Could IRON MAN, CAPTAIN AMERICA and THOR be Held Out of AVENGERS 3 For Something Bigger?



Speculation mixed with theory mixed with conjecture and perhaps mixed with a tiny bit of truth is what this post is about. So don't take any of this as fact or truth and just enjoy the read which should open your mind for something big that Marvel Studios could have planned for the future.

Fans should know by now that it's assumed Avengers 3 could be an Infinity Gauntlet-inspired event movie. But what if it isn't? Over on the website BadAssDigest.com, they write how Marvel could be saving their biggest actors' last contracted film for a film much larger than Avengers 3.

"Last week a rumor hit that Marvel was going to split Avengers 3 into two movies, and this would be how they would get around the ending of actors' contracts. I explained why that isn't possible, from a basic legal standpoint, but while doing some digging on this rumor I discovered it was closer to truth than I ever imagined. Marvel isn't spltting Avengers 3 into two movies, but they are planning Avengers 3 as the springboard to... something else. And they're going to use their biggest characters in that something else, keeping them out of Avengers 3.

"Imagine an Avengers 3 without Thor or Captain America, maybe without Black Widow. It's a movie where the secondary characters from the MCU get to stand up and prove their worth, possibly even setting up their own spin-offs. With Guardians, Marvel has shown that their brand is the star and by the time we get to A3 clearly people will be on board with the entire universe. Keep Iron Man — Robert Downey Jr's renegotiated contract seems to specify Avengers 3 as his next film — and you have a new launching pad for characters to take over from the current big guns.

"Storywise this is all easy to do — Cap will be very busy with the fallout of Captain America 3, and I wouldn't be shocked to see Steve Rogers give up the shield at the end of that movie. Thor 3 is going to wrap up all the Asgardian drama, and could very well end with Thor forced to sit on his father's throne. Black Widow is easy to write out on another adventure. Hulk... well, Hulk's planet of residence could well be up in the air by 2018 or so."

The site theorizes how Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth (plus perhaps a few other original Avengers team members) could be saved for a super event movie like Marvel's Infinity Gauntlet or Marvel's Civil War. Again, this is a lot of speculation and conjecture but it would be smart to use Avengers 3 as a jumping off point for a new team of Avengers. This could lead into a super event movie with all their newest Avengers members along with their original and biggest actors in their final contractual role. 

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