
Deadpool co-creator Rob Liefeld had something to say about Marvel Studios‘ Kevin Feige after seeing the box office results of Captain America: Brave New World.
The post-Avengers: Endgame era at the box office has been challenging for Marvel, with only a few exceptions such as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Deadpool & Wolverine.
Box office results for the second weekend of Captain America: Brave New World showed a 68% drop week-to-week, positioning it as the third-most significant drop in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The two films that fared worse were The Marvels, with a 78% dropoff, and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania at 68%.
Following the report of Brave New World’s results, Liefeld took to X (formerly Twitter) and posted: “Get Feige off the mound. He’s spent.”
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Liefeld quoted all the Marvel films that have dropped more than 60% at the box office in its second weekend, saying in another X post that the “MCU is on an extended downside.”
“This is beyond a trend, it’s become the norm,” Liefeld said. “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.”
In another X post he added, “8 movies crash over the last 3 years. Don’t we want better movies? You get the curiosity crowd then plunge.”
Earlier this year, Liefeld opened up about feeling snubbed by Marvel at the Deadpool & Wolverine premiere in 2024.
Liefeld said on the Robservations podcast that he was ignored by Feige on the red carpet and found out his family was not invited to the afterparty. The comic book creator also said that he posed for pictures on the red carpet with Deadpool & Wolverine creatives but found out they were ultimately deleted and were only taken to appease him.
Liefeld sucks. Fabian Nicieza created the Deadpool we all know and love.
He should be the LAST person to talk about quality when he spent his entire career recycling/kit bashing other people’s concepts, like a five year old kid gluing Legos to toy cars and calling it original. His entire career has been based on luck. Good for him. But when you’ve never had but one talent ripping people off it’s time to sit in the back seat and let the real adults doing the driving.
talking about being spent…Rob hasn’t had a hit comic series in over 30 years!!!!
stop throwing stones little fella
Amen. He’s talked bs ever since the first deadpool movie. He talked down about it until it was released and became a smash hit. Then he wanted to bounce on Reynolds lap pole.
He’s been irrelevant for years and to the best of my knowledge. He has not been apart of any of the great deadpool comic stories.
He’s simply a guy who can’t draw feet or captian america.
Deadpool is a novelty movie. In 100 days BnW be on Disney+ and I can watch it in my living room. It was a great movie, The only thing that needs to change are these out dated metrics. I would check the audience RT score if you want to find “failed” movies
This movie was atrocious. It’s too bad because he’d be a great Capt America
Great movie? Are you Kevin Feige?
Deadpool and Wolverine did not live up to the first two Deadpool movies or any of the X-Men Wolverine movies. It felt like a cheap convoluted Disney/Marvel movie. I’m guessing he wasn’t happy with the final product of his movie and what Disney forced him to do with it. It was awful. Disney/Marvel has been awful for several years.
What?! Deadpool and Wolverine was great! Mostly due to the fact Disney had very minimal influence over it. Otherwise yes the few I’ve seen after infinity wars have been meh..