Among the feedback on Shuler Donner’s desk, as the pile of X-Men scripts grew, were notes on the scripts from her assistant, who had started four years earlier as an intern. “Because Lauren is an amazing mentor and is so gracious, she would read the notes,” said that assistant, Kevin Feige. “Eventually she started saying, ‘Hey, come into the office and sit with me.’ I would be sitting with Tom DeSanto, who’s the producer of X-Men, and Bryan Singer, who was the newly hired director, and I just started to become a part of that creative team.”
