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You mentioned downstairs that this film takes place around the same time asIncredible Hulk.
Exactly where it takes place.
Did you see that?
They have not shown us the Easter egg at the end of the movie.
Feige: That’s not it.
It’s in the movie-movie.
Unless, everything…. ooh interesting!
I think I just put it all together!
Feige: There is some cross-over.
I’ve been hit in the face.
I completely understand now.
Yeah, I was talking about it the other night that I needed to see it again.
Feige: I don’t like talking riddles actually.
I really don’t.
But I wish you’d held back on the suitcase suit.
Truth is, they’ve got to use almost everything to sell the movie, right?
That’s how it’s… Feige: That’s how you sell tickets.
But I like the experience of going to a movie and seeing something I didn’t expect to see.
And I mean I’m sure that you guys are dealing with it inIron Man.
Feige: Do they….
I’m going to get ridiculed for bringing upTwilightby the way.
Feige: I was going to say do you coverTwilighton your….I guess you have to.
I’m a whore for movies.
Feige: But those are based on books….everyone knows the secrets and stuff don’t they?
I mean the comics have been around for a little while.
Feige: I’ve not read theTwilightbooks.
Does the first movie diverge from the….
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I’ve not read the books.
Feige: That’s why I don’t know.
I have no idea.
That’s what I think is fun for us developing the movies.
How are they going to adapt this?
Whiplash is a great example.
And I think fans are coming to expect how are they going to sort of change those things?
Feige: Well, Fox has mutants and Sony/Universal…Universal doesn’t have anything.
Sony’s gotSpideyandGhostrider, and those family of characters.
And Fox hasX-MenandFantastic FourandDaredeviland those family of characters.
But any mutants in particular?
Feige: It’s pretty all encompassing.
I mean they’re very specific character by character.
Every character they have the rights to have is named specifically in contracts.
And it’s a long, long, long list.
Is there a thing…
Feige: SoDazzlerfor instance would be Fox.
Feige: Because she’s a mutant.
Is that story accurate or is that…?
Feige: Well I don’t know if the budget numbers are accurate.
Because taking risks is kind of code for not doing the standard thing, right?
I’ve talked a lot aboutIron Fistand a lot aboutDr.
StrangeandBlack Pantherand clearly been working onAnt-Manwith Edgar on and off for many years.
And what are the next batches?
But I loved that it was a character that no one ever heard of.
Never even had his stand alone book even.
He was just an interesting character inTome of Dracula, right?
And that became a very cool, more or less a very cool franchise.
Feige: I think we’re open to anything.
I think we’re open to PG and clearly PG-13 is our wheelhouse.
We don’t have a policy that anyone’s told me about that would preclude any of that.
Feige: You know all the contracts are different and they’re all very specific.
Is there any truth to that rumor?
Feige: There is truth to rumor that in the comics that’s the case.
I think in the Ultimates II they reveal that.
Believe that this billionaire can come up with a big metal suit.
Believe that this Russian guy, this Russian grease monkey with the plans can make one.
Believe that this scientist was exposed to gamma rays and he turned into this.
Believe in Thor that there are other realms that you don’t know about that exist in our universe.
And it’s kind of like one buy per film is what we like to live with.
And I don’t know if we’re going for that buy with Nick Fury necessarily.
When is it too much?
That’s an excellent point.
We look at Thor as the cosmic, right?
We look atThoras the…sort of heading into to off-world adventures.
And that slow reveal of pulling….making it feel plausible.
Certainly amazing but believable that these worlds can exist in the same universe.
That’s what the entire Thor movie is about essentially on one layer.
And how does that help us?
There was a lot of talk about Jon Favreau possibly doingAvengersfor you.
Feige: Not official.
That’s what I was going to ask you.
How is that with you guys?
You’re obviously trying to bring a lot of characters together and tell one really big story.
Do you feel that is almost the most daunting of the challenges thus far?
They’re all daunting.Iron Manwas daunting.
Making it feel like not a robot.
People just think he’s a robot.
How do you counteract that?
It’s one and the same."
I forgot what your question was dude?
The challenge ofThoras you well know is how do you loop in these other worlds?
He’s got a hammer, he’s got blonde hair, he’s got a cape.
How’s that going to work?
So they’re all daunting.
They’re all challenges.
The challenge ofAvengersfrankly is the character interactions is the fun part.
That’s the reason to make the movie.
It’s not so we have more people that can run really fast and hit something.
Who cares about that?
And who is going to give Tony Stark an order at some point in the movie.
And I don’t know how Tony Stark’s going to take that necessarily.
But I’ll be interested to find out.
That’s obviously sincerely 60’s but one of the great elements of the comic books.
Yeah, what you just said actually is the reason I’m incredibly…because you’re right.
The action sequences are just action sequences.
They’re not the reason to do the movie.
It’s the dynamic between the characters.
