Vin Diesel talks Marvel Phase 3, hints at ‘Merging of Brands’
In an interview with Maria Menunos, Vin Diesel talks about Marvel Phase 3 hinting at a ‘merging of brands’. Diesel will be playing Groot in the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy, and will even be doing all of the motion-capture work. According to Diesel, the meeting covered more than just his involvement in Guardians of the Galaxy. There is speculation that he will have a role in an undisclosed 2015 Phase 3 film. Watch the video above for the interview and keep reading for more information!
Read portions of the interview where Vin Diesel talks Marvel Phase 3:
“When I met with Marvel it wasn’t for anything immediate, it was to talk about a film that would be introduced in the Phase 3 part of Marvel, not for a few years. You wouldn’t be able to see it for a few years. In my mind, Marvel were doing it right, they were enrolling me at the ground level which is the best way to enroll me.”
“I get the call, I go down to Marvel. A great meeting. It was even talking about something so big I can’t even talk about because it’s like the merging of brands in a way, which I won’t get into. That was something way, way, way, way, way down the road.”
Diesel reveals that he had agreed not to talk about his role, but then Comic-Con happened:
“We had agreed not to say anything about the specifics of the meeting. So, now I’ve got the fans who I love more than I love the industry, than I love everybody… I was thinking “I’ve got to be real with them, I’ve got to tell them something” and yet I want to be respectful of people’s process and if people like to do a slow reveal, you know?””
“Quite frankly, it would have been too much to say and it might have been anticlimactic to say ‘We’re working on something for 2016’ and so I just said ‘You’re going to hear some really big news’ and I left at the end of that and it went crazy.”
He goes on to mention that his talks with Marvel about the 2016 project are still ongoing:
“The next Monday, Marvel talks to me and says “We’re going to send something over in two weeks. We want to focus on the 2016 but we also want to, if possible, answer this growing request for something now.” I don’t have six months to play a character in the immediate future, it’s all booked… there was no way I was going to be able to deliver… after Comic-Con, we were at a stalemate…”
There are two untitled Marvel films planned for 2016, so these remarks actually create more questions than they do answers. I can’t wait to find out about his possible role and the so-called “Merging of brands” Share your theories in the comment section below.
Source: ComingSoon
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