New Report Explains Why The MCU Has Been Mostly Bad Since ‘Endgame’
By: bitcoin ethereum news|2025/05/05 02:45:01
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Thunderbolts: Not bad Thunderbolts is currently on pace to be a big win for Marvel, its best critic scores in years, its best audience scores close to ever, and what looks like it’s going to be a solid box office haul. That of course, has been something of a rarity in the post-Endgame era, with perilously few exceptions. Now, a new Wall Street Journal report dives into what apparently happened here, focused around the architect of the MCU, Kevin Feige. Among the highlights: Feige is very much aware about how many things have missed in Phases 4 and 5 (I honestly couldn’t even tell you when they switched over) and is now trying to “course correct.” This will include a new focus on quality in a way that may have lapsed over the years. The more grounded Thunderbolts is being held up as a good example of this, and a good start. But this is of course as few months after the not-great Captain America: Brave New World, which promised to take us back to The Winter Soldier spy days (it did not). Now the pressure is on Fantastic Four to deliver, and whatever is going to happen with the odd-sounding Avengers: Doomsday. SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – JULY 27: Robert Downey Jr. speaks onstage during the Marvel Studios Panel in ... More Hall H at SDCC in San Diego, California on July 27, 2024. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney) The universe being so connected to Feige directly meant he was spread thin and unable to give his personal feedback on projects until it was too late to make changes, when previously he may have indeed been able to steer something in a better directions, as he had many times. Feige was originally against the idea of doing Disney Plus shows, but eventually saw “potential” there along with the move making Disney happy as it attempted to bolster sign-ups. There have been wild swings in both quality, budget and reception, and things do not appear to have stabilized yet, despite some recent wins mainly focused on cheapter shows. Daredevil: Born Again Feige reportedly has a decade-long plan for the X-Men in place after a decade and a half of mainly focusing on The Avengers and related characters. Not to say those will all go away, but it would make sense to fully dive into these new characters it has finally gotten its hands on. Though questions are raised about what’s exactly about to happen with a bunch of FOX-era X-Men coming to Avengers: Doomsday in some multiverse party, when presumably the all over-50 actors are about to be recast with younger variants shortly after. Though it certainly seems like they want at least one to carry over, Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. The idea overall appears to be...make less stuff, but make better stuff. That seems wise, but I think we’re still in a questionable era at the moment, Thunderbolts and Daredevil: Born Again aside, and we may have to get through a bunch of mucky productions before this full reset happens. And the thing I’m worried about the most right now is Avengers Doomsday and Secret Wars. Play Puzzles & Games on Forbes Follow me on Twitter , YouTube , Bluesky and Instagram . Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy . Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/05/04/new-report-explains-why-the-mcu-has-been-mostly-bad-since-endgame/
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