Kevin Feige is the go-to-guy for news about Marvel's film properties, which makes sense, since he is the President of Production at Marvel Studios. Feige recently talked to
Empire Online, where he gave an update on the status of two of Marvel's highly anticipated supreheroic epics -
Thor and
The Avengers.
Thor has been on everyone's lips lately, as rumors about casting have run rampant. Feige wouldn't say anything about who was being looked at for the case, but did give us an idea of when we would hear something. "We will probably be having cast announcements in the next month or so on
Thor," Feige said. "We're looking to cast Loki and Odin soon, and the main female role. And we'll also hopefully have lockdown shortly, gearing towards the beginning of production, which will be early next year. So I think there will be a lot of announcements between now and then."
Feige continued, discussing the work that director Kenneth Branah has been doing on the film. "But Branagh's here, we're prepping, and he's put together some spectacular animatics already for our first action scene. We're digging into the second and third now, and we are just embarking on a rewrite of the draft."
So, that's
Thor, but how is
The Avengers progressing? Feige says that a writer is already on-board, and the script for the film is being looked at. "Zak Penn is already on board
The Avengers and he's spending a lot of his time looking into what we're doing with
Iron Man 2,
Thor and
Captain America, seeing how we're tying it all together. And he's beginning to outline the script now - he'll be doing that over the summer."
Feige finished up with an overview of how the Marvel films are being worked on. "All of the Marvel movies leading up to
The Avengers will be based in our new facility in Manhattan Beach, in LA. There will be location work that will take us out occasionally, but our home base will always be here."
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Loading it more will reduce the depth of the story, and also leave the villians without proper screen time.
Thor and Captain America really need some effort and clever writing
Iron Man 2 won't be a problem as long as the cast is directed well
this is the whole thing EMPIRE Magazine was saying, "Comic book movies are no longer a genre, they're an industry"
there's a long line of them and H-Wood is running out of ideas
the fans also contribute to the future of these films
Turn the damn page HollywoodNOT