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Kevin Feige Discusses Marvel Reshoots and Why They Aren't a Big Deal


Reshoots have been a controversial process in recent years, even though they're a common practice in Hollywood. This is mostly due to the handling of Justice League, which seems to have been broken and put back together with duct tape. Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige was recently asked about the nature of reshoots and he feels that they shouldn't be a huge deal.

Speaking with the Los Angeles Daily News, Feige discussed film testing and how this is needed to see what fans like and dislike about a movie. He even mentions how these tests helped make Ant-Man and The Wasp a better movie since initial screenings left some people disgruntled.

We test; there are earlier versions of Ant-Man and theWaspthatyou would not be saying nice things about, as is true for all of our films. You cut together what you have and watch it, you see what you have and how you want to adapt it, you go and shoot additional materials (which we do on all of our movies) and we begin to shape it. I don't think people realize what a collaborative, living, sort of piece of art a film is. Four weeks ago, this movie was different.

It's clear that reshoots are done to make films better or to at least fix things that fans complained about. Not all of them break the movie and piece them together again, so fans should try to be a bit less paranoid about them. Zack Snyder's version of Justice League seems to be the biggest victim of reshoots and we can only hope something like that doesn't happen to any other movie.

Marvel will likely do reshoots for Captain Marvel, which recently wrapped up production. Expect them to do this for Avengers 4 and other Marvel movies as well.

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