Zak Penn sat down with CraveOnline to talk about his upcoming projects, and more importantly The Avengers. Here's are two great excerpts on how he has to approach writing The Avengers while keeping the continuity of the lead in films (Captain America, Thor, Iron Man 2) in tact.
"CraveOnline: How do you start writing The Avengers before Captain America and Thor are done?
Zak Penn: My job is to kind of shuttle between the different movies and make sure that finally we’re mimicking that comic book structure where all of these movies are connected. It used to drive me crazy at Fox not being able to interweave. Why couldn’t we have Fantastic Four in this movie? Why couldn’t we do this? Now we will. Thor and Captain America will lead right into the Avengers movie, and Iron Man 2 as well.
CraveOnline: Do they give you a place to start or do you have to wait to find out where you pick up?
Zak Penn: We are learning it as we go and it’s pretty complicated. I have a meeting at Marvel this week to catch up on continuity. There’s just a board that tracks “Here’s where everything that happens in this movie overlaps with that movie.” It’s just what they do in the comic books. Think how complicated it is when you’ve got all the titles those companies do. Someone’s got to keep track of all that. What’s Wolverine wearing this week? Are his claws bone or [adamantium]? Yeah, it’s going to be really difficult. The only thing I can say is I’m pushing them to do as many animatics as possible to animate the movie, to draw boards so that we’re all working off the same visual ideas. But the exigencies of production take first priority. "
Sounds good to me. What's going to be interesting to see is the different director's approach, visually, to the story telling. Obviously the characters will have to look the same throughout each film, but the films themselves will look different. Right? Kind of a X-Men thing, where Brett Ratner's film looked pretty different than Brian Singer's. It could also very well be a Star Wars (original trilogy) situation. Three different directors, but all three had the overall same look. I hope they go with the former on this one. It would definitely be more in line with a comic book that way. What do you guys think?
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