Kevin Feige Didn’t Think Madbomb’s Original Idea For CAPTAIN AMERICA 3 Was ‘Big Enough’

Before it became the third Captain America movie Captain America Civil War, there was a very different direction Marvel’s creative team was taking. directors Joe And Anthony Russo they were initially inspired by an old Jack Kirby Captain America story from 1975 that revolved around Madbomb.

The Madbomb completely destroyed the minds of everyone in its vicinity, turning them into a mass of mindless zombies. They weren’t undead, these people were just violently insane. Joe Russo previously explained:

“There was a time when we discussed a third act that revolved around the Madbomb from the Cap mythology. It had nothing to do with Civil War, and while we couldn’t find Downey — in the very first conversations before we nailed it — somebody pitched the idea of ​​a third act revolving around Madbomb, who drives people crazy. It almost feels like zombies them, but not literally. … The appeal of Madbomb is that you turn hordes of people into berserkers. That was the physical challenge Cap and company would have to face.

“The idea of ​​the Madbomb was going to be that Cap was going to fight civilians and how he was going to handle that. We’ve always tried to put him in these interesting moral puzzles because of the nature of him. That would have made for a compelling third act because if civilians are the antagonists, how could he stop them without killing them?

I’ve always loved this idea and think it would make a great Marvel story! Producer Nate Moore recently talked about it on The Town podcast saying:

So we were developing Captain America 3 and we were doing it [doing] really good. Winter Soldier worked, people came back, they’re interested, and we were talking about a movie, and we knew we had to solve, obviously, the plot of Winter Soldier. We wanted Cap and Bucky to eventually reunite. And the texture that we… And we knew we wanted to use Zemo. What a beautiful character. You know, he’s obviously a classic Cap villain. And we were building the movie around a MacGuffin around the Madbomb, which, the Madbomb explodes and makes normal people start fighting each other. It’s honestly a bit similar to what I think they did in Kingsman.”

But Kevin Feige didn’t feel the same way. In fact, according to Moore, Feige didn’t like the idea. He didn’t think it was a big enough story, which is just silly to me. Feige is the one who suggested Civil War, but Moore rejected it because he thought the movie would crowd their already full plate and there was no way the movie could fit everything from the comic.

“And it was cool, and it was grounded, and it was political, and whatever, and [Feige] he was like, ‘That’s not a big enough idea, guys.’ And we’re like, ‘Let us write a draft, we’ll prove it to you.’ [Feige:] “Okay, show me.” As we’re finishing up…she takes me into his office and says, ‘You know, I think we should try to do Civil War.’ And I was like, ‘Kevin, we don’t have half the stuff that is in Civil War. We don’t have the New Warriors, we don’t have… That’s all the reasons why we can’t do it.’ And he says, “Go home, read it, let’s talk about it.” So I went home that night, I read it… I read it again, because I had read it before and I was like, ‘Yeah, look, we don’t have the Negative Zone prison…’ There were so so many things that we didn’t have.

No matter how hard she tried to dissuade him, Feige eventually won. He just didn’t think audiences would be enthralled by the Madbomb storyline, which is again just silly. While I loved Civil warI honestly think the concept of Madbomb is much more interesting. More said:

“I went into the writer’s room with Markus, McFeely, Joe and Anthony, and Kevin peeked inside his head and said, ‘So, enough of Madbomb, you guys are doing Civil War.’ And I was like, ‘Ah, fuck.’ And Joe said, “Yes! Civil War? Great!” And then we had to figure out how to do ‘Civil War.’ But he was like, ‘There wasn’t an idea big enough to get the audience excited and we did it.'”

Moore went on to explain that it all worked out in the end:

“Look, it was scary and when you throw a whole thing out and start over, it’s always a little weird, but he was right. He was right. We were still able to pay off Bucky’s storyline. We still figured out how to use Zemo. But the central idea of ​​the film was something that the audience would gravitate towards and they did.”

Yes, audiences gravitated towards it, but they would also gravitate towards the movie Madbomb! Captain America Civil War he was essentially made into a third party avengers movie. I liked what we got, but I think I would much rather have seen the Madbomb story first Civil war. What do you think?

Via: The Direct