Captain
America: The Winter Soldier and Thor: Dark World - Interview
In
an interview with Collider, the writers from Captain America: The First
Avenger, Christopher Markus and
“(Collider): While McFeely and Markus are the sole screenwriters credited on Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the duo also had
a hand in the script for Marvel’s Thorsequel. Steve asked the duo about their
involvement with that film, and they talked about the multiple screenwriters
who did some work on the pic while also revealing that the film will spend much
more time on Asgard:
Stephen McFeely: [The Thor: The Dark World script] was in good shape, we left it in good
shape. There are a few different masters on Thor. It’s a hard project to get right, I’m really
impressed with the first one; I know how difficult it is to get the balance
between Earth and Asgard right and that still is the case, you’ve gotta figure
out a way to balance both worlds.
Christopher Markus: You get a lot
more Asgard in this one in a satisfying way.
McFeely: Chris Yost sort of was the
guy on set, and then Don Payne who recently passed did the first draft.
And then Robert Rodat did at least a draft before we came on, and then even
some other people.
Markus: It’s a party line
(laughs). Surprisingly, I wouldn’t let that worry you. It came out really tight.
(Collider) Thor: The Dark World is wrapped and set for release later this year,
but production only just began on Captain America: The Winter Soldier. When Steve spoke with the
screenwriters as
they were just beginning work on the Capsequel, they said we could expect a fair amount of
flashbacks in the follow-up. However, it appears that the initial plan
has evolved quite a bit:
Markus: [There was] a fairly dramatic change. I
mean we haven’t thrown anything out but I think structurally we had something
in mind that might serve us better in another movie down the line.
McFeely:
When we talked to you that would’ve been summer of 2011 so we were at the
“anything’s possible” stage so we were heading down a particular road that had
a few more generous flashbacks, and we didn’t go quite down that road.
Frankly, Kevin Feige came in and said like two words and we
went “Oh, those are two really good words. Let’s go that way.” I
mean I’m very pleased with where we’ve ended up.
(Collider) One of the
major changes that we only recently learned about is the fact that Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow plays a major role in the
story. Markus explained that the character provides a nice foil for Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers:
Markus: [Black Widow is] a great—both in attitude and in
profession—a great contrast to Steve Rogers. She’s incredibly modern, not
very reverent, and just very straightforward whereas Steve is, you know a man
from the 40s. He’s not a boy scout, but he is reserved and has a moral
center, whereas her moral center moves.”
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