Kevin Feige Confirms That The MCU Will Reference DAREDEVIL & Other Marvel TV Shows
We've had quite a few Marvel Cinematic Universe references in Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Daredevil, but as of yet no Marvel movie has returned the favor. Well, Kevin Feige thinks it's only a matter of time before that happens, and hopes to see some character crossovers, too...
If you're a Marvel TV fan you'll have picked up several nods to the major events in the likes of The Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier in Daredevil and Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., and that will no doubt continue as Netflix gears up to unleash Jessica Jones and the rest of its small screen output in the buildup to The Defenders - but will we ever see the reverse happen?
During a Q&A promoting the home video release of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said that was "inevitable," but it was all a matter of getting the schedules in line.
"I think that's inevitable at some point as we're plotting the movies going forward and they're doing the shows. It's easier for them. They're more nimble and faster and produce things quicker than we do, which is one of the main reasons you see the repercussions of Winter Soldier and Age of Ultron in the show. Going forward and certainly as they begin to do more shows and cast them with such great actors as they have -- particularly Daredevil -- that that may occur. A lot of it is by the time we start doing a movie, they'd be midway through a season; by the time it comes out they'd be done with the second, starting the third season. Finding timing on that is not always easy."
Several characters from the MCU have made appearances on Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. - such as Nick Fury and Lady Sif - but thus far we've yet to see any significant TV heroes or villains show up on the big screen. Most fans assume that's only a matter of time of course, but nothing is set in stone.
Still, Feige definitely seems to like the idea, and when one reporter used the example of Vincent D'Onforio's Kingpin possibly going up against the Webhead in a solo Spider-Man flick, he replied: "I don't know, probably. That would probably be the cool thing to do. That particular scenario has not come up yet."
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