Author: Cameron Bonomolo / Source: Marvel
Avengers 4 will act as a point of demarcation for the ongoing Marvel Cinematic Universe, bringing its first ten-year chapter to a close — along with numerous contracts belonging to its biggest stars.
“The contract is done. A lot of our contracts are through,” Captain America star Chris Evans told Good Morning America when promoting Avengers: Infinity War, explaining his contract expires alongside longtime Iron Man and Thor stars Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Hemsworth.
“Myself, Downey, Hemsworth, we all kind of started roughly at the same time, and I think we all, through Avengers 4, kind of wrap it up,” Evans said. “So at this point, I don’t know what’s next, but yeah, by 2019, that’s it.
”A November profile of Marvel Studios by Vanity Fair noted the contractual obligations of the big three are fulfilled in Avengers 4 alongside fellow franchise stars Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), and Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), who has already signed on to reprise her role as the deadly spy-turned-superhero in a standalone prequel set before the events of 2012’s The Avengers.
When asked what happens when the MCU’s stars choose to move on, Marvel Studios chief and master planner Kevin Feige said that’s something the studio “can look to in the comics.”
“And that’s why these characters are so relevant. I talk about 10 years of movies, but it’s 50-plus years of comics. And they’re just as relevant and popular,” Feige told the Costco Connection in August.
“And that’s because they do get updated. They do change with the times. I have no doubt that all of our actors, who are in peak physical shape, have got another 50 years in them to be heroes. In terms of the specifics of how we will evolve the characters, thankfully I don’t have to really think about it yet. ‘Cause we’re still finishing what we started here with Avengers: Infinity War.”
Feige previously suggested the franchise would turn an eye towards recasting when it came to actor turnover, as it has when swapping out Terrence Howard for Don Cheadle as War Machine in 2010’s Iron Man 2 and Edward Norton for Ruffalo in The Avengers.
“Look to history: We have a new Spider-Man right now who was in our [Captain America: Civil War], and is in Spider-Man: Homecoming, and the audience has embraced it,” he told Variety in 2016.
“And you can look to Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, and Batman as characters that last longer than any one actor playing them.
There’s a precedent for it in other franchises that suggests it’s possible.”In 2017, Feige acknowledged some members of his stable of stars stepping away in…
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