People are really suckers for nostalgia.
First Spider Man
Then Dr Strange
Then Flash
Now Deadpool
This whole nostalgia shyt has gotten lazy as fukk. Studios can't come up with new shyt so they just recycle old actors/characters and people gleefully eat it up no matter how bad the writing/story is.
Marvel only greenlit this to appease a cult following.
What's crazy is Captain Marvel did $1.1 billion at the box office, but because of the whole anti-woke movement, didn't give a shyt about the 2nd one.
Wakanda Forever did $859 million without it's lead character at the tail end of Phase 4, and no effort has been put into growing that IP.
But we got a 3rd Ant-Man, that needed to introduce Kang just to tell the story.
We got a 4th Thor movie that was totally unnecessary, and needed a bunch of cameo's just to sell it.
This movie openly made a mockery of the MCU making it hard for people to take future content seriously. This has always been a Ryan Reynolds pet project with little to no substance.
I put this in the same bin as the Sony movies. The fact that Marvel greenlit this speaks to how desperate they are trying to make up for the financial losses over the past few years.
When Disney bought the X-Men IP, the thought was there would be new characters and new stories. I mean the whole reason why Fox made the deal in the first place was because fans wasn't supporting them.
What made the MCU great was Marvel didn't have to worry about interference from Disney. Those days are over. Marvel has basically morphed into the DCEU
Feige is definitely not in charge anymore.