With Captain Marvel opening in theaters this weekend, I recently sat down with Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige for an exclusive interview. Unlike some interviews where ten minutes feels like an eternity, whatever time you get with Kevin Feige is not enough. No matter what you ask, there are a dozen other things you wished you had brought up as you leave the room. That’s because, as the head of Marvel Studios, Feige has the keys to everything and is one of the brilliant minds that has taken the comic book movie and turned it into the most popular genre on the planet. What Marvel Studios has done under Feige’s leadership should have been nothing short of impossible and I’m not sure enough people in the industry have given him the credit he deserves.

During the interview, Feige talked about the jaw-dropping de-aging technology used in Captain Marvel, if they’ve thought about having any future movies take place in the 60s or 70s, if they are still using James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy 3 script, the secrecy around the Avengers: Endgame title, if Endgame is going to be three hours long, what lessons they learned from the critical and commercial success of Black Panther, how Eternals will be different from the rest of the MCU movies, how he’s going to manage also doing Disney+ content, if there is any chance any Disney+ content could be released in theaters, how the editing is going on Spider-Man: Far From Home, and more.

Check out what Kevin Feige had to say below and make sure to see Captain Marvel in theaters this weekend in theaters!

Collider: The de-aging technology you used in Captain Marvel is crazy. Have you guys had any discussions about more movies taking place in earlier decades, like the '60s, and '70s? 

KEVIN FEIGE: Well, this was the movie for a long time that, because of our experience with Hank Pym, as you know, with Tony Stark, making those characters younger in limited scenes. Peggy Carter, we did in the top of the first Ant-Man film. We said, "We think the technology has gone far enough that we can do an entire movie, that we can have a main character in an entire movie de-aged." It helped that the characters, as I said at the press conference, was Clark Gregg and Sam Jackson, because those two haven't really aged like normal human beings over the past 20 years.

But I think it was tremendous the way it worked in Captain Marvel, and yeah, I think looking for new ways to use it is fun. I think we used to believe, and I think it used to be true, that you really could only do it for a scene or two. But we got to the point in later stages of finishing this movie, where we forgot. Where we were just used to it.

The first time I watched it, I was halfway through the movie, and I forgot about the technology. Which is why I'm just curious, because so much of Marvel's history is from the '60s and '70s. 

FEIGE: We love period pieces. World War II with the first Cap, the '90s here, so we're open to all of them, and we'd love to do it, and love to continue to fill out the lost gaps in MCU and the MCU timelines, of which '60s and '70s are a part of that.

Are you definitely using James Gunn's script for Guardians of the Galaxy 3, and where are you in the scripting process?

FEIGE: Yes, we are. That's as far as I'll go in terms of anything past Endgame and Spider-Man: Far From Home, in terms of what we're doing when. Because as you know, we've wanted to focus on Captain Marvel, Endgame, Spider-Man: Far From Home. Finishing out these 23 MCU movies. We have a grand plan going forward. We want to talk about it after Endgame and Far From Home. But as we've already confirmed and said, it's James' draft.

I do want to do one follow up on that.  You are developing Guardians of the Galaxy 3. You're using James' script, but James is not coming back to direct it. I'm curious if you have had any sort of resistance or feelers from directors who normally they would jump at a chance to do Marvel, but they're like, "I don't know if I want to come in for James Gunn on Guardians 3." 

FEIGE: No. I mean, when it was pushed back, it was pushed back. Meaning the release date, because it's not coming out...although we've never released date actually, but it was gonna happen sooner, rather than later, initially of course. Outside of knowing that we're gonna use his draft, [we have] been focusing on other projects.

You kept the title of Endgame really secretive for so long, and  I believe the Russos said it, even you said it, that the title is a big a spoiler. And I heard the title, Endgame, I'm like, "What? This is not a spoiler..."

FEIGE: Well, I think I'd said that it all had gotten blown out of proportion to some extent. But it was a spoiler, because if you knew before Infinity War came out that the next movie was called Endgame, then you know that there wasn't an ending to Infinity War. But that had been the title of the movie from the moment we conceived of doing the two films. In large part, because...it's seeded right there. I mean, it's seeded in Ultron.

I spoke to Joe and Anthony recently, and they said that the cut they have that they're happy with is three hours, which I loved. At this point now, are you guys releasing a three-hour movie, or do you think it's actually gonna get cut down a little bit?

FEIGE: We're gonna release the movie at the exact right running time. I'm telling you this, it's gonna be perfect. It's gonna be the exact running time that the movie needs to be.

Do you think it'll be close to three hours?

FEIGE: I think there's a lot of story in that movie and a lot of characters in that movie. In all seriousness, we don't look at run times in terms of mandates, or anything like that. Every movie should feel like it's an hour and 45 minutes. Now, some movies can be 90 minutes and feel like they're four hours. And some movies can be three and a half hours and feel like 90 minutes. So for us, that's what it ... It's, "how does it feel?" And every version of Endgame thus far, and the ones that we're honing in on, feel very good.

Listen, there is not one scene in Infinity War that's wasted. The thing I give credit to the Russos is that they are amazing at making every line of dialogue, every scene, matter and propel the story.

FEIGE: You're 100% correct.

So you're saying that there's a chance it's three hours?

FEIGE: Well, should it be...you want it to be four hours? What if it was five hours? I think running times get way too much attention pre-release of films. How long was Infinity War?

I think it was like two thirty?

FEIGE: There's a lot of story. We're gonna tell a lot of story, and it's gonna feel, I hope...certainly the versions that we've been showing to people as we hone in on it are feeling very good.

From these early screenings to the Marvel people and everyone who has seen it, what have you learned about the movie that maybe you weren't expecting?

FEIGE: Well, I'm not gonna talk specifically about screenings, but I will say...with the 22nd movie in the Marvel cinematic universe and the reaction to Infinity War, to see how deeply audiences are moved by these characters, and by our casts portrayal of these characters, is amazing. And is really the highlight of my career and my time at Marvel, seeing all of these actors grow into these roles, whether they've performed it 10 times, or twice, and how emotionally attached our audience has gotten to them, as you certainly can tell from the end of Infinity War. And that is something that means a lot.

What lessons did you learn from the critical and commercial success of Black Panther that you want to apply to future Marvel movies?

FEIGE: Well, the notion of letting a filmmaker with vision and with personal questions and personal stories to tell, has always been what we strive for. What Ryan [Coogler] achieved in Black Panther is sort of above and beyond in terms of exactly how personal and how meaningful. The notion that, if you tell a story in a personal way, put it on a big Marvel canvas, but can tell a deeply personal story, the world will respond, the world will come. We've been very lucky. That's been true in a lot of our movies, but certainly the way it was done on Black Panther trumps them all.

I know you're focused on those three films, but obviously, Eternals is something you guys have been developing for a little bit. Talk a little bit about how that might be different from some of the other MCU movies that have come before it.

FEIGE: Everything after Endgame, and after Spider-Man: Far From Home, will be different and be unique, as we try to make every film. But seeing returning characters is certainly something we're gonna do and want to do. But also introducing characters that the majority of the world has never heard of, much like Guardians, much like Avengers before we made Avengers. And there are lots of them. Eternals are one group, but we like the idea of introducing ensemble, doing an ensemble movie from the start, as opposed to building up as we did with the first Avengers, more like Guardians, not tonally, but in terms of introducing a new group of people. You were asking about '60s, and '70s before. Jack Kirby did an immense, amazing epic with Eternals that spans tens of thousands of years, and that's also something we haven't really done, which is why that among many other things post-Endgame, we find appealing.

Your time right now, I'm sure, is maxed out to the Nth degree. How are you gonna be introducing the Disney+ stuff to your schedule as it currently exists?

FEIGE: Well, we've already been doing that for quite a long time, and so far, so good. It's working out very well. The truth is, like executive producer Jonathan Schwartz, who you know, sitting over there, and Nate Moore on Panther, I don't want to name everybody, but we have an amazing team. You know some of them, Victoria Alonso and Louis D'esposito. We have the greatest team in the industry at Marvel Studios, and all of us have been together 10 years or more. And the team was overjoyed at the notion of being able to have another outlet to tell stories.

Do you think with the Disney+ stuff that it will be six to eight hours, these shows, or will some be shorter and some maybe longer?

FEIGE: All the above, yeah. I mean, I think it's gonna be story dependent, and that's what's so exciting about the streaming platform, is there aren't any rules necessarily. For us to have another outlet to tell stories, and to play with medium, and to do, not just deeper dives on characters that we've seen many times in the MCU, but haven't been able to devote six, seven, eight, nine, 10 hours to, is amazing, and is something that we've been working on for a while now, and still aren't gonna announce outside of the Loki series with Tom Hiddleston. But it's been extremely additive to the entire creative arc, not just of the Disney+ programs we're working on, but on the entire post-Endgame MCU. Because we've been able to weave them. We've been able to, for the first time, conceive of them together, and they will be intertwined with each other.

Marvel properties have shown to be the most popular thing around the world in terms of theatrical box office. Have you had an inkling of, "Maybe with the Loki series, maybe we want to do like a limited week or two-week run, where you can actually see it in the movie theater"?

FEIGE: We'll be doing movies, MCU movies that will be theatrical. We'll be doing a series that will be Disney+.

With Far From Home, where are you in the editing process, and how has the sequel turned out compared to how you thought it was gonna be going in?

FEIGE: Jon Watts has done a tremendous job. We're still in the first third of post, maybe entering the first half of post. There was an amazing team assembled on Homecoming that have returned, not just behind the camera, but the entire cast. So far—I'm knocking on wood—so far, so good.

Captain Marvel is in theaters this weekend.