Nia DaCosta's The Marvels: Questions about the Viability of the MCU

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Nia DaCosta's The Marvels: Questions about the Viability of the MCU
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The Marvels sees the MCU fall back on one of its recent favorite tricks

Nia DaCosta’s The Marvels opens in theaters this weekend, bringing together Brie Larson , Teyonah Parris , and Iman Vellani as its titular unofficial superhero team , bouncing across the more cosmic portions of the Marvel Cinematic Universe . Running on a $220-plus million budget , and facing what’s being predicted as a pretty lousy $60 million domestic opening , the movie is raising at least a few questions about the ongoing viability of the MCU in its current incarnation.

Hank McCoy, because 2023 is apparently the year where Kelsey Grammer gets to reprise all his most famous roles! Which would all be very exciting, except that this is, by our count, the fourth time Marvel has played the “You know we own the X-Men now, right?” card to build up buzz for its latest project, and the whole thing’s getting a little old.

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