Report: A Faltering Marvel Could Bring Back the Original Avengers

Variety has released an extensive cover story alleging a series of crises for the one-time seemingly unstoppable star of Hollywood: Disney’s Marvel Studios, which, facing behind-the-scenes challenges and a scattered plan for its post-Avengers: Endgame movie slate, could consider some very drastic measures to win back fatigued fans.

The trade’s story tackles a series of on- and off-camera issues that have plagued Marvel since 2019's Avengers: Endgame brought an end to the first decade of Marvel films, an era that had seen Kevin Feige’s studio change the blockbuster movie landscape seemingly forever. From ongoing concerns around building the next “Thanos-level” universe villain around Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror (while the actor is set to go to trial over a series of domestic violence allegations), to overworked VFX houses leading to criticisms of shoddy visuals as well as sparking an unprecedented move to begin unionizing the special effects industry, the report goes into an extensive series of issues that has already seen Marvel move to recalibrate some of its plans, not just on the big screen, but in its ambitious streaming push—as recently seen with the refocusing of Disney+’s Daredevil: Born Again.

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Considering the high cost it would take to bring these stars back after a decade of filmmaking they’ve all largely expressed a desire to move on from in the years since, such an endeavor would be a huge undertaking for Marvel to pull off, one that realigns a lot of its currently announced plans. But things might just end up getting messy enough for the studio to risk it.

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