Inside Marvel Studios: de toekomst van het MCU

Inside Marvel Studios: de toekomst van het MCUTijdens de Open Huis-tour van Marvel Studios werden er via clips en concept-art heel wat details prijsgegeven over de toekomstige Marvel Cinematic Universe-films Spider-Man: Homecoming, Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther, Ant-Man and the Wasp en Captain Marvel! Marvel Studios-baas Kevin Feige ging in een gesprek met The Hollywood Reporter in verschillende films. Feige sprak eerst over Joss Whedon, de Avengers 1 en 2 regisseur, die binnenkort begint aan Batgirl:

“He called a couple months ago, which he didn’t have to do and was super cool of him and super nice of him. And we couldn’t be more supportive. We want to see a Joss Whedon Batgirl film be awesome.”

Over de toekomst van Spider-Man in het MCU zei Feige:

“Spider-Man: Homecoming,Avengers: Infinity War and  a Homecoming sequel. That’s as far as it goes for now. We had a very particular plan about Spidey himself.” 

Wat die plannen inhielde, werd niet duidelijk. Feige sprak vervolgens over Josh Brolin. Hij gaat de rol gaat spelen van Cable in Deadpool 2, terwijl hij in het MCU invulling geeft aan Thanos:

“We don’t have anything written into our contracts about other roles that people can do. Indiana Jones and Han Solo are the same person … it hasn’t been a problem. And I think Thanos and Cable are two very different characters.”

Wat heeft Feige geleerd van Logan en Deadpool?

“My takeaway from both of those films is not the R rating; it’s the risk they took, the chances they took, the creative boundaries that they pushed. That should be the takeaway for everyone.”

Tijdens de tour werd er ook gesproken met Ant-Man regisseur Peyton Reed. Hij gaf kleine hints over het volgend jaar te verschijnen Ant-Man and the Wasp:

“One of the great things about it for me is that we can sit around during script phase and even before script phase and go, ‘Let’s do this!’ or ‘I have a great idea for a gag! We’d sit around and talk about it or I’d do a really crude sketch of an idea. There’s a lot of shrinking and growing and it really is the arc of how Ant-Man and Wasp come together as a team…We know that Pym Technologies was destroyed in the first movie. Where is he now? What’s he doing?”

Hij vervolgde:

“The suits are basically delivery systems for the shrinking and growing technology. What if it could be a vehicle or something like that? …One of the things about our movie that’s different and that I love is that all the Ant-Man, Giant Man and Wasp technology is all a product of the Hank Pym character. It has to have a different look than the stuff that Stark designs and that the other characters design.”

De Marvel Studios ziet er als volgt uit. De volgende film in het MCU is Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2, welke vanaf 27 april te zien zal zijn. Op 6 juli keert Tom Holland’s webslingeraar terug in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Daarnaa eindigt Marvel Studios 2017 met Thor: Ragnarok. In februari 2018 zien we Black Panther en in mei Avengers: Infinity War. Tussen Infinity War en de sequel, kunnen fans zich nog verheugen op Ant-Man and the Wasp in juli en Captain Marvel in mei.