I have been dreading this ever since the Hydra reveal in Cap 2. The biggest strength of the Marvel movies is even with each standing as part of something bigger, each film so far has stood on it's own too (even if Iron Man 2 wobbled a little). If we end up with something like Civil War overshadowing an entire phase of the movies, it's going to be very difficult to keep that up. Each film will either have to just assume people have watched everything else to date, or will have to devote huge time to explaining why everyone hates each other now.
Plus am I the only one thinking that they don't have enough Robert Downey Jr to make this work? As I understood he was signed for 6 films, 4 of which are in the bag, and everyone had assumed that these would be Avengers 2 & 3. Now we know that he is in Avengers 2, and has all but said he won't sign up to any more movies to play Stark, so if they use him in Cap 3 that's him done. No Avengers 3, no Mega crossover, or is my maths wrong somewhere?
Now as an alternative, at the end of Iron Man 3 we still had Iron Patriot kicking around, I could get on board with the idea of James Rhodes as a serviceman and as Iron Patriot fronting a pro-registration movement, and they wouldn't have to use one of their Robert Downey Jr credits (not to mention save his salary) to make it happen.
Plus am I the only one thinking that they don't have enough Robert Downey Jr to make this work? As I understood he was signed for 6 films, 4 of which are in the bag, and everyone had assumed that these would be Avengers 2 & 3. Now we know that he is in Avengers 2, and has all but said he won't sign up to any more movies to play Stark, so if they use him in Cap 3 that's him done. No Avengers 3, no Mega crossover, or is my maths wrong somewhere?
Now as an alternative, at the end of Iron Man 3 we still had Iron Patriot kicking around, I could get on board with the idea of James Rhodes as a serviceman and as Iron Patriot fronting a pro-registration movement, and they wouldn't have to use one of their Robert Downey Jr credits (not to mention save his salary) to make it happen.