10 Dream MCU Projects Disney Will (Probably) Never Make

Wolverine, Nick Fury and Captain America in a World War II adventure? Oh, what could've been...

by Ewan Paterson
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe just brought its most exciting project yet to fruition earlier this year in Avengers: Endgame, and yet, with all the news surrounding Phase 4, the various Disney+ TV shows and such, one can't help but feel the best is still yet to come.

Make no mistake - while Endgame and Spider-Man: Far From Home hailed the end of some of franchise's most important figures in Captain America, Iron Man and (although unintentionally), Spider-Man as well, Marvel Studios' future couldn't be brighter. Apart from hotly anticipated sequels to Black Panther, Doctor Strange and Thor arriving over the next few years, Disney are also producing several projects based on properties that have never made it to the big screen before, in The Eternals and Shang-Chi.

Factor in reboots for Blade, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, and it's doubtful Marvel fans will find themselves mourning the loss of the aforementioned trio for too long.

Be that as it may, let's not pretend there haven't been missed opportunities. While Marvel are set to produce some of their most adventurous material to date, there are still a whole host of incredible storylines, arcs and relationships audiences just won't get to see - either because of characters having left the series behind, or because their inherent zaniness may prove too great a stumbling block for the films to navigate.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.