Based it on what we have seen so far, it seems as though every hero from the MCU is going to appear in next months Captain America: Civil War (With the exception on the TV Characters apparently) but thanks to an interview with the films writers, we know one of the characters who didn’t make the cut. Read on to find out who, but be warned…there will be spoilers.
It was previously rumored that Captain America: Civil War would feature appearance by the The Incredible Hulk who was last seen heading off into the sunset after the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron. However it sounds like that won’t be the case as an interview with Huffington Post reveals. Speaking to the interviewer, co-writer Christopher Markus revealed:
‘We can clean that up real quickly, Mark Ruffalo shot no scenes. We talked about having Bruce Banner at the very end of the film, and it just, again, seemed like we’re sticking people in just to stick them in.’ Before adding ‘He has clearly gone somewhere at the end of Ultron, and that’s a story. Don’t blow it off and put it in a little tiny chunk just to put in a little extra filigree on our movie. That’s a story.’
However it appears though the characters was scheduled to appear at an earlier point during production with Stephen McFeely explaining ‘There was a draft with a stinger of him in it,‘ before going on to address the reports that he was with the cast during filming in Germany ‘But that was long ago, and reports of him actually filming stuff — the unit publicist on the movies [John M. Pisani] looks a lot like Ruffalo, so when people say, ‘Hey, he’s in Berlin dancing with Anthony Mackie,’ it’s John Pisani. It’s not Ruffalo.’
However it wasn’t just Hulk who was left out of the ensemble piece, Evangeline Lily’s The Wasp was also left out the films final draft despite appearing in an earlier version of the script. McFeely revealed:
‘We certainly had a draft where both Ant-Man and Wasp were recruited, but when they come in, that’s a lot of story there, and you can’t just let Paul Rudd do what we need him to do in that section, which is look at it from wide open innocent eyes and appreciate the Avengers from the outside, which gets you comic relief beat after beat after beat. Spider-Man’s similar, right? Because these people have an investment, and these two new people don’t. It’s not that Wasp wouldn’t also have that opinion maybe, but we have not seen her be a hero at all, so that’s an example of where we think we’d be drinking someone’s milkshake,” before concluding ‘Let’s let the Ant-Man franchise show her come to her full fruition as opposed to just doing it offscreen.’
Given that both The Wasp and Hulk with be co-leading films, Ant-Man and The Wasp and Thor: Ragnarok respectively, it makes sense that the characters would be saved for a bigger role. Of course this could all be smoke and mirrors and we will be treated to a surprise cameo or two. We can find out when the film is released May 6th.
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