Marvel Studios Reportedly Dissolves Their Creative Committee During Move to Disney Studios Supervision



It only took about two days until more news hit regarding Marvel Studios moving from under the leadership of Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter to under the guidance of Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn. According to Birth.Movies.Death, the Marvel Studios creative committee has been dissolved and believe it or not... this is actually a good thing. Read on.

You're probably about to freakout because you think the end is nigh for Marvel Studios, but this report specifically states the creative committee is the alleged reason director Edgar Wright left ANT-MAN due to creative differences. It specifically was due to the creative committee's notes on changes needed to the ANT-MAN script prior to principle photography and production beginning in summer 2014.

So what is was the creative committee? B.M.D writes:

"What was the Creative Committee? It was a group of people who would give notes and thoughts on Marvel productions as they made their way from script to screen. Some of the guys on the committee included Alan Fine, who came with Perlmutter to Marvel through Toy Biz, Brian Michael Bendis, who is a prolific Marvel Comics writer, Dan Buckley, publisher of Marvel Comics and Joe Quesada, former editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics and the current Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Enterprises."

Apparently, the creative committee was more of a pain to work with due to their other responsibilities throughout Marvel. Because of this, their involvement process and notes were reportedly perceived as being more of a bad thing than a good thing.

"Over the years I've heard many stories of the Creative Committee giving notes that are pedestrian, motivated by 'save the cat' story logic and sometimes a drag on creativity. One Marvel creative talked to me about battles with the Creative Committee where they focused on details of nit-picky science that ignored the general tone of the script itself. The notes that drove Edgar Wright off Ant-Man came from the Creative Committee. What's more, the Creative Committee was often very tardy with their notes, making movie development a much slower process. All of the Committee members have other, very important jobs, so you understand why that would be the case, but it was a pain for filmmakers. And that's before taking into account the political divisions within Marvel that also created friction with the Creative Committee."

Now that the committee is dissolved and Perlmutter isn't involved in the film division this leaves studio head Kevin Feige, co-president Louis D'Esposito and producer Victoria Alonso in complete creative control (under the supervision of Horn) with their chosen writers and directors. This means some of those rumored stories of directors not being happy working with Marvel Studios could end.

It's a new day for Marvel Studios and the creative juices should be flowing more than ever before.