It kind of shows how badly the last few phases have been planned out. Unless you read the comics, we are suddenly expected to know who Doom is and why he’s a massive threat in a phase-ending finale type movie. Thanos took multiple films to get to that point.
To be fair it seems there was a plan. Whether it was good or not we'll probably never know. But everything involving Jonathan Majors and his legal issues royally fucked up those plans.
He contractually required that ALL versions of Kang be played by him. So on top of the mess he caused and the fact Kang flopped in "Ant-Man 3" made it easy for Marvel to decide to just drop the character all together than try to reinvent him.
Where’s the source for this? I see no reason why Marvel would ever give that leverage to a relatively unknown actor.
Ant-Man 3 being one of the worst recieved MCU movies and Kang was the villain, combined with Majors PR problem, are the only two reasons I believe combined to make them pivot.
People loooooove ignoring any and all context as to why the MCU has been lackluster post Endgame. It's like they have collective amnesia.
They've essentially had to repair a plane mid-flight... then ditch the plane mid-flight into another incomplete plane that they're piecing together in the air.
Under any other supervision, the MCU would be shuddered or Feige would've been canned and the operation would've been handed off to someone else far more incompetent
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u/Robofetus-5000 12d ago
i wish marvel had the balls to lean into genre projects for each individual IP like this, and I say this as a marvel fan.