Hello Marvel joined by this is Marvel.com assistant editor Mark Strummy Strum, and we have

Hey, it's Jeremy Latcham, executive producer of the Avengers and Senior Vice

President of Production and Development here at good old Marvel Studios.

Yeah, so we're recording this in sunny, what is this June, June? June,

June, yes. I'm in town for E3. You guys are going to be listening to this a little bit later, but we had an opportunity to sit with Jeremy to talk about basically his awesome career and Marvel Z Avengers, which is, I don't know if you guys have seen the movie, it's pretty good. I think we had, you know,

decent numbers for how we did. We're okay with it, but how did you get into Marvel? Like, where did you come

from to get to Marvel? Well Well I've been at Marvel.

It seems like now I've been here for a really long time.

I got to Marvel in 2004 and when I got to Marvel there were

about seven people on the West Coast I think and I was an assistant to a

gentleman named David Maiselle. Dave Maiselle at the time I believe was the

president of Marvel and he had a really ambitious idea about film financing.

The idea was that if you took a slate of films and got them financed,

that it would be less risk than making one picture at a time.

And since Marvel had so many great characters,

we should have someone finance a whole slate of Marvel character films and wouldn't that be cool and we had this dream of

Oh, yeah, we could make some films. That sounds neat. We could make them on our own, you know, I mean

Sonis had success making Marvel movies and foxes had success making Marvel

movies and new line had success making the blade films so wouldn't that be

interesting and now all this is happening and of course I'm

23 at the time and just started at Marvel

I'm just answering David's phones and picking up lunch and just happy to be here and

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