CAPTAIN AMERICA is the next Marvel Movie after HULK
6/14/2007
Posted by Frosty
Earlier today I did a set visit for the upcoming movie “Iron Man” and was able to participate in a pretty long press conference with Kevin Feige – the President of Production at Marvel. While I’m under embargo for anything “Iron Man” (so please don’t ask) I’m allowed to write up anything else that we were told about the various other Marvel projects in development.
So here is some great info on the upcoming “Captain America” movie.
It seems that they’re aiming to get the Captain into theaters in 2009 and he's definitely the next Marvel movie after "The Incredible Hulk."
I’ll be working on transcribing more quotes so check back for more great stuff from today’s set visit.
Robert (IESB): Now the fact that Marvel is controlling Thor, Captain America and Iron Man is there a possibility of an Ultimate Avengers storyline in the future?
Kevin Feige: I would love, yeah…the idea that what was preventing certain characters from crossing over in the past was the fact that they were all divvied up with different studios with big giant gates in between them and they couldn’t play in the same sandbox and now that we have Hulk and Thor and Cap and Iron Man and Ant Man, certainly would indicate to me that it might be fun to see them all in the same sandbox at some point. But certainly we’re introducing them and building them into their own franchises first.
Ryan Rotten: So no Marvel Zombies.
Marvel Zombies is pretty cool.
Frosty: Is there a certain priority in what you want to do next after Hulk?
Captain America. For sure.
Robert (IESB): How will you tackle the challenge that America is not perceived so well across the world and you’re putting the champion of America…is it going to be traditional red, white and blue spandex, shield - the whole thing?
Well I think we’ll certainly have to play with that and play with Captain America being this patriotic propaganda machine on one hand but also being a very human Steve Rogers – interesting, fascinating hero in his own right. The good news is Marvel is perceived pretty well around the world right now and I think putting another uber Marvel hero into the worldwide box office will be a good thing. The script that David Self is writing, the director that we end up hiring, and certainly we’re going into it with our eyes open and these are all things that we have to deal with much the same way that Captain America when thawed from the Arctic Ice entered a world he didn’t recognize and had to deal with changes… whether it was when Stan did it in the early 60’s and that world that Steve Rogers was coming into or the world of 2009.
Robert (IESB): So no chance of a period piece for Captain America?
Right now what we’re developing would be half and half.
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