Captain Marvel 2 being rebranded as
Lo and behold, Giant Freakin Robot is now reporting that the title of Carol Danvers’ second solo outing was changed because Marvel Studios didn’t want to place the focus solely on a figure that wasn’t well received by a small and yet very vocal minority who tried to downvote the first installment into oblivion at every opportunity. According to the outlet, “the powers-that-be at Marvel Studios did not feel that she “delivered” in the first one on her own.”
Even if we were to overlook the fact that
Captain Marvel is the second highest-grossing solo debut for any Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero behind only
Netflix Just Added A Great Forgotten Denzel Washington Thriller
The 1990s was the Golden Age of the glossy legal thriller, where big stars wore even bigger coats and sought to unravel a conspiracy with far-reaching implications, thanks almost entirely to John Grisham.
In the space of just five years, seven of the author’s novels were brought to the silver screen to give us the likes of Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman in
The Firm, Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones in
The Client, Matthew McConaughey and Samuel L. Jackson in
A Time to Kill, Hackman again opposite Chris O’Donnell in
Paramount Reportedly Developing Star Trek Spinoffs Set In Kelvin Timeline
All we know for sure about the future of
Star Trek is that there’s going to be more new content than ever before, with Paramount unveiling ambitious plans to debut a fresh show every quarter in addition to a live-action lineup that already includes
Discovery and
Strange New Worlds.
Throughout it all, the feature-length arm of the franchise has been shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, but there are two movies in active development, one to be scripted by
Discovery‘s Kalinda Vasquez and another that’s been penciled in for a June 2023 release. A new rumor claims that the studio is also keen to continue the Kelvin timeline originated by J.J. Abrams in his 2009 reboot, though, which will reportedly lead to spinoffs that occupy the same universe as the adventures of Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the Enterprise crew.
Captain Marvel 2 Is Reportedly Now A Team-Up Movie To Generate More Interest
The future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is poised to introduce more teams than ever before, both those that have been officially confirmed and others that have been either hinted towards, teased or rumored. Up until Phase Four, the only significant squads in the franchise were the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy, but that’s all set to change in a major way.
As well as James Gunn getting the band back together for
Vol. 3,
The Marvels will see Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers partner up with Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan and Teyonah Parris’ Monica Rambeau,
Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Rumored For Soft Reboot In The MCU
What’s old is eventually and inevitably new again, and if the relentless turning of the rumor mill is to be believed, that’s about to become especially true for the Marvel Cinematic Universe over the coming years.
When Kevin Feige was promoted to the company’s Chief Creative Officer, one of his first acts was to fold Marvel Television and disregard any previous TV shows as official MCU canon, which created a minor headache given the sheer amount of references made to the events of the movies in the likes of