Captain America: Civil War Pitch Meeting

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**Captain America: Civil War Pitch Meeting** is the fifteenth episode of the Pitch Meeting series on Screen Rant.

## Cast

* Producer Guy - Ryan George
* Screenwriter Guy - Ryan George

## Notices

* Screenwriter Guy is wearing a Stark Industries shirt

**Producer Guy:** So you have that new *Captain America* script for me?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yes sir I do. Now I should inform you there's a rumor going around Hollywood right now.

**Producer Guy:** Oh what's that?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Apparently this year everybody's gonna be making movies about heroes fighting heroes. There's gonna be *Batman v Superman*; in *Transformers* they're gonna fight Optimus; in the new *Fast and Furious* they're gonna fight Dom.

**Producer Guy:** Wow, it sounds like everybody's gonna be doing the same kind of crap this year.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, sounds that way. So I figured we would too.

**Producer Guy:** Great!

**Screenwriter Guy:** It's gonna be called *Captain America: Civil War*.

**Producer Guy:** What's that gonna be like?

**Screenwriter Guy:** It's gonna be like if a kid took out all his superhero toys and just started… *[pats his hands together]* smashing them together.

**Producer Guy:** Sounds awesome.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, so we're gonna have the government be mad at the Avengers about all the damage caused in Sokovia and Washington, D.C. and New York City.

**Producer Guy:** Wait, didn't the government try to *nuke* New York City?

**Screenwriter Guy:** They did.

**Producer Guy:** And nobody's gonna bring that up?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No no no.

**Producer Guy:** Okay.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So anyway they want the Avengers to sign the Sokovia Accords. That would give them all government oversight and kinda keep them in check. So Tony and some others are like "Yeah" but Captain America and some others are like "No".

**Producer Guy:** Ah. The conflict is brewing.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, it's pretty serious. It's like the Avengers are being torn up from the inside.

**Producer Guy:** Wow, so there's no need for a villain.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well no, there is a villain.

**Producer Guy:** What does he want?

**Screenwriter Guy:** For the Avengers to be torn up from the inside.

**Producer Guy:** Huh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** His name is Zemo and his family was killed in Sokovia. So he's gonna do like all kinds of crazy stuff. Like he's gonna bomb the United Nations and frame Bucky for it.

**Producer Guy:** Wow.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah and that's gonna kill the king of Wakanda so Black Panther's gonna wanna kill Bucky too.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, Black Panther is in this?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah.

**Producer Guy:** Wow, there is a lot going on!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh yeah, the movie's gonna be super stuffed.

**Producer Guy:** So like half the movie's gonna be setting up future movies.

**Screenwriter Guy:** At least.

**Producer Guy:** I love it.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And we're also gonna have this huge fight at an airport that's gonna involve-

*[Producer Guy's phone rings]*

**Producer Guy:** Oh, sorry. Just a second. *[answers phone]* Hello?

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[blank expression]*

**Producer Guy:** Really? We did?

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[intrigued expression]*

**Producer Guy:** Well that's great news! Yeah, no, we'll put him in there for sure! Thank you! *[hangs up]*

**Screenwriter Guy:** What's up?

**Producer Guy:** Okay so I just got word that we can now use Spider-Man in the MCU!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh wow, that's amazing!

**Producer Guy:** Right? So, let's shove him in there somehow.

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[confused]* In *Civil War*?

**Producer Guy:** Yeah, we can have Tony recruit him onto his team for that airport fight.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Do you think people are gonna mind that… that doesn't make much sense?

**Producer Guy:** What do you mean?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well Tony's whole thing in this movie is about superheroes being more responsible.

**Producer Guy:** Right.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So we probably shouldn't have him recruit an untrained child and throw him into a fight with the world's most powerful heroes and put him in mortal danger.

**Producer Guy:** Okay, yeah, no, I see what you're saying, it doesn't make too much sense, but also look at it this way: It's Spider-Man.

**Screenwriter Guy:** No, yeah, that's a good point.

**Producer Guy:** People love Spider-Man!

**Screenwriter Guy:** They do.

**Producer Guy:** Oh and I'm gonna get somebody really hot to play Aunt May.

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[confused]* Really? To play Aunt May?

**Producer Guy:** Yeah well I mean what two words come to mind when you think of the character "Aunt May"?

**Screenwriter Guy:** I don't know, "old lady"?

**Producer Guy:** "Sex symbol", exactly.

**Screenwriter Guy:** That's… Okay.

**Producer Guy:** Hey, while we're at it, let's throw Ant-Man in here!

**Screenwriter Guy:** How would we do that?

**Producer Guy:** Just toss him onto Captain America's team.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Wasn't his whole movie about not wanting to go to jail and jeopardize things with his daughter?

**Producer Guy:** Yeah, pretty much.

**Screenwriter Guy:** But we're gonna have him jump onto the side of *international fugitives*, no questions asked?

**Producer Guy:** That's exactly right.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Okay.

**Producer Guy:** Hey toss Hawkeye in there too.

**Screenwriter Guy:** But he retired to be with his family.

**Producer Guy:** Yeah but here's the thing about that though: I don't care.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Gotcha.

**Producer Guy:** I mean if we're gonna overstuff this movie let's go all-out.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, no, fair enough.

**Producer Guy:** So what happens at this airport fight?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well I figure we just give every character a couple of one-liner jokes, maybe one or two fight scenes each, and call it a day.

**Producer Guy:** Sounds like a classic Marvel fight.

**Screenwriter Guy:** But I was thinking because, you know, somebody should get hurt during a fight with the world's most powerful heroes that maybe we kill War Machine at the end.

**Producer Guy:** *[unfazed]* No.

**Screenwriter Guy:** No?

**Producer Guy:** No no no, none of that "things having consequences" business.

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[bargaining]* Okay, can he be injured? Maybe?

**Producer Guy:** *[unhappy]* Pffff.

**Screenwriter Guy:** It just feels like *something* should happen.

**Producer Guy:** *[resigned]* Fine, he can get hurt, but he has to be in recovery at the end of the movie.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Thank you.

**Producer Guy:** But that's it though! No more consequences.

**Screenwriter Guy:** I promise nothing else will have much impact on anything at all.

**Producer Guy:** Good. So how does it end?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well you know that bad guy I mentioned earlier?

**Producer Guy:** Yeah?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well he's gonna have this thing where other than a minor hiccup at the beginning, everything's just gonna kind of… go his way.

**Producer Guy:** What do you mean?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Okay, so because Natasha released some HYDRA files, he knows that something happened in 1991 involving the Winter Soldier. So he tries to find out what it is by interrogating this HYDRA dude but it doesn't work.

**Producer Guy:** The hiccup?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Right. But from that point on everything's gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience.

**Producer Guy:** I'm listening.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So he decides he needs to interrogate Bucky himself, but Bucky is in hiding. So he bombs the United Nations and frames Bucky to kinda flush him out.

**Producer Guy:** Wouldn't being framed just send him deeper into hiding?

**Screenwriter Guy:** You'd think so but it works almost immediately.

**Producer Guy:** Oh wow.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah so then Zemo kills a psychiatrist that's supposed to interview Bucky and takes his place.

**Producer Guy:** Isn't anyone familiar with the psychiatrist they hired? Or at the very least know what he looks like?

**Screenwriter Guy:** You'd think so but luckily for Zemo apparently nobody does.

**Producer Guy:** Okay.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Then he finds out what the 1991 thing was and luckily for him it involves the Winter Soldier and Tony's parents.

**Producer Guy:** That's convenient.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Very. And then luckily for him Captain America decides to go against everybody, and somehow he and Bucky manage to escape together.

**Producer Guy:** Hm.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Then luckily for Zemo everybody follows him to Siberia. And there's an actual videotape of Bucky killing Tony's parents in 1991 because luckily for him there was a security camera in that exact spot in the middle of a forest road and for some reason HYDRA decided to keep it in their records. And then Tony sees it and luckily for him even though Tony now knows that the Winter Soldier was brainwashed and framed and not actually responsible, he immediately loses his mind and tries to kill both Bucky and Cap.

**Producer Guy:** Wow, that's all super lucky.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So then there's a fight but at the last minute Cap doesn't kill Tony.

**Producer Guy:** You're damn right he doesn't!

**Screenwriter Guy:** So then they're like "Well we're not friends anymore but also we're still friends and call me anytime.".

**Producer Guy:** I love it!

**Screenwriter Guy:** You think it's gonna do well?

**Producer Guy:** Well I'm looking at this as kind of a test.

**Screenwriter Guy:** What do you mean?

**Producer Guy:** I have this theory that stuffing more and more characters into our movies translates to more money at the box office.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Interesting.

**Producer Guy:** Yeah and so if this movie does well, we can just go crazy with it.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Fingers crossed.

*[cut to headline: **'Massive' Infinity War Features At Least 76 Characters**]*