It didn't come as much of a surprise when The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was quietly delayed after being left off of the list of titles set to arrive on Disney Plus in August, and not just because we were only weeks away from the show's scheduled debut and hadn't even seen so much as a trailer yet.
After seemingly being consigned to the history books as the forgotten man of the DCEU, Ray Fisher has found himself right back in the headlines, and it isn't just to do with his role in the Snyder Cut of Justice League.
Once upon a time when the future of the DCEU looked a lot different than it does now, Zack Snyder's Justice League was set to be the first half of a two-part story, with the franchise's all-star team finding themselves the subjects of an overarching five-movie arc, with the second installment originally scheduled to arrive in the summer of 2019 and be tied directly to the events of Ben Affleck's The Batman.
Fans may have been campaigning for an Alita: Battle Angel sequel for a while now, and based on how long it took the Snyder Cut of Justice League to finally happen, there's no chance of them giving up anytime soon. With Disney now in control of the rights, the Mouse House don't really see a second outing as a worthwhile investment after the first movie earned a little over $400m at the box office on a $170m budget, in what is a virtually identical situation to the one that's seen Tron 3 stuck in development hell for a decade.
As well as celebrating its fifteenth anniversary this year, Constantine has also found itself back in the headlines as rumors continue to swirl about a potential sequel. After all, with the DCEU in the midst of a resurgence in creativity, any franchise that has the chance to make a comic book movie with Keanu Reeves in the lead role would be foolish not to jump at the opportunity.
With the vast majority of Hollywood's biggest movies trying to maintain a veil of secrecy right up until they hit the big screen, fans tend to keep themselves occupied in the meantime with speculation and theories regarding what could potentially unfold once the project in question is released.
When Star Wars first came roaring back to the forefront of popular culture with The Force Awakens, it looked like Disney and Lucasfilm were trying to hit that sweet spot between nostalgia and callbacks to the Original Trilogy while still telling a standalone story with an all-new set of characters, despite how many of Episode VII's plot beats felt awfully similar to A New Hope.
Just because the production has yet to get the all-clear to resume shooting after being shut down due to the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic, that doesn't mean that speculation surrounding The Batman has dried up.
Ant-Man ended up playing a much larger and more important role in Avengers: Endgame than many people were expecting, with the Marvel Cinematic Universe's smallest superhero acting as the driving force behind the entire plot when his return from the Quantum Realm set the events in motion that would lead to Earth's Mightiest Heroes embarking on a time-heist.