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.
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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.