Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige (pictured) offered up a status report on the company's film plans to Sci-Fi Wire...*"The First Avenger: Captain America" will be a period piece set during World War II .
Feige says the film, scheduled for release in May 6th 2011, will act as the set up for the eventual "The Avengers " movie to be released six weeks later on July 1st.
He also dismissed all of the recent chatter that Matthew McConaughey was up for the role...but he did confirm that one of the objects glimpsed in Tony Stark's lab as seen in "Iron Man is indeed part of the character's shield. (Thank goodness!! Cap is not a pretty boy surfer dude!)
*"Iron Man 2" is still on schedule for April 30th 2010, with talks underway for director Jon Favreau to return.
*"Thor " is scheduled for July 4th 2010 with Mark Protosevich currently toiling away on the script.
A new director will be announced later this Summer following the recent exit of Matthew Vaughn a few weeks ago-The Hollywood Reporter said that Vaughn's "holding deal" on the film had expired...There may be more to the story: Vaughn says he didn't want a big name for the lead role...(With him gone Is the studio looking to cast none other than Brad Pitt in the role?)
Pitt could make it work and would certainly put butts in the seats to see a film about a lesser known comic book character.
Feige promises that much of the action for Thor will be set in the mythical Norse realm of the gods - Asgard....
*Meantime-Lost writer/producer and creator of the popular comic book series "Y: The Last Man" (which itself is being made into a film for 2009), Brian K. Vaughan will pen a big screen adaptation of his other comic "Runaways" for the studio says The Hollywood Reporter.
It's very cool that Vaughn will be adapting his own material...
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