Stan Lee Discusses Marvel Characters Featuring in a Star Wars Movie
“Can you imagine Spider-Man saying: ‘May the force be with you’? It may come to that!”
The man behind some of the world’s most-loved comic book characters has hinted that they may one day meet the cast of Star Wars, in an on-screen collaboration. “Well, I don’t know how many characters you can have in a movie but obviously the people who produce these things are looking to be as successful as possible,” explained Stan Lee to British magazine Big Issue, “If they feel that incorporating Star Wars with the Marvel characters will be very successful, they’ll find a way to do it. Can you imagine Spider-Man saying: ‘May the force be with you’? It may come to that!” With the rights for Marvel’s movies now being held by Disney, along with digital distribution rights to the Star Wars franchise, it’s not beyond the realms of possibility and the 93-year-old was keen to point out that similar things have happened with his works previously. “We did it in the comics. I created the Avengers by taking many of our characters and making a team out of them,” he said. “We can have as many characters join the Avengers as we want to for future movies. That might be fun too – all of a sudden Luke Skywalker is an Avenger!” Read Stan’s full interview here.
