Marvel President Talks About The Avengers Movie
Marvel Studios production president Kevin Feige is a bit of a chatterbox lately, only the other day he was talking about all the Marvel superhero movies he would like to make and today he’s talking about The Avengers.
Okay, up first…
By the time The Avengers comes in 2012, it’s not just a team superhero movie with a bunch of characters with powers. It’s three people, four including Hulk, five including Nick Fury — who you have seen before in other movies — coming together for the very first time.
Right, then…
It’s not about cramming in lots of new people. That’s sort of the cardinal sin of the sequel, adding too many characters. … My only concern is that when we launch a franchise, whichever character’s franchise that may be, it should stand on its own two feet. With Iron Man being the first one out of the gate, thank goodness that’s what happened. Everyone loved it. Its our job to do the same with Thor and Captain America two years from now.
Slow down Kev, take a breather…
Now, how does Thor fit into the newer more realistic approach to superhero movies that Marvel seem to be taking? Surely it will be tough to merge Iron Man’s hi-tech-ery with Thor’s fantasy-um-ery?
I don’t think it will be difficult … we’re doing the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby/Walt Simonson/J. Michael Straczynski Thor. We’re not doing the “blow the dust off the old Norse book in your library” Thor. In the Thor of the Marvel universe there’s a race called the Asgardians, and [humans are] linked through this tree of life that we’re unaware of. It’s real science, but we don’t know about it yet. The Thor movie is about teaching people that.
I like Kev, he’s chatty…
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