Out making press rounds for the film, Marvel suit Kevin Feige answered some spoiler-related questions and his answers are now being published following the release of the film in North America.
MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD - DO NOT READ FURTHER UNLESS YOU HAVE SEEN "CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER"
Mentioning Stephen Strange (aka Doctor Strange) as a target of Project Insight. Asked about the reference, Feige tells Crave Online:
"Well, 'we' know what it means and where we want to head with it, but we were comfortable with keeping it in there and leaving it in there because there are a few different ways to interpret it. The whole thing, what Agent Sitwell's (Maximiliano Hernández) saying is, this algorithm is going to predict if you're going to become a problem for Hydra or not. So you don't have to just be Tony Stark, actively plotting to save the world. You could be a kid whose SAT scores and whose essays have indicated that you're going to be a problem one day. So is Stephen Strange the Sorcerer Supreme? Probably not at that point. Is he an unbelievably talented neurosurgeon who's opinionated and kind of arrogant? Probably. That might put him on the list."
The question of where Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) is? Since a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent asks in the film. We'll get the answer to that in Joss Whedon's superhero team up sequel "The Avengers: Age of Ultron" :
"We will discover, later, the answers to that question. But it really came down to how many players can you have on the field at this time? We really wanted to bring in Falcon (Anthony Mackie), we really wanted to team [Captain America] up with Black Widow, (Scarlett Johansson) we really wanted Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) to have more of a part than he's ever had in any of the other movies before. We wanted, ever so briefly, to introduce Sharon Carter. (Revenge star Emily VanCamp) And we had a fun place for Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) to be involved. So we didn't want to just have, 'Hey, I'm Hawkeye! Hey, I'm Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr,)!' We want to avoid the brief cameos of the week. Not every character from every movie is going to be in Avengers: Age of Ultron, for sure. But Joss is excited and, for the characters you haven't seen since the first Avengers - like Hawkeye, like (Mark Ruffalo's Hulk)- there's a reason for that, and that gets showcased quite prominently in Avengers: Age of Ultron."
Then of course, there's the biggest change of the entire film - the dismantling of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the wake of its infiltration by H.Y.D.R.A. - which will have a major impact:
"One of the first people I ever pitched that idea to was Chris Evans, on the set, on the very last day of production of Avengers 1... The TV show [Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D] didn't exist when we were starting this. But they were well aware of what was happening, because I said 'This is what we're doing.' The other thing that we thought would be fun was using this to change the dynamic for The Avengers, so that the safety net - if you can call it that - of a giant government organization with massive resources, of which they were just sort of the front, or the A-Team at the head of that organization... take all that away. So when they come together in the next movie it's just them."
Finally the end credits scene where its suggested Baron von Strucker (Thomas Kretschmann) has been using Loki's (Tom Hiddleston) scepter for experiments that have killed all but a pair of twins Wanda Maximoff, a.k.a. Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and her twin brother Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) who survived and scored their super powers from it in the process. It has been speculated that the stone in the scepter is actually one of the infamous Infinity Gems.
Feige says "Well, it's certainly pure speculation at this point. I'm not even sure if we even recognize Loki's scepter [as an Infinity Gem], but that's a big hint as to what will be causing them trouble in the next movie."
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