Rob Liefeld slams Kevin Feige
Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld thinks Kevin Feige’s days with Marvel are over.
“Get Feige off the mound. He’s spent,” Liefeld posted, evaluating Marvel’s present struggles to a pitcher who’s misplaced his recreation.
He didn’t cease there.
In one other put up, Liefeld identified that Courageous New World is simply the most recent in a rising pattern of Marvel movies which have seen large second-weekend drops, together with The Marvels (which holds the file with a 78% plunge) and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (which additionally fell 68%).
“This is beyond a trend, it’s become the norm,” he wrote. “If this was sports, Feige would be removed. Marvel brand is like Dodgers, Lakers, Yankees, Celtics, coaches that win championships are removed a year later when the results are disappointing.”
Liefeld, by no means one to mince phrases, doubled down in one more put up, saying, “8 movies crash over the last 3 years. Don’t we want better movies? You get the curiosity crowd then plunge.”
This isn’t the primary time Liefeld has aired his frustrations with Marvel.
Earlier this yr, he shared that he felt snubbed on the Deadpool & Wolverine premiere in 2024, revealing on his Robservations podcast that he was ignored by Feige on the pink carpet.
He additionally claimed that whereas he posed for photographs with the movie’s inventive staff, the photographs have been finally deleted and have been solely taken to “appease” him.
Whether or not or not Feige takes Liefeld’s criticism to coronary heart stays to be seen, however one factor’s for positive—Marvel’s present field workplace numbers are elevating eyebrows, and Liefeld isn’t afraid to name it out.