Not to be confused with the other Ultimates comic (which inspired a great deal of the MCU's first phase), Al Ewing and Kenneth Rocafort's Ultimates series based around a team of cosmic Marvel good guys taking on Galactus is taylor-made for an MCU with the purple planet-eater as a threat - particularly with the line-up it boasts.
Featuring Captain Marvel, Black Panther, Spectrum (who could yet appear in next year's MCU prequel), Blue Marvel and America Chavez, the first volume in the series detailed the team's attempts to take down one of the oldest and gravest threats the cosmos has ever seen: Galactus. The character is more a force of nature than an out and out villain, so already there's an interesting ethical dilemma to discuss and it features some of the most interesting Marvel heroes going too.
Done right, a film inspired by this particular arc could be the centrepiece to a future MCU phase. The presences of Black Panther and Captain Marvel alone already present a major draw, and when you throw Galactus into the mix as well, an Ultimates film looks all the more appealing.
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.
