Kevin Feige is no stranger to teasing us with information about Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, and even though we hate the teasing, we also love it very much. And even though I am sure he was one of the a-holes behind firing Edgar Wright off the Ant-Man film, he still is the producer of each and every flick that comes out of Marvel Studios. Phase One of the
Marvel Universe introduced us to our Avenger characters, and it ended beautifully with the first Avengers movie. Marvel Studios would be stupid if they didn’t follow that template again, and Phase Two is falling right into place, with Avengers: Ag of Ultron closing it out. Feige addresses how this template works, and mentions that they plan on ending each Phase with an Avengers movie, at least for now.
Yeah, I don’t know if it will always be like that, but certainly because that is the template from Phase 1, it makes sense that it will be at least close to that.
He then went on to talk a little bit about Doctor Strange, and we all know that the movie will be officially announced at Comic Con, and the lead actor will hopefully be announced.
I think we’re fairly close, but it’s not imminent.
He said it’s not going to happen, but we know they love to give us surprises. We heard over the weekend that Marvel has set dates for five new movies, but of course those titles are up in the air.
I’ve always said that we like the movies to feel different from one another, so that we can do two movies a year, for years and years and years, and not have people thinking we’re getting formulaic or predictable. We’ve put out four movies in 15 months, Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy, all the Phase Two movies. I’m very proud that all of those Phase Two movies in 15 months were all successful. Well, this one isn’t out yet, so I don’t know, but all are very different from one another and very unique from one another, particularly from The Winter Soldier going into Guardians. I think the strategy there, even if it’s a reverse-engineered strategy, is putting out one film a year that is a sequel to an existing franchise, that is anticipated and people know about and, hopefully, excited about, and then put out a movie that people haven’t heard of yet, that is a new property like Guardians this year and Ant-Man next year, that can hopefully grow and become something else, so we keep doing new things, as opposed to Iron Man 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12.
New plan: release a new movie and a sequel a year. There are many Marvel characters out there to still be realized, but you got to wonder what they will do with their franchises now. Let me know what you think about this info.
Source: Movieweb