Susan Storm is supposed to be hot with tits and ass. Namor wants to fuck. So does Doctor Doom. This chick they cast is completely resistible.
Comic Book Movie News: FANTASTIC FOUR UPDATE: ROBERT DOWNEY JR IS DOCTOR DOOM! NEW THEME SONG RELEASED
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How many times are they going to remake this movie?
This would be so...OFF DA FUCKIN' CHAIN!!!
And absolutely make up for that terrible 2007 film
Galactus as a...CLOUD???
GET DA FUCK OUTTA HERE!!!
After campaigning to play The Thing in 'The Fantastic Four,' David Krumholtz aims for different Marvel character
David Krumholtz says he met with 'Fantastic Four' director about playing The Thing in upcoming superhero movie — 'I've never been so bold in a meeting before, just begging for the role' — but now he has his sights set on another Marvel character.
David Krumholtz campaigned to play The Thing in The Fantastic Four — and now aims to play a different Marvel character
"I've never been so bold in a meeting before, just begging for the role, just straight up selling the s--- out of it," the "Oppenheimer" actor tells EW.By Wesley Stenzel
Published on February 20, 2024
The Oppenheimer and Santa Clause star, who spoke to EW about his upcoming film Lousy Carter, revealed that he campaigned for the role of Ben Grimm/The Thing in The Fantastic Four. “It's been a big, sort of unabashedly craven goal of mine to be part of the MCU in some way. I met [director] Matt Shakman for Ben Grimm,” he tells EW.
David Krumholtz, Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm/The Thing in 'Fantastic Four'.
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Krumholtz thinks that his brief online campaign to join the project secured the meeting with the upcoming film's director. “I only met him on the strength of a Twitter post or an Instagram post that I then took down two hours after I posted it,” he says. “I was embarrassed. My post said, ‘I just want to be in the conversation.’ And it was a picture of the Thing, and Matt saw it somehow. And I had a meeting with him and we discussed it. And I've never been so bold in a meeting before, just begging for the role, just straight up selling the s--- out of it, the idea of how committed and passionate I was for it. But obviously that didn't happen.”
The actor’s passion for the role comes from a lifelong comic book fandom. “I grew up reading Marvel comics. It was all I read,” he says. “I wasn't a big DC guy. I just read Marvel and it became an obsession. I even worked at a comic book store before I became an actor, and I got paid in comics. I was 11. So when Marvel started making films, it was mind-blowing. I remember thinking when I was a kid reading these comics that these would be amazing films, but they couldn't do them. There wasn't the technology to do them properly. And suddenly there was, and suddenly they were getting it all right. And they were true to the costumes and true to every little detail.”
Krumholtz has no ill will toward The Bear star Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who was officially announced as the MCU’s Ben Grimm last week. “I think Ebon Moss-Bachrach is a really great choice,” he says. “It makes way more sense in some ways.”
Mole Man.
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Now, Krumholtz has his sights set on another Fantastic Four character: the villainous Mole Man, who served as the antagonist in the super quartet’s very first comic book issue in 1961. “It’s not a joke at all,” Krumholtz says of his recent social media post campaigning for Mole Man. “I mean, it's a shoe-in for Mole Man, isn't it? But I don't know. I'll do anything Marvel tells me to. I'll probably end up playing like a superhero's therapist. Let's face it. There's slim pickings for guys like me in that world, unfortunately. I'm old and I'm not in any kind of acceptable shape. So we'll see how that works out, if it works out at all.”
Krumholtz’s new indie dramedy Lousy Carter hits theaters and on-demand platforms March 29. Watch the first trailer here.
I'M DONE!!!
If these other two characters show up,
And this scene is actually filmed...
How Marvel Is Quietly Retooling Amid Superhero Fatigue
The studio’s golden box office aura has been dented, but chief architect Kevin Feige isn’t scrapping his years-long cinematic universe plan, just refining it: “They’re not going to give up,” says an insider.
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How Marvel Is Quietly Retooling Amid Superhero Fatigue
The studio’s golden box office aura has been dented, but chief architect Kevin Feige isn’t scrapping his years-long cinematic universe plan, just refining it: “They’re not going to give up,” says an insider.BY BORYS KIT, AARON COUCH
FEBRUARY 21, 2024 6:45AM
ILLUSTRATION BY KAGAN MCLEOD
But the Disney division is in the midst of a pretty darn good February, all things considered, despite the general gloom that surrounds the superhero genre as of late. The Super Bowl trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine became the most-watched trailer of all time, with 365 million views in 24 hours. Yes, Disney’s math includes the 123 million people who tuned in for the game, which included just 30 seconds of the trailer, but Super Bowl fudging or not, the clip’s reach was an encouraging number for a studio whose last movie, The Marvels, became the lowest-grossing in the MCU’s 33-film run, hitting just $206 million globally.
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Next came the Valentine’s Day unveiling of the cast of The Fantastic Four — Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn, coupled with retro art teasing a 1960s setting for the movie. (The Fantastic Four are a cornerstone of the Marvel mythos, with writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby introducing the team in 1961’s Fantastic Four No. 1, the comic that would initiate the Marvel Universe, so the symbolic launch of the new team carries a lot of weight for the film division. This will be the third incarnation of the Fantastic Four to hit the big screen, not counting the infamous Roger Corman version.)
A day later, Marvel launched the trailer for X-Men ’97, a revival of the 1990s cartoon that debuts in March. The trailer set an internal Disney record as the biggest launch for an animated series on Disney+, ahead of other Marvel shows such as What If …? and any animated Star Wars series.
These public-facing moves come as studio boss Kevin Feige recalibrates the creative direction behind the scenes. Early in February, the company completed reshoots for Agatha: Darkhold Diaries, the WandaVision spinoff starring Kathryn Hahn that is expected to hit Disney+ this fall. The company usually budgets five days of reshoots into the schedule, but the studio completed the work in just one, fueling a sunny outlook around the show internally, according to sources associated with the series.
The studio also quietly hired Eric Pearson to polish the script for Fantastic Four, which will shoot this summer in London. Pearson is a company stalwart who worked on Thor: Ragnarok and Black Widow and has a reputation for taking projects over the finish line. The stakes for that movie are high, as the studio is still searching for characters and actors who can carry its universe forward after the exits of Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans.
Marvel also hired Joanna Calo, the showrunner of acclaimed FX series The Bear, to work on the script for Thunderbolts, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The film will begin shooting in March in Atlanta. Her hiring adds a flair of prestige to the project, which stars Florence Pugh and — according to a source who has read previous drafts of the script — centers on villains and antiheroes going on a mission that was supposed to end with their deaths.
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Marvel is also cleaning up the creative mess left in the wake of Jonathan Majors, the once-rising actor cast to play the lynchpin villain role in the next Avengers movies but who in December was found guilty of reckless assault in the third degree and harassment in a Manhattan court after a domestic incident with his ex-partner, a movement coach he met while working on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Marvel dropped Majors hours after the conviction and is rewriting those movies, which will now either minimize the character or excise him entirely. The first of the new Avengers movies, due out in 2026, was initially titled Avengers: The Kang Dynasty but will be getting a new title to remove the character’s name, though sources say that even before Majors’ conviction, the studio was making moves to minimize the character after Quantumania underperformed, grossing $476 million.
On the TV side, Marvel has been reorganizing its operations to allow for greater control from showrunners, a move made after the critical failure of the expensive Samuel L. Jackson spy series Secret Invasion, which sidelined executive producer Kyle Bradstreet after a year, with various creative factions vying for influence in his wake. The show had about 2.5 billion minutes of viewing over its six-week run, per Nielsen, in the bottom third of Marvel’s live-action Disney+ offerings so far.
“The focus is internal this year,” says one insider of all the tinkering going on behind the scenes.
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Execs are not calling it a reboot, not even a soft one, but more of a creative retooling. It’s no secret that since the 2019 Avengers: Endgame, the company was asked to scale up in an unprecedented way to feed its fledgling streaming service, Disney+, then a top priority for Disney, which was in the thick of the streaming wars. First under the direction of Disney CEO Bob Iger and, later, his short-lived successor, Bob Chapek, Marvel expanded into TV series and animation, with the goal of the MCU becoming a place with a seemingly endless procession of year-round releases. It was an ask that proved too unwieldy to sustain.
“Some of our studios lost a little focus. So the first step that we’ve taken is that we’ve reduced volume,” Iger said on a Feb. 7 earnings call. “We’ve reduced output, particularly at Marvel,” in order to ensure “the films you’re making can be even better.”
As the Hollywood strikes ended in November, the studio delayed Captain America: New World Order seven months to Feb. 14, 2025, to give it time to undergo reshoots. Iger touted Captain America 4, starring Anthony Mackie, as among the 2025 Disney releases he was most excited for during the earnings call. He did not mention Blade, leading to speculation it will be moved from its November 2025 date; it’s unlikely Marvel will release four films that year given Iger’s mandate to slim down.
The dual writers and actors strikes, while costly to Hollywood, ironically gave Marvel breathing space. It was able to reschedule its movies so that only Deadpool & Wolverine will be released in 2024. And only two series — Echo and Agatha — are bowing on Disney+ this year. Other movies remain in the script stage, while TV shows (such as Ironheart) have filmed, but have no release date in sight. It is all designed to give creatives some breathing room and give audiences the chance to miss the MCU, just a little bit.
“They’re not going to give up,” says a source who has worked with Marvel over the past year. “They want to make something great.”
Julia Garner Cast as Silver Surfer in the Upcoming 'Fantastic Four' Movie
BYJUSTIN KLAWANSPUBLISHED 4 HOURS AGO
The movie stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as the heroic foursome.
Marvel Studios has already revealed its quartet for its upcoming adaptation of The Fantastic Four, and now another A-list star has joined the cast. Julia Garner has been cast in the film as the Silver Surfer, according to Deadline. Garner will reportedly portray Shalla-Bal, a version of the character from the comics, and will star in the film alongside Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/the Invisible Woman, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/the Thing, and Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/the Human Torch.
Plot details of The Fantastic Four remain, unsurprisingly, very slim. However, rumors abound that the film will be set sometime in the past, given that the original casting announcement from Marvel featured concept art that appeared to be straight out of the 1960s. This is also not the first time that the Silver Surfer will be seen onscreen - the character appeared in 20th Century Fox's Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer in 2007. In that film, a male version of the Silver Surfer first battled the Fantastic Four before teaming up to stop the supervillain Galactus. It's unclear what direction Garner's version of the character will go, but production on the film is reportedly set to start soon.
Julia Garner Cast as Silver Surfer in the Upcoming 'Fantastic Four' Movie
Julia Garner has been tapped to play Silver Surfer in the upcoming Fantastic Four movie, opposite Pedro Pascal and Joseph Quinn.
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I knew itJulia Garner Cast as Silver Surfer in the Upcoming 'Fantastic Four' Movie
BYJUSTIN KLAWANS
PUBLISHED 4 HOURS AGO
The movie stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as the heroic foursome.
Marvel Studios has already revealed its quartet for its upcoming adaptation of The Fantastic Four, and now another A-list star has joined the cast. Julia Garner has been cast in the film as the Silver Surfer, according to Deadline. Garner will reportedly portray Shalla-Bal, a version of the character from the comics, and will star in the film alongside Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/the Invisible Woman, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/the Thing, and Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/the Human Torch.
Plot details of The Fantastic Four remain, unsurprisingly, very slim. However, rumors abound that the film will be set sometime in the past, given that the original casting announcement from Marvel featured concept art that appeared to be straight out of the 1960s. This is also not the first time that the Silver Surfer will be seen onscreen - the character appeared in 20th Century Fox's Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer in 2007. In that film, a male version of the Silver Surfer first battled the Fantastic Four before teaming up to stop the supervillain Galactus. It's unclear what direction Garner's version of the character will go, but production on the film is reportedly set to start soon.
Julia Garner Cast as Silver Surfer in the Upcoming 'Fantastic Four' Movie
Julia Garner has been tapped to play Silver Surfer in the upcoming Fantastic Four movie, opposite Pedro Pascal and Joseph Quinn.
Guess the curse of bad Fantastic Four movies continue.Julia Garner Cast as Silver Surfer in the Upcoming 'Fantastic Four' Movie
BYJUSTIN KLAWANS
PUBLISHED 4 HOURS AGO
The movie stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as the heroic foursome.
Marvel Studios has already revealed its quartet for its upcoming adaptation of The Fantastic Four, and now another A-list star has joined the cast. Julia Garner has been cast in the film as the Silver Surfer, according to Deadline. Garner will reportedly portray Shalla-Bal, a version of the character from the comics, and will star in the film alongside Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/the Invisible Woman, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/the Thing, and Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/the Human Torch.
Plot details of The Fantastic Four remain, unsurprisingly, very slim. However, rumors abound that the film will be set sometime in the past, given that the original casting announcement from Marvel featured concept art that appeared to be straight out of the 1960s. This is also not the first time that the Silver Surfer will be seen onscreen - the character appeared in 20th Century Fox's Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer in 2007. In that film, a male version of the Silver Surfer first battled the Fantastic Four before teaming up to stop the supervillain Galactus. It's unclear what direction Garner's version of the character will go, but production on the film is reportedly set to start soon.
Julia Garner Cast as Silver Surfer in the Upcoming 'Fantastic Four' Movie
Julia Garner has been tapped to play Silver Surfer in the upcoming Fantastic Four movie, opposite Pedro Pascal and Joseph Quinn.
Julia Garner Cast as Silver Surfer in the Upcoming 'Fantastic Four' Movie
BYJUSTIN KLAWANS
PUBLISHED 4 HOURS AGO
The movie stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as the heroic foursome.
Marvel Studios has already revealed its quartet for its upcoming adaptation of The Fantastic Four, and now another A-list star has joined the cast. Julia Garner has been cast in the film as the Silver Surfer, according to Deadline. Garner will reportedly portray Shalla-Bal, a version of the character from the comics, and will star in the film alongside Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/the Invisible Woman, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/the Thing, and Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/the Human Torch.
Plot details of The Fantastic Four remain, unsurprisingly, very slim. However, rumors abound that the film will be set sometime in the past, given that the original casting announcement from Marvel featured concept art that appeared to be straight out of the 1960s. This is also not the first time that the Silver Surfer will be seen onscreen - the character appeared in 20th Century Fox's Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer in 2007. In that film, a male version of the Silver Surfer first battled the Fantastic Four before teaming up to stop the supervillain Galactus. It's unclear what direction Garner's version of the character will go, but production on the film is reportedly set to start soon.
Julia Garner Cast as Silver Surfer in the Upcoming 'Fantastic Four' Movie
Julia Garner has been tapped to play Silver Surfer in the upcoming Fantastic Four movie, opposite Pedro Pascal and Joseph Quinn.
Everyone calm down
It's going to be fine
Kathleen probably told Feige to "put a chick in the Silver Surfer role,and make her gay!!!"
Kathleen probably told Feige to "put a chick in the Silver Surfer role,and make her gay!!!"
It's gonna be all good bro
But I had to console and then embarrass dudes online who claim to be comic book fans who didn't know there were different heralds
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I used to dream about seeing Marvel Comics on the big screen. Now I'm like fuck it I'll probably never watch this bullshit ever again. I can't even watch Avengers Endgame without seeing the agenda in it.
Yall dudes REALLY need to chill the f**k out...
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Take a deep breath....
Its all going to be fine
Norrin Radd's Silver Surfer Rumored to Appear in The Fantastic Four Reboot
A new rumor claims that the original Silver Surfer will still appear in the Fantastic Four despite Julia Garner's casting.
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THE FANTASTIC FOUR Rumored To Introduce Norrin Radd Alongside Julia Garner's Silver Surfer
We recently got word that Julia Garner had been cast as the Shalla-Bal version of the Silver Surfer in The Fantastic Four, but the MCU reboot will reportedly also introduce Norrin Radd...
Take a deep breath....
Its all going to be fine
It ain't super hero fatigue its bad movie fatigue. It's also put a chic in it and make it gay fatigue. How many times can we see the women are all smart and the men are stupid where the genre is based on in an industry largely supported by men.How Marvel Is Quietly Retooling Amid Superhero Fatigue
The studio’s golden box office aura has been dented, but chief architect Kevin Feige isn’t scrapping his years-long cinematic universe plan, just refining it: “They’re not going to give up,” says an insider.
How Marvel Is Quietly Retooling Amid Superhero Fatigue
The studio’s golden box office aura has been dented, but chief architect Kevin Feige isn’t scrapping his years-long cinematic universe plan, just refining it: “They’re not going to give up,” says an insider.
BY BORYS KIT, AARON COUCH
FEBRUARY 21, 2024 6:45AM
ILLUSTRATION BY KAGAN MCLEOD
Just over a year ago, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was set to take Marvel Studios to the next level. A new villain was going to be introduced, setting the stage for several years’ worth of storytelling. And the movie itself was a giant-sizing of a franchise that was previously modest in scope. Instead, the Peyton Reed-directed movie heralded a year’s worth of missteps, box office blunders and PR nightmares. It was all uncharted territory for Marvel, which had steadily been generating box office gold for 15 years.
But the Disney division is in the midst of a pretty darn good February, all things considered, despite the general gloom that surrounds the superhero genre as of late. The Super Bowl trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine became the most-watched trailer of all time, with 365 million views in 24 hours. Yes, Disney’s math includes the 123 million people who tuned in for the game, which included just 30 seconds of the trailer, but Super Bowl fudging or not, the clip’s reach was an encouraging number for a studio whose last movie, The Marvels, became the lowest-grossing in the MCU’s 33-film run, hitting just $206 million globally.
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Next came the Valentine’s Day unveiling of the cast of The Fantastic Four — Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn, coupled with retro art teasing a 1960s setting for the movie. (The Fantastic Four are a cornerstone of the Marvel mythos, with writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby introducing the team in 1961’s Fantastic Four No. 1, the comic that would initiate the Marvel Universe, so the symbolic launch of the new team carries a lot of weight for the film division. This will be the third incarnation of the Fantastic Four to hit the big screen, not counting the infamous Roger Corman version.)
A day later, Marvel launched the trailer for X-Men ’97, a revival of the 1990s cartoon that debuts in March. The trailer set an internal Disney record as the biggest launch for an animated series on Disney+, ahead of other Marvel shows such as What If …? and any animated Star Wars series.
These public-facing moves come as studio boss Kevin Feige recalibrates the creative direction behind the scenes. Early in February, the company completed reshoots for Agatha: Darkhold Diaries, the WandaVision spinoff starring Kathryn Hahn that is expected to hit Disney+ this fall. The company usually budgets five days of reshoots into the schedule, but the studio completed the work in just one, fueling a sunny outlook around the show internally, according to sources associated with the series.
The studio also quietly hired Eric Pearson to polish the script for Fantastic Four, which will shoot this summer in London. Pearson is a company stalwart who worked on Thor: Ragnarok and Black Widow and has a reputation for taking projects over the finish line. The stakes for that movie are high, as the studio is still searching for characters and actors who can carry its universe forward after the exits of Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans.
Marvel also hired Joanna Calo, the showrunner of acclaimed FX series The Bear, to work on the script for Thunderbolts, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The film will begin shooting in March in Atlanta. Her hiring adds a flair of prestige to the project, which stars Florence Pugh and — according to a source who has read previous drafts of the script — centers on villains and antiheroes going on a mission that was supposed to end with their deaths.
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Marvel is also cleaning up the creative mess left in the wake of Jonathan Majors, the once-rising actor cast to play the lynchpin villain role in the next Avengers movies but who in December was found guilty of reckless assault in the third degree and harassment in a Manhattan court after a domestic incident with his ex-partner, a movement coach he met while working on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Marvel dropped Majors hours after the conviction and is rewriting those movies, which will now either minimize the character or excise him entirely. The first of the new Avengers movies, due out in 2026, was initially titled Avengers: The Kang Dynasty but will be getting a new title to remove the character’s name, though sources say that even before Majors’ conviction, the studio was making moves to minimize the character after Quantumania underperformed, grossing $476 million.
On the TV side, Marvel has been reorganizing its operations to allow for greater control from showrunners, a move made after the critical failure of the expensive Samuel L. Jackson spy series Secret Invasion, which sidelined executive producer Kyle Bradstreet after a year, with various creative factions vying for influence in his wake. The show had about 2.5 billion minutes of viewing over its six-week run, per Nielsen, in the bottom third of Marvel’s live-action Disney+ offerings so far.
“The focus is internal this year,” says one insider of all the tinkering going on behind the scenes.
ADVERTISEMENT
Execs are not calling it a reboot, not even a soft one, but more of a creative retooling. It’s no secret that since the 2019 Avengers: Endgame, the company was asked to scale up in an unprecedented way to feed its fledgling streaming service, Disney+, then a top priority for Disney, which was in the thick of the streaming wars. First under the direction of Disney CEO Bob Iger and, later, his short-lived successor, Bob Chapek, Marvel expanded into TV series and animation, with the goal of the MCU becoming a place with a seemingly endless procession of year-round releases. It was an ask that proved too unwieldy to sustain.
“Some of our studios lost a little focus. So the first step that we’ve taken is that we’ve reduced volume,” Iger said on a Feb. 7 earnings call. “We’ve reduced output, particularly at Marvel,” in order to ensure “the films you’re making can be even better.”
As the Hollywood strikes ended in November, the studio delayed Captain America: New World Order seven months to Feb. 14, 2025, to give it time to undergo reshoots. Iger touted Captain America 4, starring Anthony Mackie, as among the 2025 Disney releases he was most excited for during the earnings call. He did not mention Blade, leading to speculation it will be moved from its November 2025 date; it’s unlikely Marvel will release four films that year given Iger’s mandate to slim down.
The dual writers and actors strikes, while costly to Hollywood, ironically gave Marvel breathing space. It was able to reschedule its movies so that only Deadpool & Wolverine will be released in 2024. And only two series — Echo and Agatha — are bowing on Disney+ this year. Other movies remain in the script stage, while TV shows (such as Ironheart) have filmed, but have no release date in sight. It is all designed to give creatives some breathing room and give audiences the chance to miss the MCU, just a little bit.
“They’re not going to give up,” says a source who has worked with Marvel over the past year. “They want to make something great.”
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