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By now you know the drill. As a new Marvel movie is released, Kevin Feige gives us news on what’s coming up next. The biggest Marvel film on the horizon is Avengers: Age of Ultron, written and directed by Joss Whedon. So during the press junket for Captain America: The Winter Soldier, out April 4, questions about all kinds of thing in regards to the sequel were posed to Feige. Below you can read about the following:

• Hawkeye’s Phase Two whereabouts will be covered.
• Hulk and Hawkeye will have a bigger role.
• Agent Coulson could potentially appear.
• Whedon will not rewrite the script because of Scarlett Johansson’s pregnancy.
• Anthony Mackie’s Falcon won’t appear.
• Feige comments on Paul Bettany as Vision.

 

First up, in my interview with Kevin Feige we talked about a huge scope of topics, many of which are major spoilers for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. We’ll run those closer to release, but once you see the film you’ll probably be asking, “Where’s Hawkeye?” Considering it deals heavily with S.H.I.E.L.D, who previously employed Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), his inclusion seems logical. Feige told me it was a conscious decision to not overload this film but not only will Renner have a bigger role in Avengers: Age of Ultron, his whereabouts during Phase Two, will be revealed.

Feige added to that statement speaking to JoBlo, reiterating what we’d all heard and assumed for a long time, the two members of the Avengers who didn’t get their own Phase Two movies will have considerably bigger roles in Avengers: Age of Ultron:

Part of the fun of AGE OF ULTRON was saying, you’ve seen another IRON MAN adventure before, you see another THOR adventure and another CAP adventure, but we haven’t seen the Green Goliath again. So that was important in the characters you haven’t seen – Hulk being one of them and Hawkeye being one of them – ULTRON will make up for it. They have very big parts in AGE OF ULTRON.

It’s difficult to really explain the importance of this next question without spoiling Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but Movies.com asked Kevin Feige the question if Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) could make the transition back from TV to film in Age of Ultron:

That is a good question that I probably shouldn’t answer for any number of reasons.

One of the biggest storylines in Avengers: Age of Ultron is now taking place off the screen. Star Scarlett Johansson was recently revealed to be pregnant and many assumed that might influence her ability to shoot her scenes. It will but Kevin Feige told Collider Joss Whedon won’t be rewriting the script:

Well my first reaction was I was very happy for her and very excited for her, and my second reaction was we’ve gotta move some pieces on the chess board around schedule-wise. But we didn’t change the script at all, which is sort of the most important things for us in terms of the storyline. I think the goal is for us to sit here talking about the fact that you would never know that Black Widow was pregnant during the filming of the movie when you see the final version of Avengers 2.

That quote is a little odd when you juxtapose it with this one from Captain America star Anthony Mackie. MovieWeb said they’d love to see him appear in Avengers: Age of Ultron, and he told the following story:

(Laughs) I wish. Everybody says that but Kevin Feige. Chris [Evans] is a good friend of mine. The movie starts in three weeks. I know he’s read the script. He’s like, ‘Yo, man, I read the Avengers script. It’s good.’ I was like, ‘Really?’ He said, ‘Yeah, Joss (Whedon) is doing rewrites, but it’s good. I was like, ‘Great! So… am I in it?’ And he says, ‘I’ve got to go. I’ll be back.’ What do you mean? Why can’t you just tell me if I’m in the movie? No one will tell me, not one person, so I gave up on it.

So Falcon won’t be in the movie, but Whedon is doing rewrites? Someone is misinformed here. But I tend to believe the rewriters are probably just natural.

Finally, back to my own interview with Feige, I ended by asking him if he could confirm the news Paul Bettany was playing Vision in Avengers: Age of Ultron.

I don’t think we’ve officially said anything. But other people said things.

Sounds pretty official to me.

Avengers: Age of Ultron opens May 1, 2015. Filming is now underway.

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The answer to the question of what Marvel film would dare challenge Batman vs. Superman has been revealed: It’ll be Captain America 3, directed by the Russo Brothers.

The Hollywood Reporter broke the news of the release date.

Wednesday, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige told /Film, despite DC’s Batman vs. Superman scheduling itself on the same date Marvel had already picked in May 2016, Marvel would not move. At the time, Feige wouldn’t say what film that would be but with buzz on Captain America: The Winter Solider so solid, it tracking for a near $100 million opening weekend and Joe and Anthony Russo already confirmed to direct, Captain America 3 is the furthest along of the rumored 2016 Marvel movies. It taking that spot make senses.

Captain America 3 will be the first of two Marvel films released in 2016. And, if it holds, odds are Doctor Strange would be the second one. A release later on July 8, 2016 would put less pressure on the new franchise (a strategy similar to Guardians of the Galaxy this year and Ant-Man next year) plus give more time to develop the magical world of the character on the page and screen.

Now eyes turn to Warner Bros. where Hey U Guys reports there are already rumblings of the Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel sequel potentially moving up one week into April. Reportedly, a Brazilian website says Batman vs. Superman will be released on April 28 in that country and the U.S. release date could move too. That is not confirmed, but it’s a rumor and an interesting one at that. If Captain America 3 and Batman vs. Superman release on the same date, they would potentially suffer on their bottom line. Of note though, big blockbusters opening a week early in foreign countries is a pretty standard practice.

Let’s be honest here, one of the films is going to move, it’s just a matter of which one.

Do you think a Captain America 3 release could hold up against Batman vs. Superman? Who is going to budge first in this epic game of box-office chicken?

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Last month, Jai Courtney booked the role of Kyle Reese in Terminator: Genesis to complete the central trio of returning characters. (Or quartet, if you count Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s Terminator.) Now it’s moving on to some other, less prominent but still crucial, roles — starting with an boozed-up detective to be played by J.K. Simmons.

Learn more about his character, and get some details on how he’ll fit into this complicated time-jumping narrative, after the jump.

According to THR, Simmons is currently in talks to join the Alan Taylor-directed franchise reboot. Already cast are Courtney and Schwarzenegger, as mentioned above, plus Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor and Jason Clarke (no relation) as John Connor (yes relation).

Written by Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier, Terminator: Genesis weaves together various threads from earlier installments of the series. A rumored plot description surfaced earlier this month, but all we know for certain is that it involves time travel. Which is how 26-year-old Emilia Clarke is able to play the mother of 44-year-old Jason Clarke.

According to the trade’s sources, Simmons will play “a weary and alcoholic detective who has followed a bizarre case involving Sarah Connor and robots for more than three decades (since 1984, which, not coincidentally, is the year the original movie, directed by James Cameron, was released).”

Hmm… could that tie into the planned TV show somehow? What we’ve heard about that project is that it’ll hinge on “a critical moment” from the first Terminator, but then take the plot “in a completely different direction.”

Whatever Simmons’ character does or doesn’t have to do with the TV series, it’ll just be nice to see this versatile actor in the upcoming movie. Over the decades, Simmons has built up the kind of career where you never know just where he’ll turn up next.

He recently got some Sundance love for the indie drama Whiplash, and is currently leading the NBC sitcom Growing Up Fisher. He’s no stranger to big-budget franchises, either, having played J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy.

Terminator: Genesis is scheduled to start shooting this spring in New Orleans and other locations. It opens July 1, 2015.

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At this point, there’s every reason to expect that an actor with a major Marvel movie role will have signed a six-film deal. So this week’s revelation from Sebastian Stan of a nine-picture deal isn’t a huge surprise, despite the fact that it tops even Samuel L. Jackson’s epic deal. (As far as we know. Other cast members might have similar contracts.) But it does tell us a bit about what to expect from his character. Stan played Bucky Barnes in Captain America: The First Avenger, and has a significant role in sequel The Winter Soldier.

Since The Winter Soldier doesn’t open for a couple more weeks we won’t reveal any specifics of Stan’s potential future role with Marvel, but after the break we’ll indulge in a bit of speculation.

There’s a lot in The Winter Soldier that suggests where the Marvel Cinematic Universe is going to go in the next few movies. None of that will be discussed here. Not for nothing has Kevin Feige been saying that this movie plots out the future of the MCU, but we’ll leave that talk for after it opens.

But Stan told Newsarama “I think I actually have nine” when asked how many films he could be in with Marvel according to the current plan. We do know that Chris Evans only has a six-picture deal, and factoring in the second Avengers movie he’s more than half way done with that. He doesn’t seem like a guy who will want to play Captain America forever, and that six-picture deal reflects that.

Luckily, the original Winter Soldier comic storyline written by Ed Brubaker, and stories that follow, features one obvious solution. Bucky eventually takes on the mantle of Captain America himself. So that’s an obvious solution to the notion that Chris Evans might want to move on. Whether or not Stan can mold himself into the same sort of charismatic leading man Evans has become is another question. He’s got the potential, and The Winter Soldier sees Marvel exploring only one aspect of his capabilities.

Of course, having the deal doesn’t mean Marvel will exercise all the options. We’ve also heard that the direction of Cap 3 will depend in part on how people respond to this movie. A lot of that probably has to do with audience response to Sebastian Stan. If fans really like him in this movie, there’s a good chance we’ll be seeing much more of him in future Marvel phases.

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