Of course, those familiar with Namor over the last decade will also likely be aware of the snafu revolving around the character's on screen rights. At first they were with Universal, then Marvel, but then not with Marvel, and then somehow with Marvel again. Point being, the whole situation is a tad convoluted and it's only recently that the House of Ideas has publicly declared the character's availability.
Although Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige said that Namor was "definitively" at Universal back in 2013, chatter in the years since has indicated pretty much the exact opposite. Feige again weighed into the topic of Namor in 2018 while talking to IGN, stating that "there’s a way to probably figure it out but it does have... it’s not as a clean or clear as the majority of the other characters."
It seems as though whatever Marvel had to work out with those producers still attached to the Namor license has been worked out, but we're still waiting on a definitive answer.
Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson mysteriously deleted a tweet referencing Namor earlier in the year, and if the Sub-Mariner's situation is even vaguely similar to the Hulk's, it could be that Marvel are able to feature the character in other MCU films, but without the prospect of a solo feature to come.
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.
