Kevin Feige over de Marvel Cinematic Universe

Kevin Feige is President of Production bij Marvel Studios en hij was onder andere verantwoordelijk voor Iron Man en The Incredible Hulk. In een interview met SuperHeroHype legt hij onder andere uit wat de toekomstplannen zijn voor Marvels comicverfilmingen.

If you asked me five years ago, I wouldn't have thought we'd be talking about "The Avengers" now. For the time being, there's only one place for connective tissue within the Marvel Universe and within this new MCU, Marvel Cinematic Universe that we're building and those are in the Marvel Studios movies.

En;

It is something that we're looking at the ongoing cinematic universe and where it could go after "The Avengers" which we look at as a beginning and not an ending. Listen, the truth is, there's thousands and thousands of characters. Could they all be movies? No. But when you go and look again at the first two movies that have started sort of this new Marvel era. The first one was "Blade" which nobody knew was a Marvel character and never had his own title. It was just an interesting character in "Tomb of Dracula," and then there was "X-Men" which was the top selling comic – not anymore, but at the time for many, many years – and that was done well. So certainly we are making a conscious effort of looking at the characters, at whether they have marquee value or not, (that they) are just interesting stories, engaging stories and continue to define, which is what I've been trying to do almost coming up on 10 years at Marvel, continue to push the boundaries of what a comic book movie is and the definition of a comic book movie.

En nog even over Ant-Man;

"Ant-Man" will definitely not come out prior to "The Avengers," but Edgar was in LA last week. We sat down. We started working on a calendar of when to get him back into it once he finishes "Scott Pilgrim" and promoting "Scott Pilgrim." So I would think towards the end of this year, early next year we'd start looking at early prep for that, but certainly for a release date after "The Avengers.