![]() So it’s like, “Here are the action figures. And they wanted to do a big tonal shift and they wanted to do a Quantum Realm adventure. It’s like they had a few ideas like, you know, Kang the Conqueror was on the table. Loveness: I came in when they were kind of in a little bit of development. So the Marvel process – when you came on board did they say, “We want you to do X,Y and Z” or did you have a blank piece of paper to propose what to do? I think now it’s been decided because if we saw some bare MODOK ass on screen, I think marvel movies are cinema. But in this case I will weigh in and say that guys who hate it are wrong! He’s delightful! And they can throw me out of Marvel if they want but MODOK lives in cinema now and I think now Scorsese’s wrong. It’s like arguing about politics or sports or something. Loveness: You’re kind of used to it as a comic book fan. There’s gotta be some part of you that enjoys watching the fans online hate on MODOK and then love him and then battle it out. Those are the two highlights that that I hold onto. I love that I got to do that version of him and to make him that stupid and like that tragic and pathetic and like to give them a little bit of a redemptive arc and to die in such a dark funny way. I will bleed out for MODOK! (see photos on Jeff’s Twitter!) And the dumb comedy guy in me, man, I cannot believe that I got to do MODOK in that way! I got to do a comedic, fun, stupid version of MODOK and even if it divides people or whatever, I will go to the mat for MODOK. I felt such a trust and such an excitement and I was never worried about Jonathan and I’m like, “He can pull off those lines and like he makes them sound so cool.” And as a writer, you know, you’re always vulnerable and then you feel insecure about your writing or you don’t know if it’s gonna pay off or not. I’m not even kidding, like every day, every scene with that guy was a thrill to watch. He actually fully embodied the essence of that comic book character which is pretty tough to translate, you know? And he’s a full-on super villain and to still give him gravitas and vulnerability and humanity. On the dramatic front, just actually seeing Jonathan Majors embody Kang the Conqueror and not doing like a half ass-job, not do a meta-or a undercutting version. Jeff Loveness: I think for me there’s like two fronts. What in the whole process did you consider the High Point? Where did you take a step back and say, “Wow! I can’t believe this is happening!” Now that the movie’s come out, you’ve done the publicity and everything, I know what a massive Marvel fan you are. We caught up with Jeff Loveness to discuss his first feature film for Marvel Studios. And as was recently revealed, he’s currently writing Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. Now he leads us into the Quantum Realm as writer of Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania. That eventually led to him meeting the Marvel Bullpen and a job writing comics starring Groot, Spider-Man, Venom, the Avengers, and more. Later, he wrote and directed the viral fan film Wes Anderson’s Spider-Man, which caught the eye of Jimmy Kimmel Live! There, he wrote a new Star Wars trilogy starring Harrison Ford (watch here, here and here!). As a kid, his brother and friends would quiz each other on Marvel trivia on the way to school. Jeff Loveness was born to write for Marvel. ![]()
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