After the stunning success of Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom over The Marvels, Marvel is probably going glad that there received’t be any extra competitors from DC till July 2025, when the brand new DCU launches with Superman: Legacy. Sadly, the MCU film that’s going head-to-head with it has simply hit a significant Jonathan Majors-style setback.
Elsewhere, the incoming Echo could be considerably crusing beneath the radar, however at the very least it’s compelled Marvel to confess one thing we’ve been dying to listen to for a full decade now. Principally, Daredevil followers, your day has come.
Superman: Legacy‘s massive competitors dropping its greatest star is unhealthy information for Marvel however nice information for the DCU
I do know 2024 has simply begun, however let’s skip forward to July 2025. On the eleventh of that month, DC’s Superman: Legacy arrives, with Marvel’s Thunderbolts releasing on the twenty fifth. For a sizzling second there, it regarded like we’d really be having the battle of the Supermen, as David Corenswet’s Kal-El would face off on the field workplace with Steven Yeun’s Sentry, generally known as Marvel’s reply to Supes. Sadly, Yeun is now out of the image, leaving each the Sentry’s MCU future in query and that means Marvel has suffered its second vital casting loss in as many weeks. Appears to be like like Legacy‘s shot at cinematic supremacy simply received just a little simpler…
Echo producer admits he’s “assured” that Netflix’s Daredevil is a part of the Sacred Timeline
Is Netflix’s Daredevil really MCU canon? That’s one thing Marvel has been going forwards and backwards on for the previous 9 years, ever for the reason that present premiered in 2015. Certain, that collection was made by Marvel Tv however then Charlie Cox returned for bonafide Marvel Studios productions like Spider-Man: No Means House. And but Marvel’s timeline bible only in the near past implied that solely his post-Section 4 outings had been canon. Fortunately, Echo producer Brad Winderbaum has revealed that he’s “assured” he can now declare, on behalf of the studio, that Daredevil takes place within the Sacred Timeline. That bodes extraordinarily effectively for the upcoming, and utterly retooled, Born Once more reboot.
Did Marvel simply drop a significant Younger Avengers tease or am I clutching at straw swords?
A largely standalone animated anthology present it could be, however there’s a lot potential for the MCU’s future hidden within the What If…? season 2 finale. Let’s put apart the Loki crossover of all of it for a minute, although, and concentrate on that glowing inexperienced sword Infinity Carter (Captain Carter with the Infinity Stones) wields within the episode. A robust cosmic blade owned by a Hulk? That couldn’t be Marvel’s adaptation of Excelsior, sometimes utilized by Younger Avenger member Hulkling, might it? Nicely, Ms. Marvel is formally within the strategy of assembling her “Child Avengers,” and Hulkling’s boyfriend Wiccan is coming on this fall’s Agatha. As Echo has simply reminded us, it truly is all related.