Venom 3 hasn't filmed yet, so the odds of it coming out next year are slim.
I've revised and refined my MCU Viewing Order
Okay, but isn't this a speculation thread to discuss the MCU's future, not a rewatch thread?
The Avengers might not [need another Hawkeye], but the Young Avengers do since the whole point of the team is that they are all or mostly younger counterparts to the Avengers.
Replicating what was successful before -
creativity!
... Creativity?
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Anyhow, my modest suggestions for the MCU:
1) Simmer down: release no more than three movies and three seasons of live-action shows in any 12-month period. (1-2 Special Presentations, or even the odd low-key, low-stakes TV movie, can be extra.)
2) Better align D+ series airing with movie releases: granted, the pandemic messed things up, and the Disney brass wanted to get D+ up and running in a hurry, but
WandaVision should have aired a few months before
Multiverse of Madness,
Ms. Marvel should have aired shortly before
The Marvels, and
Ironheart should have come out shortly after
Wakanda Forever. Not every show has to directly correlate with a movie release -
Loki,
She-Hulk, and
Daredevil can be more flexible - but maybe roughly half of them
should; the current schedule is way too haphazard.
3) Don't introduce major movie characters on D+: whether we like it or not, movies still capture much more general audience interest than shows - they get bigger advertising pushes, more media coverage, and they plain
feel bigger, even though their production budgets may be similar and runtimes are of course shorter. Ergo, Carol's second movie (assuming they had to make it in more or less its actual form at all) should have been promoted as a
Captain Marvel sequel featuring supporting characters, not as a trio of equals team-up.
4) Answer basic questions: as I argued upthread, taking a long lead-up to the next Avengers movie was absolutely the correct movie, but the audience should just as definitely know what the basic status of the organization is by now. If SHIELD was an international organization (this was always a bit unclear), is SWORD a definitively American organization, as a response to the HYDRA crisis, or is it an international effort, too? Who leads
it - Fury, someone else?
5) More connections: Shang-Chi should have been at Kamar-Taj at the end of
Multiverse of Madness and told America "Welcome to the circus," like Wong told
him. Kamala and friends should have at least discussed Spidey, who should ideally have made a cameo (even if his mask stayed on). The giant stone ocean baby should have had more than a
She-Hulk onscreen clickbait reference, with at least Thor or Fury mentioning it. Maybe Shang-Chi should have been part of the dinner at the end of
Quantumania, if only to quietly indicate he and Scott, as fellow San Franciscans, are now pals.
Secret Invasion should have been a major crossover movie, or not attempted at all (probably that). A Shang-Chi (and ideally, also a Spidey) sequel should be farther along.