It may have been a good thing, since “Man-Thing” was very poorly reviewed, obtaining an approval index of 14% in Rotten Tomatoes, based on seven reviews. No one is a fan. The direction is fine (director Leonard had made skilled and technology -based Thrillers like “The Lawn Lower Man” and “Virtuosity”), but the rhythm is slow, the characters are boring and the dialogue is terrible. The main character is the Sheriff Kyle Williams (Matthew Le Nevez), who is investigating corporate embezzlement in Seminole County, surrounded by Florida swamps. His investigations reveal a seminole creature, the titular man, an imposing mound of vines and moss in the form of a human.

The man of man was played by the Australian fighter of seven feet Conan Stevens, dressed in a giant suit, but improved with CGI. The monster killed the moods. If you were experiencing fear, and the thing of man touched you, it would burn. It will later be revealed that the man was once a seminole shaman that resurrected and became a swamp monster by local magic. The man has bright and wild red eyes. Leonard shoots a man in the shadows, leaving him a monster instead of a superhero.

The Man-Thing character was invented in 1971, launched about a year and a half before the very similar DC swamp thing. However, one did not scam the other, so anyone can say. One of the man’s creators, Gerry Conway, was once roommates with the Swamp Thing co -creator, Len Wein, and it is likely that they simply bring similar ideas of “swamp creature” to the respective companies where they worked.

The 2005 film was only sought by Marvel Obsessives, which was a much smaller crowd in 2005 than would be for the end of the decade. Feige would serve as an executive producer in modest successes (some of them did not like) as “Fantastic Four”, “Spider-Man 3” and “X-Men: The Last Stand”. At the end of the 2000s, it seemed that the superheroes were not going to last much more. The star characters from Marvel, the X-Men, Spider-Man and the Fantastic four, had already received the treatment of stars, and nobody wanted to see characters from the C list such as Punisher or Iron Man.

Yes, in 2008, Jon Favreau’s “Iron Man” was considered a risk, as the character had, at that time, very little Geek cultural influence. “Iron Man,” however, proved to be a success against wind and tide. His success was promoted to Feige to the head of Marvel Studios. Disney bought the company, left it in charge, and Feige was finally able to implement its plan for a film universe. The rest is history.

Feige, however, could have felt the need to redeem the man’s character and took him out of the ashes of the science fiction channel almost 20 years later. In 2022, Feige supervised the production of “Werewolf by Night” by Michael Giacchino, a MCU TV project starring Gael García Bernal as the titular werewolf. The story followed Bernal to a rich monstrous-cazador mansion, where he was secretly sought to locate and rescue man from a maze in the property. “Werewolf By Night” described the man as friendly and gentle. Finally, the film Rotten 2005 could be ignored.