I spoke with Pearce about his work on
Runaways, Iron Man 3 and
All Hail The King and asked him what new property or character hed like to work on for Marvel Studios given the chance. And his answer was a bit of a surprise.
The answer to that is I think actually before the other
Drew [Goddard], or as I think of him, the better Drew, took on Daredevil it might actually have been Daredevil, but right now and my obsession for years has always been Damage Control. I think theres an amazing Phase 3 movie to be made about Damage Control which looks at the MCU through the prism of both the kind of blue collar superherodom and also the repercussions of in many ways like the superhero epoch on the rest of the world. I think you also need it to be a brilliant and exciting story but as a group of people, almost as a movie about firemen or public servants in the MCU, I think you can create some genuinely exciting that looks back over 10 years and three phases of MCU tied it together but also told an entirely different perspective of the superhero epoch that were all living in at the moment.
The [Damage Control] comics themselves were brilliant but ridiculous and patchy but I think the idea of it goes well beyond the meta comedy of that stuff and actually does a thing that Marvel movies do a lot but that you could go further with which is the real life implication of some of these events without forgetting that what defines the MCU is its simultaneous ability to tap into a realistic, real life feeling which often comes through the reality of the characters rather than a slavish, super dark world where it sat in. So I love the idea that Damage Control would incorporate both that kind of reality with the sense of humor and some of the lessons that Runaways has for example, and also in a strange way, the One-Shots exemplify as well the ability to color in the corners of the MCU. That was a very long answer. (laughs)
