Al Pacino has confirmed talks with Marvel over an unspecified role in a future comic book movie.

Interviewed on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the Oscar-winner said he had met with the Disney-owned studio, though he did not expand further.

“I’ve met with the Marvel guy,” said Pacino, referring to the studio’s president Kevin Feige. “It’s a Marvel how things happen.” He added: “I would imagine that either there’s something he feels is right for me …” Pacino was then interrupted by a phone call and joked that it was Marvel on the line telling him to hold his tongue.

The actor revealed on the same podcast in September that he had taken his young children to see the studio’s Guardians of the Galaxy movie and very much enjoyed it. Reports of that conversation, and others in which he praised James Gunn’s barmy blockbuster space fantasy, made headlines around the world – leaving the actor confused.



Al Pacino and Lucila Sola in New York in December. Photograph: Todd Williamson/Invision for Millennium Entertai

“It was just inventive, funny, strong, the production of it, the ingenuity of it,” he said. “Why wouldn’t I like a movie like that, appreciate a movie like that? I’m not necessarily going to be in it, but there’s value to it.”

Marvel announced an ambitious slate of nine new comic book movies stretching all the way to 2019 in October. The studio has found huge success with critically acclaimed entries such as The Avengers and Iron Man 3, both of which earned more than $1bn at the global box office and were placed in the top 10 films of all time at the global box office.

