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Captain America: Civil War writers discuss original plan for Captain America 3

By Antonio Ferme

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Captain America: Civil War is one of the best superhero movies ever, but according to the screenwriters, it was almost a completely different film.

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Captain America: Civil War still holds up as one of the best superhero movies of all-time. The film had a great storyline filled with many surprises and intriguing moments along with some great action sequences and character moments. It was a dream come true for Marvel fans to see the iconic “Civil War” storyline be adapted onto the big screen.

Watching Captain America and Iron Man dispute over what they believe is ‘the right thing to do’ was truly fascinating, forever changing our perception of superheroes. We have seen superheroes fight supervillains dozens of times, but watching them fight each other – especially after getting to know them after multiple films of development – was unprecedented and it truly felt special. Interestingly enough, the screenwriters have revealed that the third Captain America film almost turned out vastly different.

During a live recording of Fat Man on Batman, Kevin Smith sat down and talked to Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, the screenwriters behind Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, about their alternate ideas for Civil War. Originally titled Captain America: Serpent Society, Markus and McFeely revealed that they had a very different idea to how they wanted to end the Captain America trilogy.

"“We had a model for the Zola plot,” Markus answered. “Yeah, the Bucky plot. So we were working on that for a long time before Civil War. Again, that’s the other Kevin Bomb. He just goes, ‘Civil War.’ So the room goes quiet and Joe Russo just goes, ‘Oh, he just gave us a billion dollar movie. Holy crap.'”"

It looks like Markus and McFeely wanted the third Captain America film to focus more on Bucky, Zola and H.Y.D.R.A., which would have been a lot more similar to what we got with The Winter Soldier. So when Kevin Feige introduced the Civil War storyline into the mix, the two screenwriters used the Steve and Bucky storyline as a foundation for the film.

This was not the only time Kevin Feige dropped a bomb on Markus and McFeely that changed the entire film. While they were writing the film, Marvel acquired the rights to Spider-Man – and they were going to insert him into the MCU as soon as possible.

"“It also helped the time he came into the room, and we were way down the road [working on Civil War], and he said, ‘You might have to change one thing, because’ and then he went-“"

Kevin Feige made the iconic Spider-Man motion with his hand, indicating that the studio had finally gained permission to use Spider-Man in their movies.

"“This is the best pain-in-the-ass I’ve ever had,” Markus said when looking back at this moment."

It turns out that it wasn’t too big of a pain-in-the-ass for Markus and McFeely to insert Spider-Man into their script as his role was already being filled by another superhero.

"“He would recruit somebody else, he probably recruits Ant-Man, I think would be the other idea,” McFeely explained. “We had a section where you could recruit somebody….I believe he was watching his daughter play soccer, it wasn’t very good.”"

If Spider-Man wasn’t in Civil War, Iron Man would’ve recruited Ant-Man and the movie would stay relatively the same. Even while watching the movie for the first time, it was pretty obvious that Spider-Man’s role in the movie was added last-minute. However, Markus and McFeely handled this pretty well and the movie turned out better than most of us could’ve ever expected.

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Avengers: Infinity War is in theaters now. Ant-Man and the Wasp will be released on July 6, 2018, Captain Marvel on March 8, 2019, the fourth Avengers movie on May 3, 2019, the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming on July 5, 2019, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in 2020.

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