Marvel movies are full of superheroics and action, but there’s no doubt that the world of major movie comic book characters is a very straight one (as evidenced by the recently uncovered contract that says Peter Parker/Spider-man must be heterosexual). However Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has suggested that an LGBT character could be featured in one of their movies, but we may have a bit of a wait.
Talking about the possibility, Feige told Collider, “The comics always make the path that we get to have the fun of saying, ‘Yeah let’s choose this way or let’s choose this way’, and I think there are a lot of cool things happening in the comics now that – it’s usually a five to ten-year cycle between when something happens in the comics and when we can do it in the movie, sometimes a little less, but Civil War is certainly about the ten-year mark. Winter Soldier, I think, was around that time.
”So we always look at stuff that’s happening in the comics and go, ‘Where could we do that?’ Sometimes it’s sooner, but there’s no reason why that couldn’t happen in the next decade or sooner.”
However, while he isn’t ruling anything out, he’s certainly not ruling anything in. It is true that in Marvel’s comics things are getting more diverse, but it doesn’t seem there are currently any plans to move the films in that direction, even if the studio isn’t averse to the idea.
You wouldn’t think it would be too difficult to bring in at least a little more LGBT representation to their movies without waiting a decade though.
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