Having penned the scripts for Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, it’s fair to say that screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely have played a major role in shaping the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The duo still have the as-yet-untitled Avengers 4 to come, but asked by Variety whether the 2019 sequel will be their Marvel swansong, McFeely revealed that they are open to working with Marvel Studios again at some point in the future.
“If it is, we’re pretty happy with it. Because boy, Avengers 4, if anything, is better than what you just saw [with Infinity War],” said McFeely. “We’re very pleased with how it’s shaping up. We started this new company. We would love to go back to Marvel at some point, if they’ll have us. But we have this weird, new job where we get to help out a lot of other projects and write our own. It’s really sort of a dream scenario. If it doesn’t kill us, we’d like to try it for a while.”
The comments from Markus and McFeely echo those of Infinity War directors Anthony and Joe Russo, who indicated back in January that they would be open to working with Marvel again. And, given that Avengers: Infinity War has just shattered box office records, one would have to assume that the feeling is mutual…
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An unprecedented cinematic journey ten years in the making and spanning the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Infinity War” brings to the screen the ultimate, deadliest showdown of all time. The Avengers and their Super Hero allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.
Avengers: Infinity War stars Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America), Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther), Tom Holland (Spider-Man), Sebastian Stan (Winter Soldier), Anthony Mackie (Falcon), Paul Bettany (Vision), Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch), Don Cheadle (War Machine), Josh Brolin (Thanos), Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange), Benedict Wong (Wong), Chris Pratt (Star-Lord), Zoe Saldana (Gamora), Dave Bautista (Drax), Bradley Cooper (Rocket), Sean Gunn (Rocket), Vin Diesel (Groot), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Pom Klementieff (Mantis), Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), Cobie Smulders (Maria Hill), Benicio Del Toro (The Collector), Danai Gurira (Okoye), Letitia Wright (Shuri), Winston Duke (M’Baku), Terry Notary (Cull Obsidian), Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Ebony Maw), Carrie Coon (Proxima Midnight), Michael James Shaw (Corvus Glaive) and Peter Dinklage (Eitri).