It was obvious right from the beginning that “Captain America: Civil War” wasn’t going to be able to do the story exactly like the comics. Marvel doesn’t have the rights to all of the characters plus the characters in the MCU don’t have secret identities. Mark Millar recently spoke to IGN and talked about the changes the movie will make to the story and how it’s more about an “ideological argument” on the big screen.
“The important thing really is the superhero registration act,” Millar said. “It’s nothing to do with secret identities, weirdly. People get hung up on secret identities but as I was writing that book, I was thinking about superheroes having to expose their identities as they all get brought under government registration. And I said to Marvel, ‘Who’s got a secret identity?’ They said ‘No one. There’s basically Spider-Man and that’s about it,’ even Daredevil had given up his secret identity. So I made it about something else, and what it’s about is that Iron Man feels that anyone who’s walking around with a nuclear reactor on their back, or whatever all these superheroes have, they should be working for the government in some way. And it’s sensible when you think about it, it totally makes sense. You have a license, you make sure this guy’s okay, he doesn’t have a criminal record and all this stuff. And it’s sensible that Captain America is against it because he comes from a simpler time and he thinks superheroes should be autonomous and not be involved in politics. So it’s an ideological argument between the two. That’s all that matters; that’s all that Civil War is.”
You can check out the rest of the interview below.
