Earlier today, Marvel Studios announced details of its Phase Three line-up during a press event at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles, revealing that the previously announced Ant-Man, Captain America 3 (a.k.a. Captain America: Civil War), Doctor Strange and Guardians of the Galaxy 2 will be joined by Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Inhumans and Avengers: Infinity War – Part 1 and Part 2. During the event, Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige offered up a few words about the newly-announced projects…
On Doctor Strange: “It takes a while to work on these movies before they’re ready to come to you in theaters. Doctor Stephen Strange, brilliant neurosurgeon, bit of an arrogant fellow who gets in a car accident and ruins what he thinks are the tools of his trade: his hands. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of the supernatural, that involves everything from quantum mechanics to string theory. The idea of this film is to open up a whole new corner of the cinematic universe. We want to enter, through Strange, the world of parallel dimensions.”
On Thor: Ragnarok: “This is a very important movie for us in Phase 3. We plan on taking Thor to another level. It picks up where we leave Thor in Avengers: Age of Ultron and impacts everything that comes after.”
On Black Panther: “Black Panther and all of Wakanda is one of the most interesting characters in Marvel history. “omething I already showed you today contains an Easter egg that leads directly into Black Panther. He’s a bit of a prince, he may even become a bit of a king, but it’s all about how this isolationist country meets the world. Maybe it goes well, maybe it doesn’t.”
On Captain Marvel: “This Captain Marvel’s name is Carol Danvers. This film has been in the works almost as long as Doctor Strange or Guardians of the Galaxy before it came out, and one of the key things was figuring out what we wanted to do with it. Her adventures are very earthbound, but her powers are based in the cosmic realm.”
On Inhumans: “[This] will introduce dozens of characters into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We really do believe the Inhumans can be a franchise or a series of franchise unto themselves. They have dozens of powers and an amazing social structure. With our 20th movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we wanted to continue to refine what that universe is about.”
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Originally published October 28, 2014. Updated July 3, 2023.
