12 Things We Definitely Know About Future MCU Movies
To Infinity and BEYOND!
If you're a cynic, you may already think you know everything about the future of Marvel's MCU movies: nobody will die, there'll be a Disneyfied sense of fun and basically the studio will coast by on the same safe model it always has. You sir, are a rascal, and no thrashing would be sufficient for you.
Instead, as Kevin Feige so effortlessly and repeatedly assures us, the future is bright. Even beyond the exceptional slate of upcoming movies that lead into Infinity War and their brand new characters and talents, Marvel Studios have plans already tentatively set out. In other words, you're not going to get a rest whether you want one or not.
This much is all broadly good news: comic book movies are successful not because of their genre but because of their creators and their suitability to the cinematic experience. They fit the big screen, and studios would be mad to want to see them disappear. But what specifically are we going to see on Marvel's way to Infinity and beyond?
Here are all of the big things you should expect from forthcoming Marvel movies...
12. Captain Marvel Won’t Cameo Anywhere Fully Formed
According to Kevin Feige, Captain Marvel was initially supposed to appear at the end of Avengers: Age Of Ultron:
“In really early development there was a notion of there’d be a ton of new people. And then it was like, ‘Well we haven’t really introduced them, we don’t know where they’re gonna come from,’ and Joss kind of did not love that idea. It was an early discussion, and then that kind of became just Captain Marvel, and then that felt weird just to have one new person.”
In the end it was determined that her proximity to the inferior Avengers team heading into Civil War would tarnish her image. And that just goes to reinforce what Feige has always said about her not arriving fully formed until her own movie.
So even if Brie Larson is planned to make her bow in Infinity War, don't expect to be in costume. And also don't expect to see her origin story introduced as it was in the comics: Marvel are all too aware of it being too similar to the disastrous Green Lantern.
Incidentally, the director might not have been revealed yet, but it's apparently coming before the end of the summer, according to Feige.