‘X-Men’ Producer Lauren Shuler Donner Would ‘Love’ An ‘Avengers’ Crossover
By Germain Lussier/Oct. 8, 2012 3:40 pm EST
Note: This quote was in today’s Superhero Bits, but is now being expanded upon.
Shuler Donner said the following in an interview with Crave Online:
Lauren Shuler Donner: I would love it. I would love it. I personally have close ties to Marvel because of Kevin Feige, because Kevin worked for me. But to take our characters and mingle them in the way that they were written, yeah, absolutely.
Q: Now that The Avengers has done so well, it seems like the other studios with Marvel properties can see the advantage of making a deal. Can you see a world where this generation of X-Men could be in an Avengers movie?
As someone who’s been attached to the X-Men since the late Nineties, Shuler Donner is obviously a fan and what fan wouldn’t want to see The Avengers and X-Men together on the big screen? However, if it was to happen, it literally couldn’t until the latter part of this decade at the earliest. X-Men: Days of Future Past and The Avengers 2 are scheduled for release in 2014 and 2015 respectively and neither will have team members owned by the other studios. But you can bet on Millar (and Feige’s) long to-do list is “Reunite all the Marvel characters.” (Including Spider-Man, housed at Sony.) So even if a deal was struck tomorrow (it won’t be, that’s just hypothetical), the movie would likely have to happen after those two films were completed.
The issue, of course, isn’t a creative one. There are decades upon decades of stories to draw from including all these characters. It’s a financial thing, as in, who would pony up the cash? Who would distribute? How would the grosses be split across the world? Studios have been known to share some of these responsibilities – Paramount even has a slice of the earlier Marvel movies because of a deal before Disney was involved – so anything is possible. But it’s complicated and competitive.
Do you think this will ever happen? Who would be the one to bend?
