Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe Page #7

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at the beginning of "Avengers 2,"

things are very different than

when we left the characters

at the end of "Avengers 1," and

partially that's the experience

that Tony Stark went

through in "Iron Man 3,"

and partially that's the experience

of what Thor went through

in "the Dark World,"

but primarily it's

because of the adventure

that Captain America has

in "the Winter Soldier."

The price of freedom is high...

...and it's a price I'm willing to pay.

As we journey through phase two,

audiences will next be

taken across the stars,

where another unlikely group of heroes

will become the Guardians of the Galaxy,

and Earth's Mightiest Heroes

will reassemble

to face a villain

no single hero can defeat.

With phase

two continuing to explode

across screens worldwide,

the studio is now

looking beyond the stars

to the farthest reaches of

the Marvel cinematic universe.

"Guardians of the Galaxy"

seemed like a good opportunity

to kind of go a different

direction, so we're gonna

see the world from a totally

different point of view.

It does take us back to

that same mind-set we were in

six, seven, eight years

ago when we decided,

"hey, we want to make a

feature out of 'Iron Man.'"

Guardians has been around for years.

Hard-core fans know them

well from the comics.

But really, we're

looking at something new.

The driving forces for

me was to be able to

create a gritty world that

was still very colorful.

The Guardians of the

Galaxy consisted of members,

all of whom are very

selfish, for the most part,

but they find that there's

something worth fighting for

that's bigger than themselves.

The growth of these

characters allows for the film

to kind of create its own personality

and its own identity.

That's always fun when you're

at the frontier of something new.

Who are you?

- Starlord.

- Who?

I'm Starlord, man.

Legendary outlaw?

Forget it.

To me, what defines the end of one phase

and the beginning of another

phase is an "Avengers" film.

The events of "the Avengers"

carries through the phase two films.

It goes through to "age of Ultron," as well.

Once you have your origin of a team,

the next story is really about

what can that paradigm sustain

once they've digested their shawarma?

Can these people

actually stand each other?

It's interesting 'cause we see

a lot of new loyalties and friendships.

Part of the fun of "the Avengers," the

comic, is that it's a shifting roster.

If you look at any given run,

the team can be quite different,

and we want to explore that,

so we wanted to bring some

new members into the mix.

We're introducing the

Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver,

and they did not necessarily start out

being bestest friends with the Avengers.

- And we also see the origins of Ultron.

- Ultron has been one of

the greatest Avengers

villains for decades.

He's someone, even before I

took the first film, I said,

"I know in the second one,

you have to have Ultron."

"Avengers:
Age of Ultron"

is going to be

a little more grown-up

than the first one...

a little scarier, a little funkier...

but in the end, it's got the

same extraordinary characters

and a lot of humor.

And, yes, there may be some punching.

We are in the middle of Johannesburg,

where we're shooting a

sequence we've been planning

for months and months and months,

and it's gonna be awesome.

We love all of our

movies to stand apart,

and we love that

"Guardians of the Galaxy"

is a full-on action-adventure

science-fiction film

and that we sort of have techno-thriller

elements in the Iron Man films.

The new Captain America film,

"the Winter Soldier," is a political thriller.

So we don't believe that the

superhero film is a genre unto itself.

We love taking sub-genres

and putting them together

and then adding the superhero elements

into other genres of film.

As a lifelong Marvel fan,

I'm very excited

to see some of my favorite

characters on the screen.

They have such great power.

You know, they're also just like us.

The audience can feel like

they're a part of this world.

I'm excited to see what I believe

that Marvel's trying to do,

which is to continue to go outside

the most obvious characters.

I'm just like the Hulk,

except I can't turn gre...

I can, though. Don't tell anybody.

These are all chapters

in a kind of giant pop-culture

mythology, and I love that.

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