Kevin Feige Responds to Scorsese: "We Killed Half Our Characters at the End of a Movie"

Kevin Feige has broken his silence on Martin Scorsese‘s superhero movie comments. A week after The Irishman director published a New York Times essay that in a better world would have put a stop to the discourse, Feige is responding to Scorsese’s arguments that Marvel movies aren’t “cinema.”

Feige is a consummate strategist, which means he would naturally wait until the discourse over Marvel movies and “cinema” will have all but died down before putting in his two cents. In an interview with Scott Feinberg on The Hollywood Reporter’s podcast Awards Chatter, Feige finally weighed in on Scorsese’s criticism of superhero movies as being risk-averse pieces of entertainment that don’t fit his definition of “cinema.” Feige took issue with Scorsese’s comments on Marvel movies’ lack of risk, pointing to the high body count in Avengers: Infinity War:

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