Captain America- Brave New World- trailer

Yeah. Disney acquired Fox right before Endgame came out. Their first order of business should have been to fast track Fantastic Four and X-Men movies. Instead it has taken them 6 years to get a Fantastic Four movie finished and what will be 8 years for X-Men, which is supposed to film next year for a 2027 release.

In the mean time we got a shotgun blast of medicore to terrible movies and TV shows with no actual through line, increasing audience disinterest, nonstarter franchises for characters nobody cared about, and diminishing box office.

This is why they gave RDJ Fort Knox to play Doom. Its stunt casting but totally by design. They are banking on bringing people back with some kind of weird nostalgia bait.

I'll also add that we are headed into Doomsday and Secret Wars with NO major build up, either.
I feel this is kind of like the Dennis Allen years
The impulse is to say it didn’t work out so it was a bad idea
But it made sense at the time
The major heroes (and their specific fans) were saturated but there were plenty of threads and also the impulse to broaden fanbase and stories
Made sense but (as I see it) there were 3 main issues
- Marvel had grown a very rigid top down system that didn’t shepherd the new stories well
- a part of fanbase who resisted- in the strongest terms- any attempt to broaden and diversify the stories and characters
- Covid and it’s need for as much content as possible