Disney Plus isn’t doing its best to endear itself to Marvel fans right now. After announcing it’s wiping three Marvel Studios series from its library, an acclaimed and star-studded new superhero series that’s swimming in MCU talent is going sadly unchampioned as it makes its streaming premiere. Meanwhile, a veteran of the Marvel multiverse is finally making their live-action DC debut in The Flash. Last but not least, a Phase Four favorite drops perhaps the least surprising news in the franchise’s history.
Even two MCU alums and Avengers: The Kang Dynasty‘s director can’t save this Disney Plus show from sinking into the content pit
You would think that American Born Chinese would be enjoying an insane amount of promotion right now — it stars not one, but two Oscar-winning actors who just made waves in Hollywood thanks to Everything, Everywhere All at Once and it even combines the high-concept action of that movie with a Marvel-like comic book-inspired storyline. Plus, it comes to us from Shang-Chi (and upcoming Avengers: The Kang Dynasty director) Daniel Destin Cretton. And yet all we’re hearing is crickets as it makes it arrival on Disney Plus. Now you know about it, do yourself a favor and stream all eight episodes now… Before, who knows, it vanishes from the site completely.
A legacy Marvel star fans would love to see make a multiversal crossover switches sides by showing up in The Flash
In a surprisingly loose-lipped move, The Flash director Andy Muschietti has gone ahead and confirmed a super-shocking cameo for the incoming DC blockbuster just a few weeks ahead of its cinematic premiere. You can go seek out who the actor is yourself, but suffice it to say that they are a legacy Marvel star who has long been touted as a perfect person to make a multiversal Marvel cameo by fans. So it kinda stings a bit that he’s decided to jump ship to DC instead. But, hey, now he’s got a taste for it maybe he’ll repeat the trick in Avengers: Secret Wars.
A Phase Five cameo queen surprises literally no one by promising we’ll be seeing a lot more of her in the MCU’s near future
It often raises eyebrows when a Marvel star teases their imminent return, but in this case it’s not exactly breaking news, seeing as the actress in question was already all over Phase Four and is confirmed to feature in a big way in 2024’s Thunderbolts movie. Yes, I’m talking about Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who’s promised we’ll be seeing “a lot more” of her as Phase Five continues. Presumably she’s teasing something beyond her announced Thunderbolts role, though. Could she be hinting at a guest spot opposite her on-screen ex-husband in Secret Invasion?
As an X-Men Origins: Wolverine star reveals they’re not bitter about being left in Marvel’s distant past, more presents pointing to the future of the MCU and beyond aren’t far away.
