Marvel Studios finally announces cast for something new and highly anticipated. fantastic four The film, released last week, stars Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm. everyone seems to agree That this movie could and should be the perfect opportunity to gently reset the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After all, this is about an iconic superhero team and could be a period piece, both of which should be able to roam freely without worrying too much about his established MCU canon. (Although I enjoyed the movie, it held me back) marvels pretty).
But we’re not the only ones who think so. hollywood reporter I published an article today Marvel has hinted that it is “quietly restructuring” its MCU plans after box office struggles. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and marvels,plus Kung actor Jonathan Majors’ reckless assault conviction, was set to be a major villain in future MCU movies.According to this THR However, even before the conviction, Marvel had plans to “minimize” Major and Kang, presumably as part of this “realignment” and the 2026 “realignment.” Avengers: Kang Dynasty It will now have a new name.
There’s no way to know if this was always planned or not, but it’s certainly useful either way.with fantastic four With the cast also confirmed and generally well-received as far as we can tell, Marvel is in a position to realign their plans around that team, which would be a good idea to introduce a character who is perhaps the most famous villain in film. It also means that you have an excuse. Marvel Comics History: Doctor Doom, the Fantastic Four’s nemesis, has apparently not been cast yet (again, as far as we know).
if fantastic four is actually a period drama set in the ’60s, and Marvel gave him some sort of human origin in that movie, making Doctor Doom a fully formed supervillain who can be used whenever and wherever he wants. can appear as – for example, once called Kang dynasty.Furthermore, next the avengers Subsequent films are reportedly still called secret warsSince it was a comic book event closely tied to Doom anyway, it might be even easier to make that movie all about him fighting the Fantastic Four and the Avengers (unless Marvel follows up with a second film) secret wars In the event, Doom was more or less the good guy, which would be a lot of fun).
Hell, Doom was even a megalomaniac time traveler in the comics, and since that was Kang’s biggest hook, Marvel said that “future versions of Doctor Doom erased all past versions of Kang.” Some problems could be solved with one line of conversation, such as: Multiverse to eliminate competition. ” Boom, your old villain is gone and your new villain is clearly bigger and badder than ever.
Whether this was always the plan or not, Marvel is in the perfect position to make it happen Seem It was, and that might be the most important thing anyway.