2011 was the last time that the money making machine that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe released an original title; with Captain America: The First Avenger. While Marvel have now estabished their headline acts Hulk, Captain America, Thor and Iron Man, now is the time for the Studio to expand the Universe and populate it with more diverse, and lesser known characters. This summers Guardians of the Galaxy and next summers Ant-Man are the first steps towards this end, with future projects such as Doctor Strange and Black Panther set to continue this gradual unveiling of the whole Marvel Universe. Speaking to IGN Movies Marvel Studios President confirmed that this is indeed Marvels desired plan, at least in principle...
Marvels line up of characters reaches well into the thousands... thats a LOT of future movies!
"Guardians of the Galaxy fulfilled our desire to do something different, to start producing, each year, a film that was the sequel to a pre-existing, successful franchise and do something new. We're doing that next year with Age of Ultron, with Ant-Man, and hope to maybe continue that model in the coming years."
"I don't know that we'll keep to that model every year, but what we're doing this year and what we're doing next year is: existing franchise, new franchise, existing franchise, new franchise. So I think it would be fun to continue that sort of thing. I don't know that we will do that all the time, but as a general model, I think that would be fun."
