One director and one actor are reportedly banned from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Within the new tell-all e book MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios by Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzalez, and Gavin Edwards, the rise and dominance of the MCU is intricately detailed. Going by way of many years of Marvel’s on-screen historical past, the e book additionally delves into the behind-the-scenes points which have occurred with varied tasks, main to 2 names getting banned from the MCU by Kevin Feige. Per Dexerto, it is famous within the e book, “If the Inhumans may very well be rehabilitated, apparently everybody in MCU historical past was on Feige’s name checklist—besides Edward Norton, the franchise’s first Bruce Banner, and Joss Whedon, whose Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D. characters remained in limbo.”
These will not be the largest shockers. Edward Norton’s troubles behind the scenes of The Unbelievable Hulk have been nicely documented, because the actor had very totally different concepts for what the film must be. They managed to get by way of manufacturing on the movie, although Hulk was promptly recast with Mark Ruffalo taking up the function for subsequent MCU tasks. On the time, Feige has launched a public assertion asserting Norton’s exit from the function.
Kevin Feige Prompt Edward Norton Wasn’t a Staff Participant
“We have now made the choice to not deliver Ed Norton again to painting the title function of Bruce Banner in The Avengers,” Feige mentioned. “Our determination is unquestionably not one primarily based on financial components, however as a substitute rooted within the want for an actor who embodies the creativity and collaborative spirit of our different gifted forged members. The Avengers calls for gamers who thrive working as a part of an ensemble, as evidenced by Robert [Downey Jr.], Chris [Hemsworth], Chris [Evans], Sam [Jackson], Scarlett [Johansson], and all of our gifted casts.”
Feige and Joss Whedon are additionally mentioned to have butted heads over Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Marvel Tv sequence. The e book means that Feige wasn’t proud of what Whedon was doing with the sequence, because the existence of S.H.I.E.L.D. contradicted the occasions of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. That will additionally tie into what Feige wrote within the foreward to a different new MCU-focused e book, by which he implies that all the Marvel reveals earlier than WandaVision aren’t part of the MCU’s “Sacred Timeline.”
“On the Multiverse notice, we acknowledge that there are tales — motion pictures and sequence — which might be canonical to Marvel however have been created by totally different storytellers throughout totally different intervals of Marvel’s historical past,” Feige wrote for Marvel Studios: The Marvel Cinematic Universe – An Official Timeline. “The timeline offered on this e book is particular to the MCU’s Sacred Timeline by way of Section 4. However, as we transfer ahead and dive deeper into the Multiverse Saga, you by no means know when timelines may crash or converge (trace, trace/spoiler alert).”
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