Writer SHE-HULK threatened to leave KEVIN wearing a hat and Kevin Feige wished her well

Sounds like the idea of ​​the KEVIN robot wearing a hat She-Hulk: lawyer it caused a lot more tension than we initially knew. In fact, the lead writer of the series Jessica Gao threatened to resign if he couldn’t, e Kevin Feige she was really willing to let her go!

Here’s what was previously shared about how the whole hat thing came about. When the creative team ended up landing on the idea that KEVIN was an AI robotic machine for the show, they wanted to give him that classic Kevin Feige accessory. Gao said:

“I wrote in the script that when he sees this big AI machine, he’s wearing a black baseball cap, a classic Kevin Feige-style black baseball hat. When the [visual development team] he was showing us several possible sketches of KEVIN, they were all wearing caps. It didn’t matter what kind of robot or machine he was, she wore a black baseball cap over it. [Human] Kevin said, “Well, it doesn’t make sense, why would a robot wear a hat?” I said: ‘This is the part that doesn’t make sense to you, Kevin, that’s the line of logic you won’t cross, we represented you as an artificial intelligence brain that controls all the Marvel Cinematic Universes, but the thing that you fail to overcome is that he might have a hat on top of the car? ‘ And he said, ‘Yes.’ “

The creative team eventually made their way with the robot KEVIN wearing a hat. But it came with a compromise: “The hat would actually have been incorporated into the robot, instead of just sitting on top of the robot’s head.”

Now we’re learning that things have gotten a lot more heated and tense about the whole hat thing. Feige was by no means a fan of the idea. In a recent interview with THR, Gao said:

“In the first draft [of the finale script], I described the robot as an Akira meeting an AI brain / robot similar to HAL 9000, and the script specifically said he was wearing a black baseball cap on top. And in real life Kevin said, ‘Well, it doesn’t make any sense. Why should a robot wear a hat? ‘”

“And I said, ‘Is this the logical problem you have with this, Kevin? And not that [She-Hulk] breaks the last fourth wall, arrives at Marvel Studios, fights to meet you and you are a real robot, but is it the fact that the robot shouldn’t be wearing a hat? ‘ And he said, ‘Yeah, it doesn’t make any sense. So he shouldn’t have a hat. ‘”

She then said she actually said she would quit if she couldn’t put the hat on the robot’s head, and Feige was happy to let her go on her way:

“I was angry and in this big meeting, in front of about 20 people, I said, ‘Kevin, if you don’t let me put a hat on that robot, then I’m off.’ And then there was a split second pause, and he just said, ‘Thank you so much, Jessica. You did a great job for us and we really appreciate everything.’ “

Whoa! Thankfully, the show’s head of visual development has come up with a solution to appease both Gao and Feige:

“Jackson Sze, who was head of the vis-dev team and always the mediator, very kindly suggested we incorporate something into the design of the robot that would make it look like he was wearing a hat, and that was the perfect compromise.”

All this on a stupid hat. Hollywood is crazy. These are the kinds of debates and discussions that take place behind closed doors at Marvel Studios! Should a Kevin robot wear a hat or not? So stupid. Nobody cares about the hat, just tell us a good story!