Captain America The Winter Soldier Writers Talk Easter Eggs And MODOK

After Iron Man 3 and Thor The Dark World hit theaters this year, Captain American The Winter Soldier will be the first Marvel Studios film to arrive in theaters in 2014. Captain America The Winter Solider has already started filming, and some details about characters in the movie have started to leak out. For instance, we know that Georges St-Pierre will play Batroc and Robert Redford will play Agent Alexander Pierce. What we don't know for sure is if there might be any unexpected villains in Captain America The Winter Soldier. In an interview with Nerdist, Captain America The Winter Solider screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely addressed the possibility. When asked the backdoor question of if there were any villains that they wanted to include but couldn't fit in, Christopher Markus said, "No, there are the favorites I'm always trying to wedge in, but the problem is you can't wedge in a giant, flying head. It's not like MODOK can pop up in one scene. But, I think you've seen in the casting announcements that a couple a snuck in." Of course, while Markus' answer seems to suggest that MODOK won't be in Captain America The Winter Soldier, he actually sort of leaves the door open. Markus is just saying that you can't have MODOK pop in for one scene, so if MODOK is in the movie it sounds like he would have a large role. Many fans have speculated that the introduction of A.I.M. in Iron Man 3 was to lay the groundwork for MODOK to emerge as a villain in a future Marvel Studios film. As far as Easter eggs in Captain America The Winter Soldier, Stephen McFeely pointed out that because they already had extensive knowledge of Captain America, it was easy for them to include Easter Eggs in the script. Christopher Markus added, "As far as when these things happen, they happen all along. I was reading the script the other day for a scene they were going to shoot and there's line in there that I would have thought would have been cut long ago that was one of those situations where I needed a proper noun basically, and put in one from the Marvel Universe. It's still there, which would seem to have ramifications, but no one's objected yet. Other times we've had characters like, you know, 'Call in S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Z' or whoever and the Marvel people we say, like, 'He might as well be this guy from the comics. If he's gonna come in and talk, let's give him a name.' So some things end up being reverse-engineered into a reference which is fun."