This is terrific. Peter Parker’s story took a dramatic turn in ‘Far From Home’ and I could not be happier we will all be working together as we see where his journey goes. This has been a winning partnership for the studios, the franchise and the fans and I’m overjoyed it will continue.
They might know about Thor. It doesn’t come up. It doesn’t come up. I don’t think they know anything about the Avengers. They might know Volstagg and Sif walked into the Collector’s lab once, so they sort of must know that they sort of, some people know they exist, but that’s not, that doesn’t come into play in this story.
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That was very frustrating for us because we see it from the other side. When I say we, I mean the filmmakers, because we’re presented with the stuff that’s being made, and I don’t know if there’s an absolutely equal sampling, but Black Widow was all over that.
Gamora was all over that stuff. What we don’t see is how much of it is in any given store. How easy is one piece of merchandise to find versus another piece of merchandise? So, we see the stuff and we go, ‘Oh great, these are all our characters, they’re all greatly represented. They’re all going to be sold.’ Then we find out, oh, you can’t find this, you can’t find that, or there’s lunch boxes or a backpack where a certain character is not on it, and I think the outrage was great because that’s not going to happen anymore. And that was one of our big things we set out to do, and it was very important to James as well, was putting, as we did in the first film with a number of characters and even more so this time, women at the forefront of the story.
We can’t have sway over what a retail store, how many items of what they want to stock on a shelf.But when toy sets come over, or t-shirt designs come over if they’re not represented properly or representative of the film, we’re not even saying, ‘Is the equality of each gender specific?’ We’re going, ‘Does it represent the movie we’re making?’ If it doesn’t, we send it back until it does.
Should I announce it? No, I’m not announcing. But it's something…they are both characters that we like, that development work has been done on and is continuing to be done on. And certainly, the public… it’s a question I get asked more than anything else… more than Iron Man 4... more than Avengers 3. And that’s sort of the first time that’s really happened to us. And I think that makes a difference. I think that’s something we have to pay attention to.
Are we going to get any Thanos in "Avengers 2?" There was some of him in "Guardians in the Galaxy," and it was clear that when he gets a movie, it's going to be a big deal.
Right. I'm glad it feels that way. That's the idea. He's not a part of "Avengers 2."
Is that going to be part of the "Avengers 3" game plan?
I think Thanos kind of does what he wants, shows up where he wants to. And I'm not going to tell him otherwise, so you don't know exactly. Smirking at the end of the first "Avengers." But you know, we're still making "Avengers 2," so nothing's definitive one way or the other, actually.
