The 2015 release of ‘Big Hero 6’ will mark the first collaboration between Marvel Comics and Disney Animation Studios, which both now sit under the same Disney corporate umbrella.

Although it features Marvel-created characters (albeit rather obscure ones), the filmmakers have confirmed that ‘Big Hero 6’ is set in an entirely separate fictional universe to the live-action Marvel Studios films, with director Don Hall telling Total Film earlier this year, “There’ll be no Iron Man or Captain America, and no Avengers in this world. Our Avengers are the Big Hero 6.”

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However, we could be seeing one Marvel icon in the final film… albeit one without a cape.

We pressed the matter with the film’s producer Roy Conli at a preview event for the film earlier today, asking him if there was still room for a cameo from Marvel icon Stan Lee somewhere in the film. He cracked a huge grin and replied knowingly, “I can’t wait for you to see the film!”



“I’ll say that much! I can’t wait for you to see the film.”

So, he didn’t exactly confirm it, but he didn’t deny it either. In fact, his answer felt like a confirmation to us.

Marvel figurehead Stan Lee has made cameo appearances in nearly every film based on a Marvel property since ‘X-Men’ in 2000, most recently playing a “Xandarian ladies’ man” in this year’s ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’. Seeing as he isn’t a Marvel character as such, this would a cool way to link the Disney Animation Studios film to the wider Marvel brand, without throwing in characters like Iron Man or Hulk.

We’ll have more details from the ‘Big Hero 6’ preview event, including our first impressions of the films, coming up on Yahoo Movies soon.

‘Big Hero 6’ is in UK cinemas from 30 January, 2015.

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