Marvel Studios Chief Teases 'Captain America,' 'Spider-Man' and TV's 'Daredevil' |
While promoting the home video release of Avengers: Age of Ultron this week, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige addressed a number of topics regarding the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Here are the most notable bits:
Captain America: Civil War ends an era
It'll have been a brief "era," spanning only five years, from 2011 to 2016, but the end of the time of the first wave of Captain America movies will arrive with the third, Captain America: Civil War, next May. That's not to believe we won't be seeing a fourth solo movie from the character, but Feige stated that Civil War is "very much, in a certain way, the completion of a Captain America trilogy." He also made the claim that when it'll be looked at as "one of the most unique and different trilogies ever around a single character."
Spider-Man will serve a great purpose in the MCU but won't be defined by it
It's not just the fans who think Spider-Man joining the MCU is the best thing to ever happen to comic book movies. Feige stated that MCU is "where he belongs" and that Spidey serves a great purpose in this franchise because he's so diffferent from the rest of the heroes in the Avengers-based series.
He also clarified just how the character will fit -- in Marvel's megamovies and Sony's standalone installments. "The most important thing as a standalone is relaunching Spider-Man in his own standalone movie with his own storylines that fits into this universe," he said. "That is job number one for us. ... The connectivity is great, but it doesn't drive the train."
Feige and his team have plans for when other Marvel characters return home where they belong
In answering the question of how they were able to quickly slip Spider-Man into the MCU, Feige hinted that Marvel plans for such deals over all, as in not just for Spidey but the X-Men and Fantastic Four, too. "We always had contingency plans," he admitted, "which we always do anyways ... If we get the rights to a certain character that’d be great, then we’d do this, if not, we’d do this. So we always sort of operate with those alternate timelines available and are ready to shift if something happens."
While the small screen MCU properties, namely ABC's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter and Netfix's Daredevil have made plenty of references to the events in their big-screen brothers, the movies have never alluded to them. That will likely change, according to Feige. He said, "Going forward and certainly as they begin to do more shows and cast them with such great actors as they have -- particularly Daredevil -- that may occur."
But he stresses how it's much more doable for the shows to reference the movies than vice versa. "A lot of it is by the time we start doing a movie, they'd be midway through a season; by the time it comes out they'd be done with the second, starting the third season," he explained. "Finding timing on that is not always easy."
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