“…there’s a real push and a real need and a real desire to see diversity in front of and behind the camera,” “The Florida Project” director Sean Baker recently told us about the current indie cinema climate. That sentiment is also true at the studio level. Executives are starting to embrace new voices to tell their stories, and over at Marvel, there’s an idea floating around to bring together the women of the cinematic universe into their own movie.
Tessa Thompson, who winning commands the screen as Valkyrie in “Thor: Ragnaork,” revealed how a conversation with her fellow Marvel colleagues sparked a concept that they shared with Kevin Feige.
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“I think in that group was Brie Larson, myself, Zoe Saldana, although she ran off to the bathroom, I think, so she came midway through the pitch but she had been in the rev-up to it,” Thompson told CBR. “Scarlett Johansson. Pom [Klementieff] and Karen [Gillan], who are both in the ‘Guardians’ movies. Yeah, I think it was that group. We were just sort of all in a semicircle talking, and it just came up, because none of us really worked together – well, I suppose Zoe, and Karen, and Pom – and wouldn’t it be nice if we could all work together?”
“And we were sort of speculating on they ways in which it might happen in ‘Infinity War,’ or might not happen,” she continued. “And we thought, ‘No, we should just have a whole movie where we know every day we’re going to arrive and get to work together.’ So we just ran right up to Kevin Feige and started talking about it.”
Whether or not this goes anywhere remains to be seen, but Thompson says Feige was more than willing to hear them out, so you just never know. Certainly, we’d be up for seeing how a movie with all those characters coming together would work.
“Thor: Ragnarok” opens tomorrow.
