More From Drew Pearce On Why THE AVENGERS Put THE RUNAWAYS On Hold
Iron Man 3 and Godzilla screenwriter Drew Pearce shares his thoughts on how The Avengers resulted in The Runaways being put to one side, but speculates that it could be part of "Phase 3". Shane Black however thinks other wise! Hit the jump to check it out.
"We were really close to being made, and then this movie started to happen called The Avengers," screenwriter Drew Pearce explained in a Q&A podcast with Jeff Goldsmith (via The Hollywood Reporter) when asked why we've heard nothing about The Runaways movie recently. "Oddly, it pulled focus from the unheard-of brand Runaways, and it really did kind of consume the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's there, maybe it'll be a Phase Three movie, I really hope so, I'm really proud of it and I think it'll be a brilliant film, but I think it all depends what Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel, what his master plan is." Pearce's Iron Man 3 screenplay was universally praised, while he has since been hired to work on the fifth Mission Impossible movie. It's not hard to believe that his take on the Brian K. Vaughan created characters would have been something very special indeed! Shane Black said that it's, "one of the better screenplays that's sitting on a shelf somewhere," but warned that it probably WON'T be in "Phase 3". "They make two [movies] a year, but that's still at least three years down the line [until they run out of films already in progress]." What do you guys think? Sound off below!
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