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Kevin Feige: Marvel movies will eventually reference the shows

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"I think that's inevitable at some point as we're plotting the movies going forward and they're doing the shows," he explained during the Age of Ultron event at the Hero Complex Gallery in Los Angeles on September 29th.
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"Going forward and certainly as they begin to do more shows and cast them with such great actors as they have -- particularly Daredevil -- that that may occur. A lot of it is by the time we start doing a movie, they'd be midway through a season; by the time it comes out they'd be done with the second, starting the third season. Finding timing on that is not always easy."
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As for whether the films will feature any of the TV shows' characters if they're used on the big screen -- a reporter asked if, for example, a Spider-Man movie featuring Kingpin would use Vincent D'Onforio -- Feige said, "I don't know, probably. That would probably be the cool thing to do. That particular scenario has not come up yet."
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I like that he singles out Daredevil (Presumably Charlie Cox/Vincent D'Onforio and others). Would love to see any of those characters end up on the big screen
 
Escape Goat said:
Daredevil is pretty underpowered in the MCU. Hawkguy could take him out.
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Hawkguy would get his ass kicked by DD. Natasha also would not stand a chance.




Rosario Dawson is probably high up in Feiges list. She is not only a great actress but hir underground clinic would make sense for Spidey.
 
I hope this is more than just words. I'd hate to see the characters in the show go unutilized in the movies. My expectation has been that, if they ever do bring show characters into the movies, it will just be so they have more cannon fodder for Thanos to destroy in the first act.
 
WonkersTHEWatilla said:
Well duh. There's gonna be a movie about Inhumans.
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I doubt the events of AoS would get any more than a passing mention. At this point, anyways. That movie isn't coming out for what, another 3-4 years? So there's time. THe main movie will probably just be the classic "Maximus v Royal Family" and have a giant CG fight sequence involving the Alpha Primitives, because the mainstream isn't prepared for political chess.
 
neoanarch said:
Hawkguy would get his ass kicked by DD. Natasha also would not stand a chance.




Rosario Dawson is probably high up in Feiges list. She is not only a great actress but hir underground clinic would make sense for Spidey.
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How would Grant Ward or Melinda May do against Hawkguy or Natasha? Natasha's probably the best of these four, right?
 
Infinity War & Inhumans seem to be the two best movies for such a crossover, though I expect Inhumans to be a crossover in concept (the idea that the Inhumans are spreading everywhere thanks to the Fish Oil pills) than with actual characters. Infinity War is basically everyone but the kitchen sink, so I expect Quake, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Punisher, Elektra, Misty Knight, the return of Coulson, etc. to be in the movie. I could also see Kingpin being involved in the Spider-Man movies.

neoanarch said:
Rosario Dawson is probably high up in Feiges list. She is not only a great actress but hir underground clinic would make sense for Spidey.
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I'm surprised that I never thought of this until now.
 
Coffee Dog said:
Inhumans makes this obvious. It won't be anything significant, though. That would be pretty dumb of them.
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What do you mean significant? They've already done the Inhumane origin thoroughly. They aren't going to change it for the movies. SHIELS already influences the movies in subtle ways. Every single franchise.
 
Not enough people care about AoS for the Inhumans movie to give it more than a cursory mention, don't kid yourselves. Show will quite possibly be dead by the time the movie even plays.

Daredevil with Spidey would be cool, but I think at the moment he's probably more up for a cameo/small role in Avengers 3. The MCU connection does nothing for that show currently.

TV in general works a lot faster than movies and it's hard to keep pace. That's why I love that Agent Carter is set years in the past and can be as referential as it wants or completely ignore the MCU and do whatever.
 
I remember this being posted in another thread, but another problem with referencing the shows in the movies is that the shows don't play in as many countries as the movies will be released in. So you can't have important things tie into the shows because once you get international you start having a chance that people haven't seen the show not because they don't want to, but because it's not available there.
 
ZeroX03 said:
Not enough people care about AoS for the Inhumans movie to give it more than a cursory mention, don't kid yourselves. Show will quite possibly be dead by the time the movie even plays.

Daredevil with Spidey would be cool, but I think at the moment he's probably hoping more up for a cameo/small role in Avengers 3. The MCU connection does nothing for that show currently.

TV in general works a lot faster than movies and it's hard to keep pace. That's why I love that Agent Carter is set years in the past and can be as referential as it wants or completely ignore the MCU and do whatever.
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The concepts surrounding the Inhumans outside of Attilan will at least be referenced (seeing as SHIELD is heavily establishing it).

hodayathink said:
I remember this being posted in another thread, but another problem with referencing the shows in the movies is that the shows don't play in as many countries as the movies will be released in. So you can't have important things tie into the shows because once you get international you start having a chance that people haven't seen the show not because they don't want to, but because it's not available there.
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What about Netflix?
 
Neoxon said:
The concepts surrounding the Inhumans outside of Attilan will at least be referenced (seeing as SHIELD is heavily establishing it).


What about Netflix?
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Even Netflix isn't available in all the countries that a Marvel movie will get released in.

Edit: As a very simple example, is Netflix available in China?
 
peanutbutterlatte said:
Myself and many would argue Daredevil is the only one with any real merit.
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As far as Daredevil is concerned, I feel like Spider-Man will be the big-screen gateway into the street-level parts of the MCU. So I feel like Daredevil crossovers would make more sense with Spidey's movies.

hodayathink said:
Even Netflix isn't available in all the countries that a Marvel movie will get released in.
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Then that could be a problem.
 
peanutbutterlatte said:
Myself and many would argue Daredevil is the only one with any real merit.
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SHIELD is pretty great, and Carter was totally alright.

Though I don't expect any characters outside of the Netflix shows to make an appearance in the movies. The ABC shows aren't all that popular to mainstream viewers. They're mostly just popular to neeeeeeeeeeerds.
 
Isn't Inhumans 2019? I love Agents of SHIELD but I hope to god it's not still going by then. Very few shows can carry their own weight past 4-5 seasons.

Still, I suppose it's possible they make reference to the events from the show even if it's not currently airing
 
Neoxon said:
The concepts surrounding the Inhumans outside of Attilan will at least be referenced (seeing as SHIELD is heavily establishing it).
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It'll get a few lines of reference and that'll be it.

Keep in mind you're talking about a movie four years away. Who knows where the show will be at, if even still alive? With a much smaller viewership than the movies it's not something they'll put huge stock in. Throwaway references are about the best you can hope for.

Neoxon said:
What about Netflix?
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Netflix isn't global yet, and show rights aren't the same in all territories. I think Daredevil was a Netflix title in all regions, but even some Netflix shows have rights sold to broadcasters or other streaming services or whatever. Agent Carter was a pretty bad one with availability IIRC.
 
peanutbutterlatte said:
Myself and many would argue Daredevil is the only one with any real merit.
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I'll agree that Agents of SHIELD's heavily mixed quality makes it a tough watch week-to-week. But Agent Carter was genuinely delightful. It carried on the retro-aesthetic of CA:TFA really well, and kept you guessing on Stark's allegiences. Plus with the second season confirmed (I think?) - it'll actually be exploring
Hydra's corruption of SHIELD
, which is going to be a great arc.
 
bananafactory said:
Isn't Inhumans 2019? I love Agents of SHIELD but I hope to god it's not still going by then. Very few shows can carry their own weight past 4-5 seasons.

Still, I suppose it's possible they make reference to the events from the show even if it's not currently airing
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#sixseasonsandamovie
 
Spikematic said:
I'm pretty sure myself and many would vehemently disagree with this. Both AoS (from the last episodes of Season 1 and Season 2) and Agent Carter are fantastic.
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I feel people are only impressed with AOS now because its risen above the mediocrity of the first half of Season 1, which was simply painful to watch.
 
Crud said:
What's the point when its never going to make the movies any better?
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Because important things happen in the shows that will inevitably also affect the movies, and sooner or later they won't have a choice but to reference them. I think that's what Feige is saying.
 
I mean, aren't the movies going to eventually have to deal with
Inhumans popping up everywhere
to some degree? They really plan on leaving that plot point to just Agents of Shield?
 
That Dude John said:
I mean, aren't the movies going to eventually have to deal with
Inhumans popping up everywhere
to some degree? They really plan on leaving that plot point to just Agents of Shield?
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I feel like the fact will at least have a passing reference in Civil War as one of the reasons behind the Accords.
 
peanutbutterlatte said:
I mean if they're not going to put DD in Civil War they can at least have a Civil War arc in Series 2.
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But DD never had anything to do with Civil War. Even in the comics, he used a stand-in because he was out of the country at the time on a personal mission in the Daredevil comics. There is no "Civil War arc". :P

S2 of Daredevil is going to be Elektra and Punisher anyway, which is far more interesting. Let the movies do what the movies do best, and let the various series benefit from long form stories.
 
Neoxon said:
But the shows are actually good. SHIELD got its shit together from Season 2 onwards, Agent Carter was solid, & Daredevil hit the ground running.
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I'll give you Daredevil. It's like comic book Daredevil, in it's own little corner of the world doing it's own thing. AoS, much like a lot of Avengers spinoff books that have spawned since Bendis made them big over the last decade, is always just caught between events
 
GamerJM said:
Guess I'm going to need to watch the shows then.
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Even if they reference the shows I doubt they'd be dumb enough to make any significant plot point hinge on the hope you watched an episode of some television show. If it's really that important the necessary exposition will be written into the film to explain it.
 
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