I also think that Marvel is on this journey now, they're trying a bunch of other stuff and it
lets, you know, I'm excited for them to see how all that goes
and it's hard to it's hard to project, Welcome back everyone
It's Charlie
Bob Iger, current CEO of Disney, just revealed they'd secretly canceled a number of Marvel projects,
both movies and Marvel Disney Plus series and some Star Wars stuff
They canceled too
We know what most of them are, so we'll break it all down because it's
all part of their larger effort to get their house in order.
Like get the house of mouse in order
in a lot of these changes will manifest in the soft reboot that they're doing.
Like, this is all part of this big soft reboot
I'll be doing videos for all those.
There'll be a good teaser for what's happening in Deadpool and Wolverine with all the X-Men coming back
Right now, that's the only MCU Marvel movie coming out this year.
Disney are making the two major reasons Deadpool and Wolverine is the only Marvel movie
coming out this year is because it was so far along in production
when they had their big come to Jesus moment of realization
in a string of poorly received movies and Disney Plus series like Secret Invasion
gave them the wake up calls they needed like, my God, we need to fix things.
when that happened, even when it was only half done, according to Bob Iger in the Marvel people,
Deadpool and Wolverine looks so good like so much better than anything else
that they've been doing the past couple of years.
They were confident
that it would be their first billion dollar movie, or at least close to it since Spider-Man
No Way Home, Bob Iger was literally referencing them hitting this box office peak, this billion dollar mark.
So that shows you how confident they are in that movie.
we'll actually get a new trailer for that pretty soon.
That'll tell us what the actual story the movie is.
But when Bob Iger confirmed that they quietly canceled or changed
projects, movies, Disney Plus shows that they no longer felt confident in, meaning
that they'd gotten rid of what they thought was their weakest material in the last several months.
So you ask what got canceled?
Like what did Marvel cancel?
Just going down the list in no particular order, starting with the movies.
Eternals two.
This was always a weird proposition for them just because they're such a weird group.
There were some strong things that they did in that first Eternals movie.
Like there are a lot of Eternals fans out there and there's some interesting characters that they came
up with.
generally their original
conception was that they were meant to be Kevin Feige's replacement for the X-Men
because he developed that Eternals movie several years before the Fox Disney buyout happened.
so they were sort of like Marvel's backup plan, like, here's a super weird group with super weird powers,
like a brand new mythology that we're introducing to the MCU because we don't have X-Men and mutants.
but cut to a couple of years later, after Avengers Endgame, by the time they're ready
to release the Eternals, the whole Fox Disney buyout thing works out swimmingly.
They get access to all their characters again.
and finally, he can actually start developing the X-Men reboot
movie that he'd been wanting to make for several years.
when he superhero wears a red suit, friendly neighborhood kind of guy who lives an old woman
might shoot webs.
So really, Marvel doesn't actually need the Eternals characters.
and what will probably happen with them now.
Like anything that would have happened in Eternals two is they'll just move that, plot those characters
to other movies and Disney Plus shows like the Celestials, for example,
Really cool, really weird mythology, super powerful cosmic beings.
Really good example of them sort of shunting this storyline to other movies is we're going to deal with
Tim at that dead celestial in the Indian Ocean during Captain America four Brave New World.
And they're going to be using that to debut Adamantium in the MCU,
as opposed to them waiting to follow up on the dead celestial until Eternals to some of the Eternals
characters are also coming back during what if season three and during the Marvel Zombies TV show.
There's
still all kinds of weird mythology that they tease at the end of that movie.
Like you have Pip the Troll, you have Harry Styles as a version of Star Fox, Thanos, his brother.
So there was this a lot of questions and hanging plot threads that they could have addressed
in Eternals do that now they'll just deal with in other stories.
then we have the Iron Man Armor Wars movie with Rhodey.
Originally this was going to be a Disney Plus series.
Marvel realized that there was no way they were going to be able to do all the Iron Man
armors, like all the special effects, because most of them are special effects
or visual effects on the budget that they wanted to keep these Disney Plus series, too.
For example, She-Hulk was a budget disaster for them.
They wound up spending over like 220 $25 million on that
when normally they really want to keep the Marvel Disney Plus series under $150 Million.
it essentially when they don't release things theatrically, they don't get the extra punch
from the box office, They don't get the extra bite at the apple, also
They were going to make damage control.
And Val, some of the big villains they were going to bring back
just in Hammer during that, there would have been some light.
Robert Downey Jr Easter eggs and references going on during it for Tony Stark, Iron Man.
generally though, it was always a weird proposition, like an Iron Man movie without real Iron Man.
Like they were going to put Iron Heart in it.
Riri Williams character and they were going to tell you the Iron Heart series too.
They've already finished that all.
Talk about that in a second too, because there are a number of projects that would have been canceled,
but they already finished filming them, so they just go ahead and release them anyway.
So generally it just seems like a lot of this that they were going to do in the Iron Man Armor Wars
movie, they're just moving to other movies like Rhodey will continue in the MCU being War Machine.
there was going to be an Air Force movie that they'd been trying to make sense of.
Andrews Endgame.
All the major female stars like Valkyrie, Captain Marvel,
WASP, were talking about doing an Air Force movie a long time ago.
You probably remember.
but Kojo, a couple of years later, there's a reason why you haven't heard
Marvel saying anything about doing any kind of Air Force movie.
In fact, the Marvel's movie is probably the best test example for that.
There were a lot of things they were trying to do with the Marvel movie, but it was also meant
to be sort of a soft run for how audiences responded to a movie, like a Force.
Like if the Marvel's movie had done gangbusters in the theaters, then they probably would have tried a force.
But you all saw what wound up happening regardless.
So no more a force movie. moving down the list.
We have all the special presentations they were doing like Werewolf by Night,
which are basically like small movies on a slightly smaller budget.
Marvel basically killed off all the ones they were working on in all the characters
that were going to get special presentations are now just kind of being put
in other projects, other movies and Disney Plus series.
part of the reason for this is because they were only releasing them on
Disney Plus so they couldn't make money on them theatrically.
so really it was like Marvel throwing away $100 million every time they made one of these.
the most recent ones that they were working on were supposed to be a Silver Surfer One-Shot.
He's coming back during the new fantastic Four movie, but not in the way that people expect.
Like supposedly the plot will be a little different from the previous Silver Surfer Galactus relationships
in the old Fantastic Four movies, and they'll be doing something else with the character in that movie.
But we will see.
Silver Surfer at some point during the new Fantastic Four movie,
there was supposed to be a Scarlet Witch Agatha special presentation about the Witches Road,
which is like an alternate dimension
that you see in the Agatha trailer where Scarlet Witch is sold like the main 616
Scarlet Witch was supposed to have gone after she died kind of in the same way that you saw during New Night.
What happens to people after they die?
Like their consciousness just travels to another dimension.
Same thing happened to this version of Scarlet, which it just went to the Witches Road.
there was supposed to be a special presentation for the century
that presumably would have shown his full origin story, setting him up for the Thunderbolts movie.
now they're just folding that story into the Thunderbolts movie.
Like we'll get a quicker version of his origin story.
there would have been a ghost writer. Special presentation.
Now that's probably going to be folded into either a movie like Doctor Strange
three or more likely the Midnight Suns movie that Oscar Isaac was just teasing.
Like I just did a video about that.
thought there was an interesting opportunity with Midnight Suns.
You know, there's just such interesting characters in there and,
you know, now that we've set the groundwork with with, you know,
learning new Mark Steven, Jake Lasso are
that it could be an interesting opportunity to
to see him as part of the team and what that dynamic would be.
So I think that'd be exciting.
So I think for me, I definitely hope that there's some room to explore that possibility.
I haven't seen the Deathstroke stuff. That's pretty fun.
No, it looks for me, I don't have like a hard, fast rule anymore.
It's just for me, it's just about is there a great story and is a great opportunity
to do something interesting and something different, something that would excite people,
whether that be DC or anything else.
that was all after he was asked about Moonlight Season two,
which they're also still working on like they did not canceled Moonlight Season two.
Don't worry about that.
but there was supposed to be a Nova special presentation which is reportedly now
turning into a full blown movie, sort of filling the gap in Marvel's lack of space
based movies with the Guardians of the Galaxy not doing a fourth movie,
which could also change now just because they've done so well with the Guardians movies.
they could just do a fourth one with Rocket's version of the team and fold the Nova character into that.
then pretty much all the other canceled projects that we know about are Disney.
Plus there's or were Disney Plus series.
There was going to be a Vision Quest series they were making for White Vision.
That's probably going to be folded into another movie, like they'll bring White Vision back
during another movie because it would have been so expensive for them
to make that because there's so many special effects be there was going to be a Wiccan, a TV show for Adult
Billy, played by Joe Locke, which was going to cover the story of him searching for
and finding his mother, Scarlet Witch, like the main 616 version of Scarlet Witch.
I just explained her her soul was going to be trapped in the witch's road
like they were going to basically set that up at the end of the Agatha show.
what they'll probably do now with his character is just for any of his story, searching for Scarlet
Witch into the upcoming Scarlet Witch movie or the young Avengers movie that they're working on.
on top of that, they could also wind up canceling the young Avengers movie plans
and just fold their story into the Scarlet Witch movie.
mostly because the Scarlet Witch movie isn't meant to happen until either
right before or right after Avengers Secret Wars, like long ways off
in the only teaser we've got for that so far is that the story will adapt.
A notable comic book story of hers.
my assumption is that it's going to be a version of the Children's Crusade just because that's her
whole things that she cares about.
She only cares about her children The original comic featured a ton of young Avengers,
including Billy and Tommy, a bunch of X-Men characters, a bunch of Avengers and Doctor Doom,
and they still have to establish his character, the new Fantastic Four movie.
Like it will feature a version of Doctor Doom at some point during that
So generally you have a super popular character with a movie that they know
they're not going to do for several years, like it's going to be a while in a bunch
of really big characters, like the biggest characters and biggest teams showing up in that.
So they'll probably shunt a lot of these canceled plans for lesser projects into that.
there are also a number of lesser Disney Plus spin offs for smaller characters that also got canceled.
We might not find that out about all of them just because there were so many they were working on.
Bird. A good example would be characters like Echo.
They're not doing more stuff
like Echo for like really obscure characters that were only in the comics for a little while
And generally they're just pulling back on Disney Plus series in general.
So a really good example of that is Wandavision in Agatha Coven of Chaos,
or whatever the show winds up being called, because they keep changing the title of that.
Like there were a ton of spin offs that they developed based on Wandavision
just expect them to pull way back on stuff like that. Now.
generally refocusing their efforts on the safest of bets.
Really good example is like the new Fantastic Four movie, the new X-Men reboot movie, The Kevin Feige
working on like really safe bet X-Men super popular characters.
Of course, it makes sense that they want to do a new X-Men movie.
I am sure there's a bunch of super weird Disney Plus series
special presentations in movies that we won't learn about for a couple more years.
but as we hear more news about what
Marvel's actually doing the next couple of years, of course I will include that in my future videos.
Generally.
Right now Marvel is just putting most of their chips on their safe bets
so that the MCU is starting to resemble
more of their structure that they had during Marvel Phase one, Phase two and Phase three as opposed to what
they've been doing the past couple of years since Avengers Endgame, just trying
all kinds of disparate, weird characters that didn't seem particularly connected,
that's probably one of the biggest complaints that a lot of longtime Marvel fans have had
is that everything that's been happening since Avengers Endgame feels so disconnected.
there's a bunch of other big stuff coming up, like I said, X-Men 97 episodes really soon
I just did a trailer video for that, so I'll link it below the description
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