Disney CEO Bob Iger has revealed that the MCU will have more of a focus on 'newness,' which could put several planned sequels on the chopping block.
After Disney's recent comments, several rumored sequels in the Marvel Cinematic Universe might not see the light of day. Since kicking off with 2008's Iron Man, the MCU has become the biggest shared franchise in cinema history, with the release of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania marking the 31st film in the MCU. Marvel Studios shows no sign of stopping, as many more films and Disney+ series' are planned for the remainder of the Multiverse Saga.
The ending of Thor: Love & Thunder revealed that Thor would be returning in the MCU's future, though Waititi and Hemsworth revealed that this came as a surprise to them both. After Iger's comments, it's likely that Hemsworth's next appearance in the MCU won't be in Thor 5 but will actually see the Asgardian hero join the Avengers once again in Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars.
2015's Ant-Man and 2018's Ant-Man and the Wasp acted as palette-cleansers for Marvel Studios' audiences, releasing directly after epic Avengers films in an effort to lighten the mood of the MCU. With Quantumania, however, Scott Lang and his size-changing crew found themselves falling victim to the typical Marvel formula, so any dreams of returning to the smaller-scale stories of previous Ant-Man projects might have been dashed.
Eternals 2 Is Increasingly Unlikely Chloé Zhao's Marvel debut, Eternals, quickly became one of Phase 4's most divisive projects, with many scrutinizing the film for trying to do too much in too little time. Eternals introduced thousands of years of history and ten new all-powerful superheroes into the MCU, which was a big ask for its two-and-a-half-hour runtime.
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