After the shocking success of Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom over The Marvels, Marvel is probably going glad that there gained’t be any extra competitors from DC till July 2025, when the brand new DCU launches with Superman: Legacy. Sadly, the MCU film that’s going head-to-head with it has simply hit a serious Jonathan Majors-style setback.
Elsewhere, the incoming Echo could be considerably crusing underneath the radar, however a minimum of it’s pressured Marvel to confess one thing we’ve been dying to listen to for a full decade now. Principally, Daredevil followers, your day has come.
Superman: Legacy‘s large competitors shedding its largest star is unhealthy information for Marvel however nice information for the DCU
I do know 2024 has simply begun, however let’s skip forward to July 2025. On the eleventh of that month, DC’s Superman: Legacy arrives, with Marvel’s Thunderbolts releasing on the twenty fifth. For a scorching second there, it appeared like we’d really be having the battle of the Supermen, as David Corenswet’s Kal-El would face off on the field workplace with Steven Yeun’s Sentry, generally known as Marvel’s reply to Supes. Sadly, Yeun is now out of the image, leaving each the Sentry’s MCU future in query and which means Marvel has suffered its second vital casting loss in as many weeks. Seems to be like Legacy‘s shot at cinematic supremacy simply received somewhat simpler…
Echo producer admits he’s “assured” that Netflix’s Daredevil is a part of the Sacred Timeline
Is Netflix’s Daredevil really MCU canon? That’s one thing Marvel has been going forwards and backwards on for the previous 9 years, ever because the present premiered in 2015. Positive, that collection was made by Marvel Tv however then Charlie Cox returned for bonafide Marvel Studios productions like Spider-Man: No Method Residence. And but Marvel’s timeline bible only in the near past implied that solely his post-Section 4 outings had been canon. Fortunately, Echo producer Brad Winderbaum has revealed that he’s “assured” he can now declare, on behalf of the studio, that Daredevil takes place within the Sacred Timeline. That bodes extraordinarily properly for the upcoming, and utterly retooled, Born Once more reboot.
Did Marvel simply drop a serious Younger Avengers tease or am I clutching at straw swords?
A largely standalone animated anthology present it might be, however there’s a lot potential for the MCU’s future hidden within the What If…? season 2 finale. Let’s put apart the Loki crossover of all of it for a minute, although, and give attention to that glowing inexperienced sword Infinity Carter (Captain Carter with the Infinity Stones) wields within the episode. A strong cosmic blade owned by a Hulk? That couldn’t be Marvel’s adaptation of Excelsior, usually utilized by Younger Avenger member Hulkling, might it? Effectively, Ms. Marvel is formally within the means of assembling her “Child Avengers,” and Hulkling’s boyfriend Wiccan is coming on this fall’s Agatha. As Echo has simply reminded us, it truly is all linked.
