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NEW YORK, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Comic book legend Stan Lee is confident that one day characters from Star Wars and The Avengers could appear together on-screen. According to Lee, Disney, the studio who owns both properties, could find a way to make it happen due to the potential box office revenue such a crossover would generate.
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"Obviously the people who produce these [movies] are looking to be as successful as possible," Lee said in the latest issue of The 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!"
"I created the Avengers by taking many of our characters and making a team out of them," Lee continued. "We can have as many characters join the Avengers as we want to for future movies. That might be fun, all of a sudden Luke Skywalker is an Avenger!"
No stranger to crossovers, Marvel is gearing up for two big universe spanning films, Captain America: Civil War, which will feature Spider-Man for the first time in the Marvel cinematic universe, and the unifying Avengers: Infinity War, which directors Joe and Anthony Russo say will feature 67 characters.
With Spider-Man finally able to join the fold after Marvel struck a deal with the web-slinger's rights holder Sony, Lee thinks it's only a matter of time before other characters like the X-Men and the Fantastic Four who are tied to Fox also appear in a Marvel film.
"It'll be the most expensive film ever produced!" Lee said. "I don't know how many characters you can have in a movie but anything that the public want to see you can be sure it will eventually be produced."
