Marvel's Kevin Feige Says Avengers, Spider-Man, X-Men Crossover Movie Is Possible [VIDEO]
The Avengers brought together the four main Marvel movie franchises in Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and the Hulk. Fox will unite two generations of mutants in next year's X-Men: Days of Future Past. And Sony has rebooted the web slinger with The Amazing Spider-Man series. With all these players, fans have wondered if some or all of them could come together for the mother of all superhero movies. And according to Marvel Studios President of Production Kevin Feige, it's possible.
Feige answered several fan questions in an interview with IGN to promote Thor: The Dark World. A reader named Sam Wilson asked: "Will a deal ever happen between the relevant studios that will allow the likes of Spider-Man, the X-Men and the Avengers on-screen together?" Feige gives his answer at the 4:07 mark of the following video:
Feige said he is pleased with the current amount of characters to which Marvel Studios currently has at its disposal and said that a mega-crossover is not likely to happen anytime soon, but added the three key words "never say never."
In addition, Feige remarked in an interview with The Huffington Post that Thanos, who appeared in the post-credits sequence of The Avengers, is like the end boss of a video game:
"So, I have a theory. Is the reason Thanos isn't the villain in the second Avengers movie is because he's kind of the end boss in a video game? As in, where would you go after him?
That's...we never thought of it exactly like that, but I'd say that's a fair analogy, yes. It's also, you look at some classic story lines in the comics and they tease out characters like that, big bads like that, for sometimes years. I think Walter Simonson was teasing Surtur for years before he popped up. It's fun to have the luxury to build somebody up like that."
This seems to track with the after-credits sequence in Thor: The Dark World, which mentions the Infinity Gauntlet for the first time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.