Marvel’s plans for their superheroes over the next few years are no doubt exciting, with a slew of different characters getting their own movies, which will eventually lead to the massive superhero mash-up that is The Avengers. Well, co-ordinating such as complicated idea was always going to prove, especially with numerous screenwriters, directors and actors working on different projects.
It’s something screenwriter Zac Penn is going to have to sort out as he’s the one writing The Avengers. During a panel discussion at the LA Film Festival recently, Penn gave some insight into the process, saying, “They’re doing Captain American and Thor first, and then Avengers is coming out. They want to see that they’re all connected, not like the Fantastic Four can’t come into the X-Men world, like I was told. I’m taking a meeting next week with the Thor and Captain America people, and we are all going to get together, and I will see what is going to happen. I’ll see where they are leaving the characters; it’s pretty complicated. There’s a board that is tracking what is happening, how this movie overlaps in that movie. Marvel is autonomous now. It is night and day: Everyone has read every comic. They know how to make a cool movie.”
The comment about X-Men and Fantastic Four dates back to his work on the X-Men sequels, where Fox balked at his idea of having some sort of crossover with the studio’s other major Marvel franchise, Fantastic Four.
While we’ll have to wait until 2012 to see he Avengers, it’s certainly going to be interesting to see how the whole thing is going to work out.