Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige Plans Films Through 2021, Past Phase Three and 'Avengers' Plot
Marvel Studios has movies planned all the way through 2021, well past the completion of Phase Three.
"I could arguably say what we're planning for the year 2021," said Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, in an interview with Wired. "Will that happen? I don't know. But what we planned for 2015 in 2006 is happening."
Currently working on Phase Two films, Marvel will conclude that chapter of its existence with Joss Whedon's 2015 The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Now that the studio has managed to create a complex network of interrelated films, it remains to be seen what Marvel will produce after the third Avengers film hits theaters sometime in the distant future.
"Five years ago, looking at our plan, we knew that if Avengers was going to work, the movies had to stand alone," Feige said, according to Wired . "Now we have to prove to the studio that we're more than just these five characters, these five franchises."
While most Phase One and Phase Two films featured the cast of the Avengers, next year's Guardians of the Galaxy starts a departure from the Iron Man/Thor/Captain America story. When Marvel enters Phase Three, Edgar Wright's long-suffering Ant-Man film will see a release in 2015 while three more films (potentiality dealing with Doctor Strange or the Black Panther) are on deck for 2016 and 2017.
While the studio has an amazingly large catalogue of superheroes and super villains to chose from as they develop their future plans, but hopefully the studio will take note of how well their interconnected films have worked and continue to weave large, overarching tales.
