Zack Penn has been attached as the screenwriter of Marvel's "Avengers" movie for a long time, and now that it's slated for 2012, he's starting to work on it (again).“It’s hard to make a good movie,” the screenwriter told a crowd gathered at a Los Angeles Film Festival panel last night, according to Sci Fi Wire. “We all have the best intentions, and it still might suck.”
That won’t stop Penn from trying. Having already written mutant mash-ups in “X2: X-Men United” and “X-Men: The Last Stand,” Penn is no stranger to juggling a multitude of superheroes. Believe it or not, he actually wanted to include more comic book characters in those films, as Penn said that he’d planned to incorporate the "Fantastic Four" into the X-Men movies. Unfortunately, Fox didn't agree with the screenwriter. Marvel is going with a more open-minded approach to their movies though.
“[Marvel wants] to see that they’re all connected, not like the Fantastic Four can’t come into the X-Men world, like I was told [by Fox],” Penn said.
“I’m taking a meeting next week with the ‘Thor’ and ‘Captain America’ people, and we are all going to get together, and I will see what is going to happen,” he said. “I’ll see where they are leaving the characters; it’s pretty complicated.”
Even if “The Avengers” doesn’t work out quite as well as he’d hope, Penn suggested that the film is — at the very least — in the right hands. He praised Marvel’s work as a studio thus far, pointing to their first-hand knowledge of the source material as the reason for their success.
“Marvel is autonomous now,” Penn said. “It is night and day: Everyone has read every comic. They know how to make a cool movie.”
With the massive amount of collaboration being done in Marvel Studios to create this new film canon for the heroes, I'm sure the films will all tie into each other and have a great start in the "Avengers" movie (possibly only the first of many).
More news to come! Catch ya' later!
Source: MTV News, First Showing
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