MCU: Predicting Every Marvel Movie From 2020 - 2022

4. November 5, 2021 - Namor

So far, so many sequels. With the vast number of heroes Marvel have already introduced or are about to introduce, that makes up the bulk of the future in the short-mid term (because looking four years ahead isn't long-term in the MCU anymore!).

It needs something new to go with, which Black Widow sort of is, but there should be something really different. One of the things Kevin Feige stated (to Vanity Fair) they're looking for is "worlds that are completely separate — geographically or in time — from the worlds that we’ve already visited.”

Enter Namor the Submariner. Essentially Marvel's Aquaman before DC even had an Aquaman, the potential success of James Wan's film means this one is even more of a possibility. It's a completely different kind of setting to anything we've had in the MCU, being under the sea and all. He can play a more straightforward hero or, as he has done in the comics, be more of an anti-hero, again something Marvel haven't explored too much.

There are potentially some rights issues but, if Marvel wanted to make it happen then it would happen. There were rumours of it last year and, while they've amounted to nothing, the amount of times it's been spoken about and the need to branch out make it a likely option.

Marvel have only released three films in November to date: two Thors and Doctor Strange. That suggests it's a time when they release some of their weirder, more otherworldly properties, which this would certainly be.