Flickering Myth’s Oli Davis sat down with directors Anthony and Joe Russo to talk about their movie Captain America: Civil War yesterday. Well, we say ‘sat down to talk’, what we really mean is, ‘completely geeked out about how much he enjoyed their portrayal of Spider-Man’.

“I started collecting comics when I was 10,” Joe remembered, “so Spider-Man was my favourite character. [Civil War’s] interpretation of the character is based on how I felt about the character as a child. There was an incredible relate-ability to the fact he was a 16-year-old dealing with girls, acne and high-school problems while he was also this incredibly powerful Marvel superhero.”

When the Russos first started making Captain America: Civil War, however, Marvel did not have permission to use the Spider-Man character. Sony held the movie rights to Peter Parker and his associated characters because of Marvel’s fire-sale in the 90s to avoid bankruptcy. In early 2015, however, Marvel and Sony struck a joint-custody deal of the intellectual property.

With Spider-Man suddenly dropping into their laps, Joe spoke about what other character he’d love to have in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that the studio currently do not have permission to use.

“Another character of a favourite of mine growing up was Wolverine, which obviously is a character we don’t have the rights to. But if we were to have an opportunity to interpret that character it would be equally as inspiring to me as Spider-Man.”

Unfortunately, Marvel do not have the rights to any of the X-Men characters either (though Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver do exist in a semantic quagmire); 20th Century Fox have held them for almost two decades. And with their recent successes with both X-Men: Days of Future Past and Deadpool, it doesn’t look like they’re relinquish the rights any time soon.

But that doesn’t stop us doing some fantasy booking! How would you write Wolverine into the Marvel Cinematic Universe going forward? Let us know in the comments…

Marvel’s “Captain America: Civil War” finds Steve Rogers leading the newly formed team of Avengers in their continued efforts to safeguard humanity. But after another incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability, headed by a governing body to oversee and direct the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers, resulting in two camps—one led by Steve Rogers and his desire for the Avengers to remain free to defend humanity without government interference, and the other following Tony Stark’s surprising decision to support government oversight and accountability.

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Captain America: Civil War releases in cinemas Friday April 29 in the UK and May 6th 2016 in the States, with Anthony and Joe Russo (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) directing a cast that includes Marvel Cinematic Universe veterans Chris Evans (Steve Rogers/Captain America), Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark/Iron Man), Anthony Mackie (Sam Wilson/Falcon), Jeremy Renner (Clint Barton/Hawkeye), Scarlett Johansson (Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow), Sebastian Stan (Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier), Elizabeth Olsen (Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch), Paul Bettany (The Vision), Don Cheadle (James Rhondes/War Machine), Paul Rudd (Scott Lang/Ant-Man), Emily VanCamp (Sharon Carter), Frank Grillo (Brock Rumlow/Crossbones) and William Hurt (General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross) alongside new additions Chadwick Boseman (Get on Up) as T’Challa/Black Panther, Daniel Bruhl (Rush) as Baron Zemo, Tom Holland (The Impossible) as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Martin Freeman (Sherlock) as Everett Ross.

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