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• Kevin Feige got his start in the film industry as a production assistant on the romantic comedy "You've Got Mail."
• Feige's work on "You've Got Mail" helped him develop relationships in the industry and led to him becoming an associate producer on the X-Men movie.
• Feige's first-ever film credit was as a production assistant on the disaster drama "Volcano," which may have influenced his interest in creating large-scale entertainment in the future.

Kevin Feige is synonymous with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but before he took over the reins of the comic book house’s film and TV division, he was attached to an unlikely Christmas project. Ranking among the most successful and highest-earning producers in Hollywood, Feige serves as the president of Marvel Studios and is largely credited as the mastermind behind devising the multi-film franchise that redefined the comic-to-screen formula and began the now-colossal MCU movie roster. But his tryst with Marvel didn’t begin with the 2008 blockbuster Iron Man – instead, Feige’s first Marvel credit comes from X-Men some years before the MCU timeline came to exist, as he served as an associate producer on the 1999 movie, thanks to his detailed knowledge of the source material.
The studio executive was roped in by then-Marvel Entertainment chief creative officer Avi Arad to serve as executive producer on many more films based on Marvel characters, ranging from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy to polarizing titles like Jennifer Garner’s Elektra. Feige’s luck changed when he decided to produce movies about characters that were owned by Marvel at the time (unlike Spider-Man who belonged to Sony and X-Men who were under Fox). His efforts culminated in Iron Man, and the rest is history. But the prelude to this story – namely how Feige started as a producer – is decidedly less common knowledge.
Related Every Upcoming Marvel Movie: Full MCU Phase 5 & 6 List (& Beyond) Between Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment, here is every upcoming Marvel movie release date and what we know about the projects so far. Kevin Feige Worked On You’ve Got Mail Close With Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail, the pairing of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan led to some of the most memorable rom-coms of the 1990s. The latter is set in the early days of the internet, with a book chain magnate and an independent bookshop owner falling in love with an anonymous mail chain. The unconventional meet-cute love story interestingly had Kevin Feige serving as a production assistant to executive producer Lauren Shuler Donner. This partnership was crucial to the future of Marvel Entertainment, as it was on Donner’s recommendation that Feige got attached as an associate producer on X-Men (as reported by The New York Times).
Kevin Feige got his BFA from the University of Southern California, the same college as his idols George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis, and Ron Howard.
You’ve Got Mail endures as an evergreen Christmas movie too, with some of its most crucial emotional scenes taking place during the holidays. Written and directed by romantic comedy veteran Nora Ephron, the 1998 film wouldn’t have hinted at his future work in the superhero genre, but it was enough to prove that Feige could tackle projects featuring A-listers like Hanks and Ryan. Amusingly, the Marvel vampire thriller Blade was released in the same year (back when New Line Cinema owned Blade’s rights) – though Feige had no involvement in the Wesley Snipes-led take on the comic character.
The Only Other Non-Marvel Movie Feige Is Credited On You’ve Got Mail stars Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan first collaborated for the 1990 comedy Joe Versus the Volcano. While Feige was still a film student at the time, he got to work on another movie with the word “volcano” in the title. The 1997 disaster drama Volcano was Feige’s first-ever film credit. Just like what he would do a year later with You’ve Got Mail, Feige served as executive producer Lauren Shuler Donner’s production assistant. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche and Don Cheadle, Volcano revolved around the efforts to divert the lava flow of the titular disaster before it ravages the streets of Los Angeles.
Earning mixed reviews from critics, Volcano was a modest box-office hit but clashed with Dante’s Peak, a film with a similar premise released in the same year. It might not have been the best movie to start a film career with, but maybe, Volcano offered Feige ideas of large-scale entertainment, something that he would only perfect further with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Even Cheadle, who played an emergency organization’s assistant director in Volcano, enjoyed greater success with Feige later, ever since he replaced Terence Howard as War Machine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. If anything, Volcano endures as one of the only two non-Marvel movies that Feige worked on.