Kevin Feige Addresses Rumor of How THOR: RAGNAROK Could Set Up AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR

As you know, each Marvel film that is made leads into one of their future films. There's always a little cliffhanger that they leave fans with that always ties into a much bigger story for another movie. In this current phase of the MCU, everything is leading up to Avengers: Infinity War.

It turns out that Thor: Ragnarok could play a huge role in setting up the events of Avengers: Infinity War. Earlier this year, a rumor broke that Cate Blanchett's character Hela "could replace the physical embodiment of Death that Mad Titan Thanos falls in love with when he obtains the Infinity Gauntlet in the comic books." Death is the character who causes the Mad Titan to go on a killing spree and destroy half of the universe in the comics. 

It seems like it would be a smart movie and it kinda makes sense that that's how things would play out. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige was specifically asked about this rumor during an interview with Vulture and this was his response:

"Anything is possible. But knowledge of the comics can be both beneficial to fans anticipating things, and also misleading. So you’ll have to see."

Yeah, so he kind of dances around the answer, but like he said, anything is possible. One thing he didn't do is come out and completely deny it. I'd love it if Blanchett's Hela ended up standing in for Death. Feige went on to talk about the awesomeness of having Blanchett in the role of Hela:

“I would be psyched if I were you. Put it this way: Her part is wrapped, and we haven’t done any effects yet. Even without any effects at all — I’m talking dots on her costume, and green screen — it’s amazing.”

Feige also talked a little bit about the direction that he wants to take the Marvel films, explaining that he wants to have more smaller and intimate movies. I know it seems like these films just keep getting bigger and bigger, but that's not the goal they have in mind. Feige explained:

"I think it’s possible to have more intimate movies after that, or to have more interesting, unexpected combinations of characters after that, absolutely. It never is intentionally about ‘being even bigger.’ Arguably, one of the biggest scenes we’ve ever had in a movie was the airport battle in Civil War, and there weren’t world-ending stakes in that scene, there wasn’t an asteroid smashing into a city in that scene, but there was a conflict between the characters that made you feel something."

I like his vision for these films and that he's not really interested in having to keep upping the ante with every movie. They just want to set out and tell a solid story and from there everything else comes together. 

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