Marvel President Kevin Feige has a lot on his plate these days. In fact, WandaVision, Marvel Studios’ first foray into streaming TV series, just wrapped its first season on March 5.
The series set up the upcoming film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) and gave Marvel fans insight into exactly how Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) dealt with her grief over losing Vision (Paul Bettany) in Avengers: Endgame (2019). Spoiler alert: Not well.
Then, just yesterday, March 19, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier premiered on the Disney+ streaming platform. This high-octane MCU series follows Sam Wilson/Falcon (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) on a global adventure in a post-Blip — and post Captain America/Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) — world.
There is not much information currently known about the upcoming Star Wars movie, but fans already have all sorts of ideas, including casting Scarlett Johansson as a Sith, giving Darth Vader a prominent role, or setting the movie in the Old Republic era.
In addition to these rumors, reports have been flying that Feige was also set to be involved in the upcoming live-action Star Wars series, such as Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni’s hit, The Mandalorian.
Now, however, the Marvel Studios head has put these rumors to rest in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. Feige said:
“No. That’s all Kathy Kennedy,” Feige said, referring to the president of Lucasfilm. “I’m involved in as much as I stay up until midnight L.A. time to watch new episodes of The Mandalorian when they drop.”
Disney announced in September 2019 that Feige, a known Star Wars fan, will produce a new movie for the franchise with Kennedy. “With the close of the Skywalker Saga, Kathy is pursuing a new era in Star Wars storytelling, and knowing what a die-hard fan Kevin is, it made sense for these two extraordinary producers to work on a Star Wars film together,” Alan Horn, co-chairman and chief creative officer of the Walt Disney Studios, said at the time.
Feige and Favreau previously worked together on the Iron Man trilogy with actor Robert Downey Jr., which is where the online rumors of the Marvel head’s involvement in The Mandalorian saga may have stemmed from.
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