By admin There has always been a rumor that Marvel will green light a project and start filming without a finish script. Recently, James Gunn made a comment about his DC Studios takeover, saying that he’d never allow one of the projects in the DCU to start filming without a finished script done. But Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige made it clear that there has not been a movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that they started without having a finished script. But he did say that Marvel did use a “plussing” method with their projects while filming.
During a roundtable discussion for Fantastic Four: First Steps, Feige spoke with journalists from outlets like Variety about the franchise as a whole and clarified that Marvel has always filmed their new project with a completed script to start with. “We’ve never started a movie without a full script and I have never been satisfied with a script that we’ve had,” he said. “I’ve never been satisfied with a movie we’ve released.” While Feige was never “satisified” with the films they’ve finished, he did defend the “plussing” that Marvel does to their films.
“Plussing” is the act of making improvements during a project as they are making it. So the “changes” or the “incomplete” script rumors do come from this process of changing things, which Feige said Walt Disney himself did. “Actors, both the ones that are playing these characters for the first or second time and the characters playing them for the 10th or 12th time, are the best in the world at it and know these characters so well,” Feige said. “If they have an idea, you want to listen to it and you want to adjust to it and you want to improve it. I wouldn’t want to change that.”
Kevin Feige Went on to Defend the Process of “Plussing” Further
Feige went on to talk about how there are some filmmakers who refuse to change a script once the film is in production. “I know there are filmmakers — James in my experience isn’t one of them; maybe he is now — who say, ‘If you want to be a part of my movie, you just say the words and you stay here the entire schedule in case we need you.’ We have so many actors, we can’t do that. We don’t do that. We give people a window, we keep to that window.”
You can see what the “plussing” did for Fantastic Four: First Steps when it hits theaters this week.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
- Release Date
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July 25, 2025
- Runtime
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115 minutes
- Director
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Matt Shakman
- Writers
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Jeff Kaplan, Josh Friedman, Ian Springer, Eric Pearson
source: Variety