“Breaking: Marking a major twist to the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s “Phase Three,” Variety is reporting that Robert Downey Jr. is close to joining the cast of Captain America 3 as Tony Stark and that the film will launch elements of the hit comic book crossover event, “Civil War” in the MCU!
The news comes on the heels of an announcement from Marvel this morning that a new “Civil War” comic book is on the way next summer.
Just last week, Downey hinted that something big was on the way, although it was briefly believed that he was referring to a fourth Iron Man film. Now, it seems quite likely that Marvel Studios has even bigger plans for Iron Man!
Anthony and Joe Russo, the sibling director pair behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier, are directing the May 6, 2016 film, which features a screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and, of course, the return of Chris Evans as the star-spangled superhero.”
Looks like the source material still has a few golden eggs to give. Since print is dead (still kicking around a little, but yeah, the vultures are circling), these stories will have to be told on the big screen- which is good given the current state of (especially Marvel) comics and their race and gender switching to generate interest.
Earlier this week, Marvel made an announcement teasing Civil War. We take it to mean that Marvel is mining only several years old stories due to a lack of anything more interesting than a female Thor.
If you take a look at the pic below, you might be inclined to think Iron Man and Captain America are pulling on Spider-Man because of the rumor that Spidey could join the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
We think they’re pulling on the success of Civil War to keep readers interested in a dying medium.
Disagree? Of course not, we’re right!
Source: SuperHeroHype
