It’s not hard to see why there’s so much love for Marvel’s various TV series. As well as being massively entertaining shows in their own right, they bring the hugely-popular MCU to the small screen, habitually referencing the films and even featuring some surprise appearances (I’m looking at you, Nick Fury!)
Yet despite all their success, Marvel’s TV shows must have felt left out of the MCU from time to time, with their big-name movie siblings failing to ever truly acknowledge them. Well not anymore, if Marvel Studios’ President Kevin Feige’s comments are anything to go by:
“I think that’s inevitable at some point as we’re plotting the movies going forward and they’re doing the shows,” he explained when asked during the Avengers: Age of Ultron event in LA. Apparently it’s simply an issue of scheduling:
“It’s easier for them. They’re more nimble and faster and produce things quicker than we do, which is one of the main reasons you see the repercussions of Winter Soldier and Age of Ultron in the show. Going forward and certainly as they begin to do more shows and cast them with such great actors as they have — particularly Daredevil — that that may occur. A lot of it is by the time we start doing a movie, they’d be midway through a season; by the time it comes out they’d be done with the second, starting the third season. Finding timing on that is not always easy.”
This obviously hasn’t been the top of Marvel Studios’ list of priorities – aside from them being busy elsewhere, it’s been two years since Marvel’s Agents Of SHIELD began and we’re soon to get our fourth MCU series (with another four in development) – though it’s good to hear that they’re planning to begin incorporating them soon.
After all, considering Agents Of SHIELD has already introduced the titular group of Phase 3’s final film, the Inhumans, it’s not a stretch to think some of the cast ‘might’ feature. Though interestingly they might not be the only ones…
When the subject of films featuring TV series’ characters was raised, a reporter asked if, for example, a Spider-Man film featuring Kingpin would use Vincent D’Onforio. Feige was open to the idea, saying “I don’t know, probably. That would probably be the cool thing to do. That particular scenario has not come up yet.”
Fingers crossed for that. Watching Wilson Fisk square up to Spider-Man certainly sounds like an exciting prospect to us and that could just be the start. We’ll bring you more news on any crossovers as soon as we get it.
