Marvel Studios Crisis: Everything You Need To Know About The Creative Shakeup

5. Who Made Up The Committee?

While not much is known about exactly how big the Committee was, several of its members are pretty well-known individuals within the Marvel community. As BMD summarizes, the group consisted of at least "Alan Fine, who came with [Ike] Perlmutter to Marvel through Toy Biz, Brian Michael Bendis, who is a prolific Marvel Comics writer, Dan Buckley, publisher of Marvel Comics and Joe Quesada, former editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics and the current Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Enterprises."

In a nutshell, these are influential guys, all of whom are armed with their own opinions and beliefs. From conjuring up creative notes about which characters should be used, how they should be used, what the future should be, how this ties to that to even determining which set-pieces should be used, it's easy to understand why someone like Edgar Wright walked when everyone is trying to put their own creative stamp on each project, stifling any "fresh blood" that any given director could well and truly bring to the table.

Though Feige has long been the one doing much of the heavy lifting in the public eye, he's been at the mercy of the Committee and the man they report to: Ike Perlmutter. So now you may be asking...