Yeah that is what I am afraid will bring these movies down,the executives caring more about the links to other movies then making each movie a good movie in it's own right. When the director of Captain America didn't want to do the modern world stuff they didn't make him,they shot it with another director and let him make Captain America as a stand alone movie and just used the link stuff as a wrap around,but if you cut that stuff out Captain America would still work as a stand alone movie with a beginning,middle,and end,so it is is still a film in it's own right and not just a link in a long chain. I hope that isn't what is happening here. Maybe I am just a biased because Hot Fuzz is one of my favorite movies of all time,but I find it worrying that they could have a director this good working on a project for so long and then just have it fall apart. Something feels off about this whole thing and it worries me,that is all.