Fans are eagerly awaiting the premier of Captain America: Civil War, and with good reason. Not only will we get to see Avenger vs. Avenger, but we'll also get our first looks at Black Panther and Spider-Man, both new to the MCU. But had the Marvel always planned on this film being a Civil War adaptation? According to Kevin Feige, the answer to that question is no. During an interview with io9, Feige had this to say about the early concepts for Captain America 3:
“We developed Captain America 3 knowing we wanted to continue the Bucky story. Is Bucky going to get his mind back? What is Bucky struggling with, after the tag scene on Winter Soldier, and how does Steve’s desire to save Bucky bring him into conflict with something else, thinking about how do the sins of his past sort of affect him? And [writers] Chris [Markus] and Steve [McFeely] came up with a number of cool plots that could’ve worked, but none of them were feeling worthy of a follow up to Winter Soldier.”
Stephen McFeely joined the conversation and said:
“Do you put [Bucky] away for a while? Do you bring him back? And how do you not tread the same ground? It would be very easy to bring Winter Soldier back and fight him again. We plotted out a movie that wasn’t Civil War, but that had sort of the central spine that you still see, with Zemo and Bucky and a couple of the set pieces. And the further you probe into the effects of the Winter Soldier on the [Marvel Cinematic Universe], by not bringing in other people, we’re actually ignoring content.”
Feige said that he had wanted to do a Civil War movie, but he didn't know when it would happen, but as Captain America 3 kept developing, he felt that this was the best time to make it. Here's what he said:
“I thought, if we’re going to do Civil War, which I always wanted to do, this is the time to do it. All we have to get is this, this, this and this. ‘Okay, well the odds of that are very slim.’ ‘Okay, but if we could, what would it be?’ Chris and Steve started to chart out various versions of the movie. [Versions] without Iron Man, [versions] without Spider-Man—but we’re very lucky we got to make the whole one. The one we really wanted do.”
But a lot of different things had to fall into place before Civil War could happen:
“It wasn’t Civil War from the start. It was something that we were discussing and we had in the back of our minds, and we knew that if we were going to come back and do another Cap film, we wanted to do something radical and make another strong choice for the character. We were looking for storylines that would allow us to do that, and we just kept coming back to Civil War as the storyline that would give us the most juice – storytelling juice – and challenge Cap as a character more extremely than any other plot that we came up with in the exploratory phase.”
“We did put ourselves in the position, both with Robert and with Spider-Man, where we were hanging out there quite a bit. We committed on a storytelling level to both characters and we just, you know, willed those into existence.”
Luckily, Robert Downey Jr. signed on, and Marvel and Sony came to an agreement to allow Spider-Man to join the MCU. Everything ended up working out to make this incredible movie.
Captain America: Civil War opens May 6, 2016.
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