Monday, July 22, 2019

MCU Phase Four

Marvel unveiled Phase Four, which will contain six movies and four TV shows (all sadly on Disney Plus, so you'll have to pay extra for them...admittedly it's tempting at this point, with them being in continuity. Dang you).

I'm gonna stick to the movies.

Black Widow - May 1, 2020. Filming right now. Is going to feature Florence Pugh as Yelena (the other Black Widow/Red Widow) and David Harbour as Red Guardian. Will take place in the immediate aftermath of Civil War. I'm both glad and mad it's not Budapest.

The Eternals - November 6, 2020. Features a multi-ethnic ensemble headlined by Angelina Jolie. I'm intrigued. I know very little about the books.

Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - February 12, 2021. Simi Liu will be taking on the title role and The Mandarin will appear for real, played by Thomas Leung. No Fu Manchu, thank the gods (I really think that character is unsalvageable). Liu is Canadian, while I was rather hoping for a British actor for accent reasons. But he's got some solid stunt credits, so I'm hopeful.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness - May 7, 2021. Dear The Verge, it is in not and. This is not a Harry Potter movie and getting it wrong ruins the Lovecraft pun. It's confirmed that this will be a horror movie of sorts.

Thor: Love And Thunder - November 5, 2021. Natalie Portman will be wielding the hammer as Jane Foster/Lady Thor. Directed by Taika Waititi. From that and the title I'm expecting a romantic comedy.

Phase five will start in 2022.

The TV shows, incidentally, are Hawkeye, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, WandaVision, Loki and What If? with the last being a series of short animated episodes that are things that will never happen in the MCU. This is an old comics standard being brought to TV for the first time.

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