Yesterday Marvel Studios announced its full Phase Three line-up, confirming those earlier reports which stated that Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark is set to join Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers in Captain America 3, which is now officially going by the title of Captain America: Civil War.
Now we’ve known for a few weeks that the studio intends to adapt the Civil War comic book story arc, and during that time many fans have questioned how Marvel can do so when the majority of their characters do not have secret identities – not to mention the fact that important characters such as Spider-Man are at different studios. Well, here’s Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige to explain:
“I don’t want to give too much away, but needless to say, the generalities of the [Superhero Registration] act are the same. Something happens. Perhaps, it’s culmative for things that have happened from all of the movies leading up to this point. As many of the governments of the world say, ‘We need to have some oversight of these guys. They need to report to somebody’. So, it falls more under that umbrella versus ‘take off your mask’. It’s not about the secret identity thing as much as it is about overall who reports to who and who can agree to an oversight. Because of now, in Avengers: Age of Ultron, there is no more Security Council, and obviously there is no more S.H.I.E.L.D. Stark is paying for it, Captain America is running it, and things occur that make governments began to question that.”
And as for those rumours that Sony is looking to sign a deal with Marvel Studios to have Spidey join the Cinematic Universe?
“Anything that wasn’t specifically and obviously revealed today is either not true at all, or still rumor until it’s worked out.”
So, what do you make about Feige’s comments on Civil War and Spider-Man? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below. You listen to our thoughts on the trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron using the player below:
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Originally published October 29, 2014. Updated July 3, 2023.
