If you’re wondering why Iron Man screenwriters Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby aren’t penning the sequel, well, you’re not alone.

Luckily, though, there may be simple explanation: They’re in talks with Marvel Studios to tackle another property. However, they won’t say which one — or ones.

“There are some really juicy [movies] that we are very much talking intensely with Marvel about,” Fergus tells MTV’s Splash Page. “We’re like, ‘We’re the right guys for this one.’ We’re interested in working on a bunch of these other Marvel projections and everything in the Marvel canon is fair game. We have a lot of ideas about all this, but until they officially ask us to come do one of these we’ll keep our mouths closed about the actual ideas. It’s moving along nicely but nothing official yet. But, yes, we are planning on working on some of those movies. That much I’ll say.”

As the Splash Page points out, all of the films on Marvel’s announced slate — Iron Man 2, The First Avenger: Captain America, The Avengers, Thor, Ant-Man – supposedly have writers already. So, is this a creative shuffle, or is the studio planning beyond 2011?

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