By Chris Evangelista/April 23, 2018 2:00 pm EST
This sounds like Phase 5 is the earliest we can expect the Fox-owned characters popping up in the MCU. You’ve waited this long, you can wait a little longer, right? And while we’ll have to wait for characters like the X-Men to arrive in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, that doesn’t mean Kevin Feige doesn’t have a general idea about how it might eventually happen.
“No, because any of that deal would take a while to get going and years from whenever and if ever it happens. So, certainly it won’t impact the five movies we’ve announced, and it probably wouldn’t impact anything for a handful of years after that. Because really, we’re not thinking about that. We’re thinking of delivering on what we promised. Any movie, especially for any characters we don’t have the rights to yet until someone tells us we do, would be even further after that.”
Speaking with ComingSoon, Feige once again confirmed it will be a while before official plans get underway. At the same time, Feige also says that the Thor movies could be a blueprint for how to bring the X-Men into the MCU:
“We’re not working on it in any way, shape or form. We’ve got five films on the docket we’ve already announced that are taking a big percent of our time. But I will say to your very good question that if you look back to Phase 1 and after “Iron Man” was released and we announced our upcoming films, one of which was “Thor,” people said, “How in the WORLD can you bring in a Norse god who flies with a hammer into the world you’ve established of Tony Stark and Stark Industries?” That was sort of the reason we made the “Thor” film the way we did, was to ease character into a world together, even though they might not understand each other and might have trouble getting along at first, that’s the fun of it. But tonally there’s always a way, and as you said the comics have been navigating it quite well for half a century.”
“It is [a complicated situation]. I think there’s a way to probably figure it out but it does have — it’s not as a clean or clear as the majority of the other characters.”
