Kevin Feige talks about Captain America 3 and Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice's shared release date; also reflects on The Dark Knight.
San Diego Comic-Con is just around the corner, but some are already looking beyond to 2016, and the ultimate supposed movie showdown between Warner Brothers’ Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and Captain America 3. One person who at least publicly doesn’t seem to be worrying too much about it at the moment is Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios. Talking to Empire, Feige reiterated their intention of releasing the third Captain America movie on the weekend of May 6, 2016.
“We are doing what we’ve always done, which is sticking to our plan and sticking to our vision for the movies going forward, and we have a very large vision that we’re working on for Cap 3 and for all the “threes” movies,” Feige said. “And just because another movie plops down onto one of ours doesn’t mean we are going to alter that. Maybe we should, but we’re not going to.”
Feige shared these thoughts when posited the question if he was concerned about WB finally “getting their act together” with Batman v. Superman. And for his part, Feige had some kind words to share about the Distinguished Competition and Christopher Nolan’s extraordinary cinematic vision, in particular.
Feige said, “I don’t think it is quite fair to say DC is finally getting their act together. The Dark Knight movies were rather successful and genre-defining. They altered the genre in big ways. So, I think there has always been competition that way. I mean Iron Man was the number one movie of 2008 until The Dark Knight came along, and I loved it, frankly. I love that the number one and number two movies of that year, and it has happened a number of times since then, being comic book movies, even if it wasn’t one we made. Here we are now, 14 years since the first Marvel movie I worked on. At that point, it had been eight years, and for about those eight years people had been asking, ‘How much longer is this gonna’ last? When are people gonna’ get tired of these movies?’ And my answer always was, “People only get tired if a whole slew of terrible ones come out.” And it was our job to make sure that doesn’t happen. If there are other people out there interested in that not happening as well, I’m all for it!”
At least for the moment, Captain America 3 and Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice are both due out on May 6, 2016.
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