With the release this week of Iron Man 3, it’s no surprise that Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige is out there on the press junket circuit, and that means all kinds of new tidbits can surface. The latest comes from Entertainment Weekly, where we have the new image on the right that you can click to see a larger version of. Feige talks a bit about Thor: The Dark World in the piece and notes something of what the director is bringing to the table but also the differences from his other work.
“Alan is bringing a grittier, more visceral, more textured patina to the designs of the worlds, and to Asgard in particular,” Feige says. “It’s less to chase either Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings — because you’re not going to catch up. But part of the fun of Thor over the other characters is he doesn’t have to stay on Earth. We visit a few of the other realms in this new movie.”
Feige is dealing with the start of Phase Two films right now with this weeks new film, the first since Avengers, but he’s not afraid to talk about what’s going on with Phase Three and specifically about Ant-Man, which will be directed by Edgar Wright.
“We’ve talked about various names over the past eight years but as you can imagine they keep changing as time goes by,” says Feige. “But towards the end of this year, we’ll buckle down and start casting and start refining the script, which is great and which is very Edgar. He has done a great job being incredibly true to the comics but is putting his own spin on it, so we’ll be drawing on multiple mythologies for this one.”
