Avi Arad
Avi Arad
Avi Aradis an Israeli-American businessman. He became the CEO of the company Toy Biz in the 1990s, and soon afterward became the chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment, a Marvel director, and the chairman, CEO, and founder of Marvel Studios...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionBusiness Executive
Date of Birth1 August 1948
CityGivatayim, Israel
CountryIsrael
character heart stories
Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.
technology years people
Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.
new-york costumes said
The skeptics said you can't put on a costume in the middle of New York - which isn't true, because everyone's in a costume here.
people aviation comic
Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.
book aviation comic
At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.
crazy hero emotional
The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.
thinking make-you-think should
Everything you see that makes you think about the comics, I think you should read into it.
jobs book kids
Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books.
judging going-away stuff
On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.
spiritual buddhist guy
There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' - he is mentally committed to it. He's doing another movie now. What's most important to me about this guy, first, is that he's incredible with visuals. But he's also a spiritual guy, a Zen Buddhist. ... Galactus is a force of nature, not a being. That's all I'm saying.
attract excited help hollywood incredibly launch marvel produced talent top wave
We are incredibly excited to be able to attract some of Hollywood's top talent to help Marvel launch the first wave of our independently produced film slate.
design script work
a lot of design work has been done on it. The script is gigantic.
best drawn great ongoing start television
You start with great stories, and probably the best storyboards that have ever been drawn for any movie or television show, on an ongoing basis.
businesses core games meant movies support titles video
The movies are there to support the core businesses of toys, licensing, video games and publishing. Each of these titles is meant to be a franchise.