#Kevin Smith Shares Details On His Phone Call With Marvel’s Kevin Feige

Smith is friends with “Last Night in Soho” director Edgar Wright, and he touched on Wright’s experience with “Ant-Man.” He’d developed the movie for years, but ultimately parted ways with Marvel over creative differences, leaving Peyton Miller to take over as director.

To hear Smith tell it, it doesn’t sound like Wright’s departure was particularly acrimonious. It just sounds like his auteurist vision didn’t happen to align with what Marvel wanted. As for Smith, he doesn’t see Feige or Marvel knocking on his door anytime soon to direct one of their movies:

“I think everyone knows what my relationship with the Marvel movies is … particularly at Marvel. They’re like, ‘He’s a fan, and he will remain a fan, as far as we’re concerned.’ That’s for the best, man. I don’t have that kind of vision to pull that stuff off. Look, I’ll be honest with you. This is the call that I really want, Kevin Feige calling up and being like, ‘Will you be in one of these movies?’ That would be far more valuable to me than making one of those movies.”

Smith did make an appearance in one Marvel flick: the 2003 Ben Affleck-led “Daredevil.” He also penned the “Guardian Devil” comics storyline, but that was before Marvel Studios came along and kickstarted Hollywood’s shared-universe craze.

We’re now 13 years deep into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the movie rights to “Daredevil” have fallen back into Marvel’s hands. So you never know: maybe Smith will pop up in a future revenge cameo whenever Marvel decides to bring Daredevil back to the screen.