Week In Nerdom LIVE! | Rebooting the MCU
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Quick Essay:
We are in the age of the superhero movie. Smack dab in the middle of it in fact. That isn’t a commentary on how long I think this wonderful time in cinema is going to last, more just establishing the amount of time we have already spent here.
As the popular culture becomes acclimated to superheroes we are about to move into another stage of that experience that comic book readers have been immersed in since the beginning of the art form: Casting Changes. Everytime a new artist comes on to your favorite book, it is effectively like recasting every character in the book.
With the conclusion of Robert Downey Jr.’s, Chris Evans’, Chris Hemsworth’s, Scarlett Johansson’s, and potentially many more contracts, Kevin Feige and the Marvel Branch of Disney are facing something of a dilemma. Do you simply recast, and risk confusing and maybe even alienating the majority of people who only passively enjoy these characters, OR reboot to some degree and rehash the origins of all the characters played by these actors.
To me the logical answer is the former rather than the later, though I anticipate some combination of both. First we have Phase 4. None of the characters who’s actors, save for Scarlett Johansson, are coming up on the end of their contracts are slated to be a part of phase 4 past Avengers: Endgame. Which brings to the forefront the newer faces of the MCU. We have returning newbies in Spider-Man’s Tom Holland, Black Panther’s Chadwick Boseman, and Doctor Strange’s Benedict Cumberbatch. Brand new faces like Captain Marvel’s Brie Larsen and whoever is going to be in the Eternals movie. And the properties that are in some sort of limbo, Guardian’s of the Galaxy Vol 3, and all of the Fox properties that will in all likelihood be properly under the Disney umbrella by the end of this year. So that should give something of a buffer between the existing actor’s portrayals, and the inevitable recast. Once we circle back around to Cap and Iron Man, it won’t feel so odd to see someone new in those suits.
But that brings us to another reboot issue… Fox and the X-Men. There are a gaggle of actors already attached to those roles. Do you say “sorry guys, the new management says your out?” Or do you incorporate what the other company has already estabolished?
And THAT is where we are today. To reboot or not to reboot? THAT is the question.
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