By: Russ Burlingame on September 19, 2012
In an interview with Collider during the Toronto International Film Festival, Chris Evans–who plays Captain America in both the character’s own films and in The Avengers movies–expressed a desire to appear in Thor: The Dark World as well.
“[Chris] Hemsworth and I even talked about that. I would love to do a little thing in Thor 2,” Evans said. “It is obviously going to be tricky trying to work out the plot, the reason why I am not there to help him, and why he is not there to help me. But the best thing about Marvel is that, like I said, the movies were so good and we had such a good time making them.”
That problem he discusses is, of course, part of the challenge of writing in-universe superhero stories in general; when things get really grim for Batman, one always has to ask, “Why doesn’t he just call Superman?”. The trick is to write a story that stands strongly enough on its own that fans are pulled into the film and not necessarily constantly feeling the pull of the “universe” on the plot.
