Marvel president says comic book superhero movies will be a ‘never-ending continuum’

Justice League vs The Avengers: Please Make It Stop

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First we had all the standalone superhero movies, now we’re getting towards all the team-up ones, so what comes after? A break from it all, I very much hoped (as I’m sure did a lot of people who are actually fans of them but a bit exhausted).

But no, it seems the Marvel Cinematic Universe will go on until the Sun eventually envelopes Earth and putting an A-lister in front of a green screen is no longer possible.

“I think you look at comics as a guide,” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige told EW. “Although certain titles may get relaunched or rebooted, the narrative exists on a never-ending continuum.”

He elaborated that the current phase of movies, Civil War et al, is just the beginning of a new chapter (which I guess it has to be, or the studio will have no films to make).

“I think there will be a finality to moments of Phase Three, as well as new beginnings that will mark a different, a very different, a distinctively different chapter in what will someday be a complete first saga made up of three phases,” he said.

So what will the next batch of superhero movies (I’m weeping as I write this) be like ? “Deconstructed,” thinks Civil War co-director Joe Russo.

“You build things up and people enjoy the experiences you’ve built up. But then you kind of reach an apex or you reach a climax, a moment where you go, ‘This structure is really going to start to be repetitious if we do this again, so what do we do now?’" he said. "So now, you deconstruct it. We’re in the deconstruction phase with Civil War and leading into Infinity War, which are the culmination films.”

Twelve movies based on Marvel Comics are currently in the pipeline.