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What grade would you give the Marvel Cinematic Universe? (Ever-Changing Question)

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Saul said:
https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/x-men-mcu-legal-issues

Unconfirmed but it would make sense why we have no X-men movie yet. Basically, while Disney owns everything Fox related the previous cast of X-men still have contracts for their roles up until 2025 which means that Disney couldn't cast anyone new in those roles until after that expires.
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The source for this is just some random fan podcast; not exactly an inside source. Smells like pure speculation to me.

Even if the story is true, doesn't sound like a massive impediment to me. Disney could always simply just buy whichever specific actor they want to replace out of their respective contract. There's always clauses for this kind of thing.

Or they're just going to wait it out, because introducing something as massive as mutantkind into the existing MCU will take time to set up anyway. Probably via Secret Wars which is quite a ways off yet, so it's a moot concern either way.
StCoop said:
Assuming it's true it would not be that they have to use these actors it's that the actors would have right of First Refusal on the roles. Like how the Producers of 'Die Hard' had to offer the main role to Frank Sinatra first. And Deadpool aside they'd want to start fresh with casting so safer to wait rather than risk someone saying yes.
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I could see a case to be made for Dafne Keen to be asked back; perhaps even the very same version of her "Miles Moralesed" into continuity as part of 'Secret Wars'. Honestly I'd much rather have Laura be the MCU's Wolverine than watch someone struggle to escape Jackman's shadow as a new version of Logan.
 
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While on FF-related subjects, former Sue Storm--you might know her as Jessica Alba--recently offered this opinion about the MCU

Jessica Alba Says Marvel Movies Are ‘Still Quite Caucasian’: Not Much Has Changed Since ‘Fantastic Four’ Days

"Even if you look at the Marvel movies – that’s the biggest driver of fantasy and what’s happening right now in entertainment, because it’s sort of the family thing – it’s still quite Caucasian,” Alba said. “I would say I was one of the few back in the day… And it was before Marvel was sold to Disney, but it’s still quite more of the same.”
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“I just think more for the younger people who are coming up, who are going to be our future leaders, it’s important for them to see the world on screen, or in stories, in the dreams that we create as entertainers; it reflects the world that they’re in.”
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It should come as no shocker that the usual suspects of social media attacked her, first with the fusillade of "whatabout" arguments (listing Black Panther/Wakanda, Sam Wilson, Monica Rambeau, Nick Fury, Luke Cage, Shang-Chi, Heimdall, Ms. Marvel, Rhodey, Mordo, Namor, et al.), then the expected suggestion that some people won't be happy until all comic heroes are "race-swapped". It never ends, nor should anyone expect it to.
 
Secret Invasion is being billed as a "crossover event" in an alleged plot synopsis, which isn't surprising given the subject matter, but I think this is the first time I've seen it billed as such.

https://comicbookmovie.com/tv/marve...ewly-revealed-synopsis-a195071#gs.7049.81pl7n

So far, we know about Samuel jackson, Cobie Smulders, Ben Mendelssohn, Don Cheadle and Martin Freeman, but that doesn't exactly scream "crossover event" as yet.
 
Given that it's set between 'Infinity War' and 'Endgame' it doesn't leave many big name characters on the table.
 
Yeah, that time period does not leave many characters on the table which would classify as a "crossover event". Or, if they debut new characters in this "in-between" film, some may wonder why they did not show up for Endgame.
 
The She-Hulk premiere has been bumped back a day from Wednesday the 17th to Thursday the 18th. The following episodes will then drop on Thursdays.
 
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