In a recent interview to collider, Marvel President,
Kevin Feige talked about the possibility of making Iron Man 4, Haley Atwell’s
Agent Carter short film and when they will officially announce the Phase 3
films.
“…
Listen, I love Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark. He is Tony Stark. Whatever you had to pay him to join the
sequels was worth it. However, I’m happy
that you guys aren’t doing Iron Man 4.
Because if you’re not, it means Dr. Strange, it means Ant Man. It means you guys making other stuff, because
there’s only so many slots. To get the
new, you have to phase out the old.
FEIGE: Or just find a balance.
Exactly. I
definitely wanna ask quickly: do you foresee making Iron Man 4, or do you think
that, like Hulk, that’s what’s gonna make Avengers special? Getting those characters just for those
films. Do you know what I mean?
FEIGE: I’ve said it before and it wasn’t negotiating
tactics. I believe Tony Stark is as
strong a character as Batman. We’re
about to head into our fifth or sixth Batman – however, you wanna look at it –
James Bond, etc. So, there will
absolutely be future Tony Starks and future Iron Mans. Who makes those movies, and when those movies
are made, who knows? I don’t know. But, the notion with Robert’s contract in The
Avengers 2 & 3, is to allow new characters.
Part of what we love about The Avengers is the shifting roster. That’s what’s fun about the comic book
movies. You shift them up. So, certainly that was a lot of the thought
process that went into it.
Myself and all of my readers want to know, when are
you announcing your 2016 and 2017 movies?
FEIGE: Well, it’s only 2013 now. But, I think it would probably be, at the
earliest, a year from now.
Oh really?
FEIGE: Yes.
Are you doing anything special? Do people need to be at D23 if they’re a
Marvel fan?
FEIGE: Absolutely.
Totally. It’s a unique, big, and
important Disney corporate event.
How much do you have to start planning for D23 and
Comic-Con now to make sure that you have the goods at both?
FEIGE: D23’s not every year.
Oh, is it every other year?
FEIGE: It’s at least every other year. And D23 has the slight advantage that it
takes place a little bit later. So, for
movies that are currently filming, there will be more stuff available at that
point.
What do you think and what have you heard about James
Gunn? Because to me, that was a choice
way out of left field, but I’m super excited.
FEIGE: I hear that our directorial choices are out
of left field every time I make a director choice. So, when I hear that, I go, “I think we made
the right choice.” James has actually
done more features than the Russos or Joss Whedon, or Jon Favreau. And he’s certainly done more with Super
andSlither, that genre fans know and recognize him. I think that the people who know who he is
are excited by that unique voice working on a scale this big. And that’s why we hired him. He does have a unique voice. He understands what we wanted to do with
Guardians, and he exceeded expectations across the board, so we’ll see what
he’s got in store.
I saw the Agent Carter short last night. It is fantastic.
FEIGE: Your comment “way better than last year”:
does that mean you didn’t like Item 47 or that you just thought this was
better.
Do you want me to be honest with you?
FEIGE: Yes.
I had issues with it. Last night’s short though, was
fantastic. If you showed that to people
before a movie, they would erupt, because you have Haley Atwell, who is
phenomenal, and I love her as Agent Carter.
And you have great production value.
You’ve spent real money on this thing and it shows. It looks great. I don’t want to spoil this for those who
haven’t seen it, but for me, when it was over, I wanted to see further
adventures with a certain character who’s in it. I could see more of it. Talk about opening the door on that. Is it something that you feel like really
works after watching it?
FEIGE: The shorts never start out as that. The shorts are always just us wanting to do a
little extra, and a little something fun.
We have a team in place. Louis D.
Esposito has an incredible directorial eye.
So, we just wanna do it. And our
relationships with our cast that Lou can call Hayley and she gets on a plane
and comes over and does it. They always
just start as fun. Then, when you look
at them, the fun is, expanding the universe.
That’s the fun about it. We take
a character we haven’t seen since Cap 1.
And I would say, in certain ways, the Coulson shorts, which look very
quaint now compared to Agent Carter, but we knew we were killing him. The whole purpose of that was, see more of
him before we killed him. Make him more
of a fan favorite. And with Hayley, her
character, her presence and story affects Cap in the next Cap movie. So that made sense, to have this be a bridge
between the two movies to see more of it.
And, we just wanted to see a kick ass adventure with Hayley. But, once they’re done, we see that we’ve
expanded the universe and people have responded to it, is there anything else
we can do with them? And it was a broad
conversation like that after Item 47, which some people really liked (laughs),
that-
Well-
FEIGE: I’m kidding!
I’m giving you a hard time. In
some ways, it helped to push Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. forward. What Agent Carter does, who knows? It’s all about just finishing it right now,
which is now done, and then we’ll figure out what happens next.”
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