Marvel: 12 Biggest MCU Rumours You Need To Know (Sept 17th)

It goes without saying that Marvel fans are some of the most vociferous when it comes to hoovering up new information about upcoming MCU movies. Like the Star Wars community, there seems to be less of a problem with spoilers and leaks, with the culture of theorising and rumour-mongering actively feeding into the hype build.

LucasFilm knew the precise value of that community as far back as the 70s: leaking real information and feeding out their own fake rumours. And it didn't exactly hurt their box office, did it?

With 8 announced films yet to be released (and The Inhumans in semi-development), now is a great time to be a Marvel Movie Rumour fan, and there are some incredible suggestions for how the rest of Phase 3 is going to play out.

Here are the most recent and biggest scoops and potential spoilers for the MCU's forthcoming films. Inevitably, SPOILERS will follow. Well, maybe they will.

Depends how true the rumours are, doesn't it?

Thanks to a cheeky picture posted by Robert Downey Jr, the Marvelverse has started talking about the possibility of Iron Man 4 again.

The Iron Man star posed with Jon Favreau, Kevin Feige, Tom Holland and the Russo brothers, and mentioned a New Project without specifically dropping the Iron Man name, but surely it has to be, doesn't it?

Rating: 5/10

At this stage it's literally 50/50 on whether Iron Man 4 will happen. Robert Downey Jr has dropped hints in the past (and he's also proved himself willing to extend his contract for the right money), and the series makes a lot of money, so Marvel would be foolish to rule it out.

It would be interesting to have Spider-Man involved, particularly with Stark's relationship as his mentor already established, and there's more than enough narrative potential in the Ten Rings storyline to tie it up in a fourth film.

But whether this picture has anything to do with that... Who knows.