Everyday I’m reminded that it’s increasingly popular to begin scripting a sequel before the original movie is released. Maybe it’s cheaper that way? Either way the guys behind the Captain America movie are brainstorming the massive potential involved in Captain America sequels and them either being contemporary or period pieces.
Source: Dark Horizons
We’re very early, still. This is the fun part — when we can say, “Hey, we can do this!” and everyone says, “Yeah!” No one says anything negative at this point in the process” says Markus. “We have a million great ideas and haven’t thrown any of them out yet. That being said, it’s sort of a weirdly huge opportunity for storytelling in that you know modern Cap through the Avengers at that point, and just by the nature of what we were talking about before, there’s going to be a lot of his World War II history we haven’t shown. We’re going to have two entire timelines to play with.
I never even considered that these guys might stick with WWII beyond this movie. This makes me really really wonder exactly how the upcoming Captain America movie will end, and how it will tie into the Avengers, because they’ve seemingly just thrown out a theory that he’ll just be frozen in suspended animation by the end credits. And what about the under-appreciated Bucky? Hmmm…
