‘She-Hulk’ Head Writer Jessica Gao Credits Marvel’s Kevin Feige For Encouraging Her Toward Unconventional Ending
etcanada.comSPOILER ALERT: reading further will reveal a key plot point in the season finale of “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law”. The first season of Marvel’s “She-Hulk” concluded last week, containing the big revelation of yet another Hulk — this one a baby named Skaar.
The season finale also boasted a very unconventional ending for a project set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe; Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk (Tatiana Maslany) didn’t smash a foe, but instead smashed the fourth wall, using the Disney+ platform to wind up at Marvel Studios, where she discussed how the season should end with a robotic AI named K.E.V.I.N.
Anyone guessing that was a not-too-subtle nod to Marvel’s president and chief creative officer Kevin Feige can take a seat at the front of the class, and in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter the series’ head writer and executive producer, Jessica Gao, explains how Feige was instrumental in the eventual ending. READ MORE: ‘She-Hulk’ Star Tatiana Maslany On The Season 1 Finale, Daredevil & The New Hulk In The Family According to Gao, she wrote 20 different versions of the ending, all of which featured a more typical MCU-style conclusion, until a conversation with Feige convinced her to take a big swing. “Kevin was the one who said, ‘There’s no reason to do a big Marvel ending.
You’ve made a show that’s completely different than anything we’ve ever done before, so there’s absolutely no reason to treat it like a typical Marvel movie,’” Gao explained “That’s really what got wheels turning about going really out of the box and doing something that was more true to this show, as opposed to what’s true to a typical Marvel project.” There was one element about the ending, however, that led Gao and Feige to clash:
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