Marvel Studios Hold Crisis Talks At September Summit

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It was always strange to they wanted Kang as the big bad of Secret Wars when both the comic versions had Doctor Doom as the central antagonist. People may argue that the MCU is never true to the comics but save for a few admittedly major deviations the movies are generally truer to the original stories and characters than most comic book movie franchises.

We know Secret Wars was always going to be the big crossover event that they would take multiple phases to build up just like Infinity War but then they bumped up the movies based on that story. The whole thing struck me as an ever so slight panic at Shang Chi and Eternals not doing huge numbers and them going "see we got Avengers back and with it being a multiverse movie all the characters will come back".

I presume the original plan was to have one or two Fantastic Four movies to set up Doom for Secret Wars but since they bumped up their plans they replaced him with Kang who they were already setting up to be the bad guy of a stand-alone Avengers movie. Their thinking was probably something along the lines of "well they both wear suits of armor and want to take over the world so we can replace one with other". It might have worked if the actor they chose hadn't multiple criminal charges hanging over his head and now we're faced with a similar conundrum as the Distinguished Competition had with Ezra Miller.

There is obviously no ideal solution but for me the best and simplest way to deal with this problem is for them to admit they have one. Say the situation means they are altering their movie slate delaying the three Avengers movies until the situation with Majors is resolved. If he is innocent then they can go ahead with those Avengers movies with him as the villain and if not then recast Kang...or if they have debuted Doom by that point have him as the villain of Secret Wars.

Originally Posted by IMJ

Where are all of the forum woke-basement-dwellers now? Why aren't they out saving Marvel with their philosophies and spending power?

Must be all of the "racists".

The crisis meetings are less to do with Marvel Studios not doing financially well (and most of their releases still likely will) but more to do with what to do with Jonathan Majors and their struggling VFX workers. I'd thought that was clear if you read the article or even the OP but you were so eager to have a rant about wokeness you didn't feel the need to fully understand what you were supposed to be responding to.