14 years before The Avengers, Marvel boss Tom Hanks taught him how to write email

Kevin Feige is undoubtedly the boss of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the related Marvel Universe owned by Disney that is home to the Avengers and soon to be the Fantastic Four or X-Men.

The man turned the one-off, unrelated films of the early 2000s into a one-off saga that has grossed $28.6 billion worldwide by 2023. But did you know that this comic-book-loving vision began when he was at the bottom of the movie theater ladder?

In 1998, Kevin Feige worked as an assistant producer on the film You’ve Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. If you’ve never seen this classic romantic comedy, it tells the story of how two booksellers with diametrically opposed methods and hatred for each other exchange romantic correspondence anonymously on the Internet.

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On set, it was Kevin Feige, who was familiar with the Internet, then still in its infancy for the general public, who taught the actors how to use this new tool. The equivalent of three days was spent coaching Hanks, Ryan and writer-director Nora Ephron via e-mail and taking over America Online (AOL). Meg Ryan had never touched a computer before filming.

Feige recalled years later the immense satisfaction he felt when Ryan, who had spent some time with him on a computer story, greeted him on the set: “I thought : “He remembers my name”.”

Feige would also work on Vulcan, still at the bottom of the scale, before Lauren Shuler Donner and Richard Donner became producers for the X-Men franchise in 2000. The sequel went down in history.