Det är inte länge sedan som finalen av She-Hulk: Attorney at Law gick av stapeln och lämnade oss på redaktionen med minst sagt svala intryck men vi blev trots det förvånade över hur seriens sista avsnitt förde Jennifer Walters (She-Hulk) rakt ut genom den fjärde väggen och in i själva hjärnan av MCU.
Tydligen var allt styrt av en hyperintelligent AI som verkar ha rört upp en del diskussioner borta hos Marvel själva. Manusförfattaren Jessica Gao hotade nämligen att helt och hållet lämna projektet om hon inte fick igenom sin vilja att sätta en liten baseballkeps i sann Kevin Feige-anda på roboten K.E.V.I.N för att befästa likheten med Fegie ytterligare. Marvelbossen var inte lika övertygad om att den lilla hatten var rätt väg att gå och var faktiskt villig att släppa sin huvudskribent över dispyten innan teamet kom fram till att låta kepsen vara en del av AI:n istället för att ha den liggandes på huvudet, något som båda parter godtog. I en intervju med
The Hollywood Reporter hade Gao detta att säga om situationen:
I wrote in the script that when she sees this big AI machine, it's wearing a little black baseball hat, a classic Kevin Feige-style black baseball hat. When the [visual development team] was showing us different possible sketches of K.E.V.I.N., they were all wearing little hats. No matter what type of robot or machine it was, it was wearing a little black baseball hat on top. [Human] Kevin said, 'Well, that doesn't make a lick of sense, why would a robot wear a hat?' I said, 'That's the part that doesn't make sense to you, Kevin, that is the line of logic that you won't cross, we have you represented as an AI brain that is controlling all of the Marvel Cinematic Universes, but the thing that you can't get past is that it might have a hat on top of the machine?' And he said, 'Yeah.
In the first draft [of the finale script], I described the robot as an Akira meets a HAL 9000-like AI brain/robot, and the script specifically said that it's wearing a little black baseball cap on top. And real-life Kevin said, 'Well, that doesn't make any sense. Why would a robot wear a hat?
And I said, 'That's the logic issue you have with this, Kevin? And not that [She-Hulk] breaks the ultimate fourth wall, comes to Marvel Studios, fights her way to meet you and you are an actual robot, but it's the fact that the robot should not be wearing a hat?' And he said, 'Yeah, it doesn't make a lick of sense. So it shouldn't have a hat.
I was incensed, and in this big meeting, in front of like 20 people, I said, 'Kevin, if you don't let me put a hat on that robot, then I quit.' And then there was a split-second pause, and he just went, 'Thank you very much, Jessica. You've done some great work for us, and we really appreciate everything.
Jackson Sze, who was head of the vis-dev team and ever the mediator, very gently suggested that they incorporate something into the design of the robot that would make it look like it was wearing a hat, and that was the perfect compromise.
Vad tycker du? Robot med eller utan keps?