What's happening in Marvel Phase 4?
What's happening in Marvel Phase 4?
Beyond Avengers: Endgame...
It took Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige long enough, but now we finally know what's happening in Phase 4.
Less than a month after Spider-Man: Far From Home officially brought an end to Phase 3, Feige took to the stage in the cavernous Hall H at Comic-Con on July 20 to delight the crowd with a series of huge announcements.
There were special guest appearances and some very surprise announcements, but here's everything you need to know about the next Phase of the gigantic Marvel Cinematic Universe.
When does Marvel Phase 4 start?
Phase 4 officially starts with Black Widow on May 1, 2020, so that's almost a year you'll have to deal without a new Marvel movie.
We're still reeling from Natasha Romanoff's death in Avengers: Endgame, but Feige promised that now was the right time to delve into her past and show a side of her we haven't seen before.
For the first time in the MCU's history, TV shows will play a big part in the tapestry of the world, so the TV side of Phase 4 starts with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier in Fall 2020 in Disney+.
Which movies will be in Marvel phase 4
Still, the basic format of storytelling established in the MCU is likely to continue for the most part.
"That structure that you laid out was from the comics, right? Everyone had their individual stories. They meet up for a mega event and they go back to their individual stories changed from that event," Feige told io9.
"I think that's a wonderful structure that's worked for decades in the comics, has worked for us now for a decade, so I think it's a good model. But it doesn't necessarily mean we're going to stick to it in stone."
The MCU has always had a global aesthetic, but if New York City has served as its nominal centre so far, it sounds as though Wakanda could take its place moving forwards.
We'll be keeping our fingers crossed that Marvel continues to embrace diversity as it moves deeper into Phase 4.
2018's Black Panther was the first MCU film to centre on a non-white hero, and they kept us hanging until 2019, the last year of Phase 3, before finally giving us a female lead in the form of Brie Larson's Captain Marvel.
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Popular characters from the comics who could move Marvel away from the white-guys-called-Chris model include long-time fan favourite She-Hulk, the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse's breakout star Miles Morales, and the newest Ms Marvel – Kamala Khan, a Pakistani-American teenager from New Jersey.
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