The Incredible 4 has stolen a lot of the eye of late, so let’s give a much-deserved second within the highlight to a different MCU film coming in 2025 that was simply quietly moved up the slate. Don’t overlook, Thunderbolts just lately switched launch dates with FF, so it’s now as a consequence of hit theaters Might 2, 2025.
And that’s a fairly tall order contemplating that manufacturing is barely simply starting, as per the top of February. Fortunately, the solid is filled with super-soldiers, so we’ve religion they will full this daunting endurance check and bash out a blockbuster in little over a yr. Though, having stated that, one super-soldier may not report for obligation as a lot as we thought…
Bucky Barnes’ Thunderbolts position could also be means smaller than his followers predict
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Are we going to have the ability to take a look at Bucky Barnes the identical means once more after we see Sebastian Stan play Donald Trump (in an upcoming film concerning the ex-POTUS’ early years in enterprise)? Effectively, the excellent news is we’d not have to have a look at him as a lot as anticipated. Thunderbolts has all the time been mentioned as an ensemble movie however with Florence Pugh and Stan as co-leads. Nonetheless, the Yelena Belova actress confirming she’s began taking pictures earlier than anybody else has led to an alleged little bit of intel claiming Stan is not the co-lead. In reality, he could be as little as the sixth most vital character within the film. Now that’s a bolt from the blue!
Marvel Studios reportedly planning to launch brand-new franchise in 2026
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It’s been stated again and again that Marvel Studios is placing all its chips on the Incredible 4 and the X-Males, each of whom are making their grand entrances within the MCU quickly, so as to bolster the flailing cinematic universe. In order that’s why it’s so shocking that a new rumor claims that Marvel is about to launch a brand-new franchise in 2026 based mostly round a personality we haven’t seen within the MCU but. Don’t get too excited that we’re about to get a, say, Nova or Alpha Flight film simply but, as that is only a rumor and it’s as obscure as they arrive (it’s unknown if it refers to a movie or TV collection), but it surely’s one other encouraging signal that Marvel is on its means again up once more.
Dave Bautista is so performed with Drax, however he’s not essentially performed with the MCU
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Has Dave Bautista really left the MCU? How can we make certain that he’s not been in each Marvel film since Guardians 3, however he’s simply standing so nonetheless that we didn’t see him? Whereas we ponder that conundrum, Bautista has made it identified that, whereas he’s undoubtedly performed as Drax and no person could make him don that gray bodypaint once more, he’s up for returning to Marvel to play some form of “ominous villain.” In the event you ask me, this leaves the door open for him to switch Jonathan Majors’ Kang as the large dangerous of Avengers 5, however who is aware of what the studio’s plan is on that entrance. I’m simply saying, the followers’ll by no means see it coming… principally as a result of he’s invisible.