Earlier
this morning while attending the quarterly shareholders meeting, Walt Disney
CEO Bob Iger dropped some "news" regarding the future of the MCU,
mainly the whole Man of Steel 2 vs. Captain America 3, the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy.
First up
was Captain America 3 and the "battle" with Warner Bros./DC Comics
Man of Steel 2.
"Captain America: The Winter Soldier has far
surpassed the first Captain America in total
global box office, which obviously bodes well for our Avengers franchise," said Iger. "We’ve had enormous success releasing Marvel movies on the first
weekend of May, including the two biggest domestic openings of all time. And
we’ll continue this tradition with the Avengers Age of Ultron next year
and Captain America 3 in 2016. Avengers Age of Ultron is
currently shooting an early footage and looks great."
The CEO
then went on to talk about the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy.
"This August 1st,
we’re looking forward to introducing the world to more fantastic Marvel
storytelling, with a great cast of new characters in Guardians of the Galaxy, which
we screened last week and we believe it has strong franchise potential," he
said.
By the end of the meeting, Iger was
asked to share his thoughts on the company's expansion and whether he thinks
Marvel is at a new high level, considering the success of Captain America: The
Winter Soldier.
"Marvel is, as far as
we're concerned, is just getting started," he said. "The results of Captain America, though I think are very,
very telling, because when you look at the film that is approaching almost $700
million in global box office, I think $680 million, and you compare that to Captain America 1, which did under $400
million worldwide and even look at it versus Thor movies, a few of the Iron Man
movies, you're looking at a film that has actually done substantially better
than a lot of the Marvel films that we put out." He continued, "Now, it was a great film, but it's clear that momentum is building
for that franchise and with Avengers 2 in
production and coming up and characters from Avengers still
very much in favor with audiences, I think there is huge potential there. In
addition to that, we've got a new film, Guardians of the Galaxy coming
out August 1 in the United States this summer, which we've seen, I mentioned in
my comments. We feel quite good about that too. That's a whole other Marvel
realm or universe in terms of where it takes place, the characters that
populate it and the stories that you can tell for those characters. So, I
think, I'm not going to predict that we've got another Avengers on our
hands, but that's certainly the goal."
Iger also made a few announcements regarding future
Star Wars movies.
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