Warning: Thor: Ragnarok spoilers are discussed in this interview.

Thor: Ragnarok is now playing around the world. In the run-up to the Marvel film’s release, I got to sit down with Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige. He talked about the amazing Matt Damon cameo and how that came about, how much he plans on revealing when he’s sitting down to do press, if Thor’s missing eye will be permanent, if Loki (Tom Hiddleston) stole the Tesseract at the end of the movie, Marvel’s 10-year anniversary plans, if they have started discussing what Marvel properties will be on the upcoming Disney streaming app, when they will announce the 2020 movies and beyond, if they have plans for a Doctor Strange sequel, what’s surprised him about the Russo Brothers' Avengers: Infinity War, and a lot more.

As I’m sure you all know by now, the Thor sequel finds Thor (Chris Hemsworth) stripped of his hammer by Hela (Cate Blanchett), who escapes from her Asgardian prison and lays waste to the city. Banished to a foreign planet, Thor teams up with Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) and some new and old friends to take on Hela and protect the universe once and for all. The film also stars Karl Urban, Tessa Thompson, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Rachel House, Tadanobu Asano, Anthony Hopkins, Benedict Cumberbatch, Clancy Brown, and Ray Stevenson.

I absolutely loved this movie. It’s probably the funniest Marvel movie to date and it’s also a really fun ride that’s also loaded with some incredible action set pieces. I had a smile on my face beginning to end. I can’t recommend Waititi’s film enough.

Collider: It's funny because it's like an all-star grup of reporters sitting in hospitality waiting to talk with you. Everyone prepares for you like a big game day thing. When you're doing press like this, how much are you sort of cognizant of how much you want to say during an interview? Do you know what you're willing to reveal when you come into a press day like this?

KEVIN FEIGE: Sort of. I try to just keep it about whatever movie we're talking about, but I enjoy talking to journalists that are also fans that know so much about it. The only thing in more recent years, I've become cognizant of, is how people, understandably, take a ten minute interview and turn it into twenty different headlines spread out across five months.

I've never done that before. [laughs]

FEIGE: I'm like, when did I say that? I was like, that was like five months ago. I think it's fun. I usually just don't talk about anything I don't want to talk about, as you know.

I wanted to do some spoiler questions, which will run after release. First thing is, when you have someone who looks as good as Chris Hemsworth, how much are you guys at the studio thinking, "Is he really gonna stay blind? Like, in one eye, or is his eye going to magically gonna come back?" Cause the Avengers: Infinity War footage you showed did not have him missing an eye.

FEIGE: Some of the commercials for this film have him not missing an eye.

Showing footage where he has.

FEIGE: Exactly. So you don't know what's going on. Like we didn't want to spoil that in any of the footage we shot. No, we didn't think about that. We thought about what's fun for the character. What's cool for the character. Not “Are we sullying our good-looking actor?” He looks good in any way. In any way, shape and form.

I have found that women do seem to like him.

FEIGE: Yeah.

It's been a thing. So basically the losing an eye is a permanent thing going forward?

FEIGE: I didn't say that. I think Thor will, either way, it could happen.

Sure.

FEIGE: There'll be lots of evolutions for lots of characters over the course of the next two Avengers films.

I love the cameo with Matt Damon and Chris's brother, [Luke Hemsworth]. I think it's a fantastic

FEIGE: And Sam Neill.

Of course. I apologize for leaving Sam out. How did that come about? Whose idea? How tough was it to get Matt to do this?

FEIGE: There was an idea in the script phase. I don't remember if it was our writer, Eric Pearson's or if it was Taika [Waititi]’s or if it was our executive producer, Brad Winderbaum to bring the audience up to speed on the fact that everybody thinks Loki is dead. So that when it was revealed that he was Odin, it would make some semblance of sense to people who weren't following along from all the films. So there was this idea to do it in this funny sort of stage play which Loki/Odin had put on to celebrate himself. We then watched whatever was the season before last Game of Thrones. They did a similar thing where they had a stage play with some events from other episodes, not that we were like, “Ah crap.” But then it's different enough.

There was a fun idea of “Let's get Luke Hemsworth to play Thor,” Taika had worked with Sam Neill in Hunt for the Wilder People. He was willing to come in and do Odin. So who could be Loki? Who could be Loki? Who could be Loki? We didn't have any brilliant ideas. At one point, off handedly, Mr. Hemsworth goes, "Well what if I ask my friend Matt?" I said, "Matt who?" He said, "My friend, Matt Damon." “Okay. Sure. Sure Chris, ask your friend Matt Damon. Give me a break. He's not doing this.” “Oh he's gonna do it. He's flying down.” The next thing I know, Matt Damon is on set in a full Loki costume, full Loki wig. We have pictures that maybe we'll share some day of Tom Hiddleston in a full Loki outfit standing next to Matt Damon in full Loki outfit. It is very surreal and very amazing. What a testament to, I just met him for the first time, I wasn't there when he shot this. I just met him for the first time last night. What an awesome thing, for him to come down here for his friend. It was purely based on his friendship with Hemsworth that he came and did this.

The think I'm wondering is that when you put him in a movie like this, because he really hasn't signed on to the superhero genre. Is there an element of you're saying to yourself, “We can put him in this. It's a great bit, but we might be risking putting him in future Marvel movies?”

FEIGE: I think, as he said to me on the carpet last night, that look, there he is now a stock Asgardian player somewhere wandering the universe with, spoiler, Asgard gone. Who knows? It could be the adventures of a hard-working actor, Asgardian actor, in the future.

The mid-credit scene has a very large ship. There's been a lot of debate among fans as to whose ship it is. I'm of the opinion it's either Thanos’ friend or Thanos, that maybe they were attracted to the Tesseract that Loki has stolen.

FEIGE: Did Loki steal a Tesseract?

I'm just gonna go out on a ledge and say he has.

FEIGE: It's funny you say that because—

Or borrowed. Maybe borrowed is a better term.

FEIGE: You know that shot where he runs past the Tesseract, He used to run, look at it, and keep going. Nobody registered it. Then we had him run, look at it, cut away, everybody looks at it. It's just a little artistic editing tricks there. It could be any of the above or none of the above. You won't have to wait long to find out.

Because when I spoke to Taika, he said that he shot a few different things with The Grandmaster and one is where he's on the ship trying to survive. It was like a whole bunch of alts that could've been in the credit scenes.

FEIGE: Yes. Yeah, I love the one we ended up with, for the congratulating them on the revolution and saying it was a tie. It was clearly not a tie. The extra materials on this in-home release, there is an embarrassment of riches because Taika tried so many things and did so many things. The best of which are in the movie and some things that were great but just didn't work in the body of the film for some reason or the other. There's gonna be a lot of stuff on that disc. Not that stuff, which I just forgot about that. We gotta get that on there.

Without a doubt. Everything with Jeff Goldblum needs to be included.

FEIGE: There's a lot.

Yeah, everything. A lot of us are excited about the streaming app that Disney's putting out because I think there's a lot of opportunity for content that might be exclusive to the app. Have you guys already started thinking about, could we be releasing a Marvel film just on the streaming app?

FEIGE: I think it's early days. I've got meetings coming up in the coming weeks and months to have my initial conversations with them about that, but we haven't had any discussions yet.

I'm thinking that the only way the app is gonna work is if there is cool content.

FEIGE: I think that's the idea. I think Disney more than anyone, even without Marvel, has tons of cool stuff that is worth getting. How Marvel fits into that, I don't know yet.

You guys are coming up on the 10-year anniversary. I would imagine there might be cool things planned or what are you guys talking about, if anything?

FEIGE: Primarily the movies we're releasing next year are the celebration of the 10 years. Black Panther, obviously Infinity War, Ant-Man and Wasp. Those are the primary focus. In addition to that, the logo we revealed at D23, I have fond memories in 1987 of Star Wars, the first ten years, 77-87. They made a logo, they had t-shirts, they did small stuff. That was during the dark ages of Star Wars, where there hadn't been anything. Thankfully, we're not in the dark ages right now of the MCU, but I think there'll be just acknowledgements of the 10 years that have come before. There'll be some merchandise released and some re-releases in home video. Primarily it is all leading up to the three movies in particular, and obviously, Infinity War.

I know I'm basically out of time, but I want to ask some real quick things. Do you know what the 2020 movies are? Do you know when you'll be announcing them?

FEIGE: Yes.

Do you know when you'll be announcing them?

FEIGE: Yes. It won't be for a while. Our focus is on the next six movies. Finishing the first three phases, getting Untitled Avengers out into the world in May ‘19 before publicly focusing on anything else.

Is a Doctor Strange sequel in the cards?

FEIGE: Certainly, we would love to tell more about the Strange story.

My last thing for you. Obviously the Russo Brothers are phenomenal directors. I'm just curious what has surprised you about Infinity War that you weren't expecting. I've heard nothing but great things about the script. Is there anything that's really surprised you about the making of it or looking at the dailies or looking at a rough cut?

FEIGE: I don't know if anything surprises me necessarily, but it is overwhelming. I guess what has surprised me is how emotional it all is. Every day, every dailies, every time an actor that has never interacted with a character comes in contact with a character they've never interacted with, it's amazing. It's both funny, it's moving and just seeing all those people together in one spot is—you know me, I like to look ahead. I like to focus on, I'm already in Black Panther world, even though we’re talking about Ragnarok. We keep going. There is something very special about those movies that is happening everyday on set. It's not just the crew that feels it, or me that feels it, it's all the cast who are all mega-stars in their own right, yet feel privileged to be doing what they're doing every day. Joe and Anthony handling it, two movies at the same time, in an unprecedented fashion.

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