Captain America: The First Avenger won’t be out in theaters until July 22nd, however, Marvel has jumped the gun and already hired writers to start penning the sequel to the unreleased film.
Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus, who are credited with writing the first film, are currently working on a sequel that will roughly follow this guideline of upcoming Marvel films: Thor, Captain America, The Avengers, Iron Man 3 and then Captain America 2. In between we could see an Ant Man, Hawkeye or Black Widow film as fillers but no confirmation has been given for these films.
Mcfeely and Markus recently did an interview with MTV and have stated the following with the dilemma they have run into with the sequel,
“We’re very early, still. This is the fun part — when we can say, “Hey, we can do this!” and everyone says, “Yeah!” No one says anything negative at this point in the process. We have a million great ideas and haven’t thrown any of them out yet. That being said, it’s sort of a weirdly huge opportunity for storytelling in that you know modern Cap through the Avengers at that point, and just by the nature of what we were talking about before, there’s going to be a lot of his World War II history we haven’t shown. We’re going to have two entire timelines to play with“.
also Mcfeely said,
“I wonder if the reaction to [“The First Avenger”] will steer us in some way. First, if it does well… Then, if it does well and people embrace the World War II aspect of it, maybe there’s pressure to return there in a large way. But if they don’t embrace that aspect and just love Chris Evans as Steve, maybe there’s less pressure to do that — you can just keep him in the Avengers universe”.
This is a huge dilemma and one that could reshape the Captain American franchise and possible the Avengers sequel.
I don’t know how an audience will feel with seeing a modern day Cap then when the sequel comes out he will be back in WW2, then having to go back to a modern day Cap with Avengers 2.
Personally, the only thing I can possibly see working for the franchise would be if they can somehow incorporate both past and present Cap into a film. Maybe instead of doing a whole film in WW2 again, have flashback scenes showing a situation he was in and it somehow correlating with the modern day situation.
Would you rather see a WW2 Cap or a modern day Cap or both? Leave your comments below!
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