After Spiderman: Far From Home (did I not make a post about that one? I liked it) we were left technically not knowing what would come next from Marvel. Given the massive climax that was Endgame, it made sense to give us a little breathing room. But that billion-dollar dream machine that lets Disney print money is gearing up with a boatload of announcements.
First, the obvious ones:
Black Widow is really happening.
Doctor Strange's sequel is called Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, which I AM IN FOR. (They say it'll be "scary" which... we'll see, but if that means really leaning into Lovecraftian elements, I'm excited.) Scarlet Witch will be in this, which seems a good fit.
Thor will be the first Marvel series to make it to four movies with Thor: Love and Thunder, which will bring back Natalie Portman as Jane Foster - and specifically the arc in which Jane becomes Thor (in the sense of gaining the divine powers - was Steve Rogers technically Thor for a bit during Endgame?) Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, and Taika Waititi as director are all returning, which sounds great to me!
The Eternals are also going to be a thing, with Salma Hayek, Bryan Tyree Henry, Angelina Jolie, Kumail Nanjiani, and Richard Madden starring. This is some hipster-level obscure Marvel stuff, but it's the MCU - you'll know them well soon enough (assuming this doesn't go all Inhumans on us.)
Biggest shock? There's a new motherfucking BLADE movie starring MAHERSHALA ALI. This means a few things: first, sorry Wesley Snipes, whose movies were actually the first successful Marvel-based films. Also it means that we're officially freeing up people in the Netflix shows to play other roles. If only they'd saved Mads Mikkelsen until after they got the rights to Fantastic Four back, because he'd be the perfect Doctor Doom! Anyway, point is: Mahershala Ali is going to be a badass dhampir (look it up) vampire-hunter.
Moving on: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings will be the Shang-Chi movie, and will apparently finally show us the real Mandarin that Ben Kingsley was so infamously pretending to be in Iron Man 3. (A move I found delightful, though I know some people were very pissed.) (UPDATE: the Mandarin is being played by TONY LEUNG, which is awesome.)
Is that everything? No! Apparently there are some details about the Disney+ shows, like how yes, the split-timeline version of Loki is how there's going to be a show for him. But I ain't getting yet another streaming subscription, so I guess I won't be seeing that on Disney's vertical-integration platform.
Anyway, fitting that Comic-Con is seeing Marvel slam so many things down onto the table that they've been keeping secret for so long.
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