![]() Phase 3 of the MCU consisted of 11 films. Part of that was the pandemic, but still. These shows and movies overlapped to the extent that May was the only month in all of 2021 that did not have new Marvel Studios content. There were five Marvel shows and four Marvel movies released in 2021, all of which will presumably factor into future shows and movies in one way or another. Instead of two to three movies a year, as was the norm in Phases 1-3, the content is so constant it can be challenging to keep up with. (Marvel Studio)Right now, it kind of does. "The Avengers" set up Thanos, who would not be played by Josh Brolin until 2014's "Guardians of the Galaxy." Marvel Studios may not have had a plan, but it never felt like they didn't have a plan. The first "Iron Man" movie set up "The Avengers" eventually becoming a thing. And Robert Downey Jr.'s first MCU post-credits stinger, where he appeared in "The Incredible Hulk," was something that came together on the fly because he just happened to be in town when that film was shooting.īut try and tell me that Feige and the rest of the brains at Marvel Studios didn't at least have an inkling of where they'd like to go. And obviously that's true there was a time when films like "Guardians of the Galaxy 2" and "Ant-Man and the Wasp" were not on the docket for Phase 3, until those characters became popular enough for the studio to invest more in them. Depending on how movies did, they adjusted. The Russo Brothers, who directed the latter two "Avengers" and "Captain America" movies, recently revealed that Marvel Studios didn't have a set-in-stone plan for their early run of films. ![]() What worries me about the MCU is its storytelling. Despite fans lobbying for a " Black Widow" movie as early as 2015, the disorganized DC Extended Universe beat Marvel to the punch in making a superhero movie with a female character in the lead 2017's "Wonder Woman" came out a full two years before Marvel took the leap in its 21st film with Brie Larson in "Captain Marvel." The fact that Marvel is now including superheroes with different backgrounds is a great thing, and without a doubt one of the best aspects of Phase 4. Marvel Studios lagged way behind during the first three Phases of its movie universe in terms of representation, and it feels as if it's just now starting to make serious strides. Let's be clear here: in some ways the MCU is not big enough. Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe buckling under its own weight? ![]() Having watched both " Moon Knight's" finale and "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness," I keep finding myself circling back to the same question: is the MCU getting too big to tell a coherent interconnected story? It's the biggest media empire of our time. Yes, I'm drawing a parallel between the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Rome, and no I'm not sorry about it. They say that all great empires expand until they reach a point where they can no longer sustain their own weight, at which point they crumble. I've been religiously following the Marvel Cinematic Universe since the first "Iron Man" movie dropped back in 2008, and was a fan of this stuff since long before that thanks to the 2000s-era "Spider-Man" and "X-Men" films. And something about Phase 4 of the MCU just feels. With both the season finale of the Disney+ limited series "Moon Knight" and " Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" releasing in close succession, it's felt like the Marvel deluge has been fast and furious of late.īut then, doesn't that describe just about every week nowadays? It's been a busy couple of weeks for Marvel. This story originally appeared on Winter is Coming.
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