Marvel TV president says Daredevil and Agents of Shield characters will likely never appear in the films
'How am I going to get Mike [Colter] in a movie? I need Mike to be in a television show'
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Your support makes all the difference.In Hollywood, Cinematic Universes are all the rage right now. From Marvel and DC to King Arthur and King Kong/Godzilla, hundreds of semi-sequels/tie-ins are being created.
Marvel Studios sparked off the trend back in 2008 with the release of Iron Man, culminating in the Avengers in 2012, seeing Iron Man team up with fellow superheroes Thor, Captain America, The Hulk and Black Widow.
From that point on, it wasn’t only the films that were linked to Marvel’s Cinematic Universe; TV shows sprang out, including Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D and Netflix’s Daredevil.
The phrase #ItsAllConnected was consistently used by the studio to stress how each property was set in the same fictional universe, just like the comic books.
However, as noted by many viewers, the TV shows have become less indebted to the films, with sparring references. The films have yet to reference the shows in any significant way.
So, how connected are Marvel’s properties really? Marvel TV president Jeph Loeb gave a revealing answer to /Film, basically saying that, practically, they can’t all be connected.
“I can tell you that part of the challenge of doing this sort of thing is that the movies are planned out years in advance of what it is that we are doing. Television moves at an incredible speed. The other part of the problem is that when you stop and think about it, if I’m shooting a television series and that’s going to go on over a six-month or eight-month period, how am I going to get Mike [Colter] to be able to go be in a movie? I need Mike to be in a television show.”
Loeb went on to say that a crossover is still a “possibility” but having characters appear across media wasn’t the point in it all being connected: “It’s connected in the way that the shows come from the same place, that they are real, that they are grounded.”
Meanwhile, Marvel has changed the name of the two upcoming Avengers films, directors the Russo brothers citing the fact the films are two self-contained entities as the reason.
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