Marvel's Kevin Feige Confirms Meeting With Selma Director
It looks like we’ll soon have an answer to whether or not Marvel will hire a female director to helm one of their high-profile releases. Having announced one new director joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the appointment of Jon Watts to helm the next standalone Spider-Man movie, could Selma director Ava DuVernay be next?
The director was linked with directing Marvel’s Black Panther movie earlier this year but now, Marvel’s Kevin Feige, confirmed that he has met with DuVernay to discuss a number of projects.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Feige said: “We’ve met with a number of people for a number of movies. She has been one of them… We need to find the best director for any given movie, and that’s really where we always start. If diversity is part of that, it’s great. It’s important. You will start to see things across the industry as a whole change as more filmmakers come up through the ranks and become part of making movies like this".
So it looks like it’ll be sooner rather than later that a woman will direct one of their movies.
As well as DuVernay, Angelina Jolie has been linked with directing Captain Marvel for the studio. That said, that's still very much at the rumour stage.
Chadwick Boseman will debut his take on Black Panther in next year's Captain America: Civil War. The Black Panther movie is set to follow on July 6th 2018, with Mark Bailey currently penning the script.