After feeling embarrassed on the premiere of Deadpool & Wolverine, creator Rob Liefeld says he’s reducing ties with Marvel.
Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld is able to tear Marvel a brand new one after feeling slighted finally 12 months’s Deadpool & Wolverine premiere. Liefeld, who’s been part of the Marvel household for greater than 30 years after creating Deadpool and the grizzled time-travelling son of Jean and Scott Summers, Cable, says the studio disrespected him in the course of the billion-dollar-making film’s victory lap and needs everybody to know what the corporate is like behind the glowing headlines and greenback indicators.
Talking on the Robservations podcast and in a follow-up interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Liefeld particulars the slights he claims to have skilled on the New York premiere for Deadpool & Wolverine. In keeping with Liefeld, it wasn’t till he was already on the premiere that Marvel determined to not invite him and his household to the afterparty. He additionally says that the Marvel Studios boss, Kevin Feige, didn’t acknowledge him regardless of being close to each other on the pink carpet.
“It was meant to embarrass, diminish, defeat me,” Liefeld stated about feeling snubbed. Including insult to harm, Liefeld claims he posed for skilled images with the Deadpool & Wolverine artistic workforce members, however his publicist stated Marvel deleted the photographs. Liefeld thinks Marvel snapped the images as a courtesy with no intention of utilizing them. Nevertheless, he famous footage of him and his household appeared in Disney’s Getty Photographs gallery. “At some point, you go, ‘I’ve received the message, and the message is clear,’” Liefeld stated on the Robservations podcast.
Liefeld penned a letter to Marvel final 12 months, asking if he would obtain a particular credit score for Deadpool & Wolverine. “Marvel’s treatment of creators has never been their strength,” he wrote. “Without the worlds, the characters and the concepts that we create — and in this specific case, the world of Deadpool — there are no films to shoot. No blockbusters to distribute. … I am not the easy button at Staples. I am the human imagination behind it all. Comic book creators cannot continue to be relegated as afterthoughts. This is easy to address. Unless I reach out to address it, it will never manifest.” Liefeld didn’t obtain a response, however his agent instructed him that the letter was not acquired nicely at Marvel.
He was extra concerned with the primary two Deadpool motion pictures, which have been made by twentieth Century Fox, however issues felt totally different on Deadpool & Wolverine. He visited the set in London however started to really feel like he wasn’t welcome. Liefeld didn’t clarify what occurred, solely saying, “Kevin Feige does not treat comic book creators well. That is my personal experience.” Liefeld introduced his retirement from Deadpool final 12 months.
