I hadn't actually thought about this before reading through the following interview, but Marvel haven't ever done the secret identity story for a movie. Well, I guess you could argue that not everyone knows Bruce Banner is The Hulk, but that's not exactly the same thing -- we haven't had the whole Clark Kent/Superman alter ego dynamic...yet! While speaking to Bleeding Cool Kevin Feige reveals that there are plans to finally tackle it while bringing something new to the age-old formula, but that it might be a few years before we see it hit the screen.
KF: The one we haven’t done in the MCU is the secret identity thing. I thought that had been overplayed for a long time which is why we had Tony Stark out himself at the end of his first movie. We were sort of announcing to the audience that we’re not going to play that game.
BC: There must be a new spin on that, though?
KF: I think there is and I think we will get to it at some point. We have an idea. As a matter of fact, I was just talking about it the other day with one of our filmmakers. The fun thing about the job, though, is that idea I was talking about with a filmmaker might not happen for four or five years because it may or may not be appropriate for a first movie.
BC: How is that fun? That sounds like torture.
KF: It’s fun because we’ve been doing it now for seven years and the things we talked about seven years ago we’re doing now and so I have confidence at least we’ll get to them.
Bleeding Cool reckon he's likely talking about Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil..and looking at the remaining characters in Marvel's stable I'd say that's a pretty good guess. What do you guys think?
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