{"id":79161,"date":"2025-07-20T23:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T23:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/79161\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T23:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T23:08:09","slug":"kevin-feige-wont-say-jonathan-majors-name-planned-on-ditching-kang-before-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/79161\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Feige won’t say Jonathan Majors’ name, planned on ditching Kang before controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kang Dynasty was dead before it began, according to Kevin Feige. In a wide-ranging conversation with the press, per The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, Feige came clean about Marvel\u2019s recent struggles. Underperforming films? The result of too much homework. Blade stalling out? Ryan Coogler needed costumes<\/a>.\u00a0James Gunn\u2019s comments on only making movies with finished scripts? Feige is \u201cnever satisfied\u201d with his films and spends as much time as possible adding in extra shit, which he calls \u201cplus-ing.\u201d But Feige saved the most interesting comments for a man that he refers to as \u201cThe Actor.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Actor in question is Jonathan Majors, who starred as Kang in Loki and Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania. In the interview, Feige won\u2019t say his name, referring to Majors only as \u201cthe actor\u201d or \u201cKang actor.\u201d However, at one point, Majors was to become Marvel\u2019s new Thanos. That was until police arrested Majors for domestic violence<\/a> about a month after Ant-Man\u2019s release. The Actor has since been convicted and staged an unsuccessful comeback, but Marvel was already abandoning The Kang Dynasty, so don\u2019t even worry about it. Realizing \u201cKang wasn\u2019t big enough, wasn\u2019t Thanos,\u201d Feige claims he was reversing course before the arrest. The Fox acquisition provided him with an easy exit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had started even before what had happened to the actor happened, we had started to realize that Kang wasn\u2019t big enough, wasn\u2019t Thanos, and that there was only one character that could be that, because he was that in the comics for decades and decades,\u201d Feige said. \u201cBecause of the Fox acquisition, we finally had it, and it was Doctor Doom. So we had started talking about Doctor Doom even before we officially pivoted from Kang. And in fact, I had started talking with Robert [Downey Jr.] about this audacious idea before Ant-Man 3 even came out. It was a long plan that we had to take one of our greatest characters and utilize one of our greatest actors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thankfully, Downey Jr. found it in his heart to accept a reported $80 million<\/a> to return to the series. The Avengers: The Kang Dynasty became Avengers: Doomsday, and The Actor joins Terrence Howard in the MCU memory hole.<\/p>\n