Kevin Feige Addresses Avengers & X-Men Movie Crossover Possibility

It's been well established that fans want to see a crossover involving the X-Men and the Avengers, and potential other Marvel superhero franchises like Spider-Man. Stan Lee wants to see it, Marc Webb and Andrew Garfield want to see, etc.

Obviously, with franchises being controlled by different studios, it's a lot more complicated than simply writing a script that includes all of these characters and putting them on screen together. Is there any hope?

IGN posed the question to Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige, figuring, if anyone can see this kind of thing doen, it's him. Feige's answer remains the same as it was the last time he was asked, saying he won't rule anything out forever, but there's not really any reason to consider it in the near future.

My answer to that question has always been the same, which is when I started at Marvel 14 years ago the notion of us becoming our own studio, becoming more successful than other studios doing this, and bringing The Avengers to the screen, would have seemed like the pipe dream of all pipe dreams. And because we are sitting here talking because this has all happened, I'm not going to rule out anything. It has been unbelievable – the Marvel experience for me in particular over the years, so anything's possible. But I would say for the immediate future, Fox is very busy building their X-Men universe and redoing the Fantastic Four universe. Sony is well underway with their Spider-Man plans. And we clearly have a long-term vision for the cinematic universe. And thankfully have so many characters and so many possibilities that we don't find ourselves in a position going 'Will we ever get these other characters in here because we don't know what to do.' There's lots to do.

So anything is possible, just not anytime soon.

The next Marvel film, Guardians of the Galaxy, hits theaters August 1.