10 Greatest Marvel Movies Never Made

In 2008, Iron Man changed the movie industry. This was the birth of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the birth of the shared universe craze, and ultimately the first step to a decade of unrivalled storytelling and eventually unquestionable superhero fatigue in 2023.

Since then there have been a further 30 MCU movies released, with countless more yet to come. Then consider the 13 X-Men and Deadpool movies, the first five Spider-Man movies, Fantastic Four, Blade, Ghost Rider, and many, many more. Marvel has been a machine when it comes to cinematic releases over the years.

But for each movie that made it onto the big screen, there have been those Marvel stories that ultimately never saw the light of day. Like anything else, there have been projects that never got off the ground, that found insurmountable obstacles in their way, and for one reason or another were scrapped.

There are literally countless Marvel movies that were cancelled before anyone even knew they existed, and of the ones where details have been released, some you can't argue with the decision to scrap. Others however, had the potential to be something genuinely brilliant, and though fans will never see them, there's always time to look back and think about what could have been.

The Phase Four slate that Kevin Feige originally laid out at San Diego Comic Con 2019 was radically different from what fans actually got. Thanks to the worldwide pandemic, and numerous production delays and reshuffles, everything was different.

Phase Three was also subject to change after Feige's announcement, in that it initially featured an Inhumans movie. Slated to debut between what was then Infinity War Part 1 and Part 2, the movie never actually released, ultimately being replaced by the TV series that is still to this day by far the worst thing the MCU has ever put out.

At this point in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the franchise just didn't miss, and it's hard to believe the studio would have taken such a popular property from the comics and made a poor movie. On the smaller platform, the TV show failed, but on the big screen and under the full spotlight, you have to believe that Inhumans would have been given the same treatment as any other MCU movie franchise.

The future of the Inhumans in the MCU is still unclear. Kamala Khan has been confirmed to be a mutant rather than an Inhuman in the franchise, and yet, the race has been confirmed to exist. Aside from their existence throughout Agents of SHIELD, Black Bolt's appearance in the Multiverse of Madness has potentially left the door open for an MCU future.