MCU turned Guardians Of The Galaxy into a billion dollar franchise. Captain Marvel is on pace to hit $1 billion. Antman did like $500-$600 million.
MCU's entire MO is taking B-Z tier characters and making them A-listers.
Doing it again for Alpha Flight (or any lesser known mutant/X-Men related characters) would be light work.
Then, obviously at some point in the future, they'd introduce the core X-Men and/or villains. I seriously doubt they're gonna jump out the window with X-Men directly after this Phase, though.
Fred.
I chose Alpha Flight to start the day whole international angle instead of clogging up more stories in America. Set up Excalibur out of UK etc.
Plus laying the groundwork for the new Wolverine.
This is pretty interesting. Can insert mutants into the current mcu without having to fast track the x-men, and the possible backlash if you don't get them absolutely right.
I can see feige doing this since they plan their films way out in advance, the only issue would be how they would fit/retcon Deadpool into all this.
That's if they're not introducing the mutants via the multiverse in Endgame.
Hold up....when did Marvel get X-Men back??????
I don't see them doing anything like that in "Endgame". That movie was done months before the merger even happened. People in the industry have already seen it.
Having said that, they didn't see the after credits scenes. Marvel could sneak something in there but like you said, they plan these things out way in advance. So I'm sure they already had after credits scenes planned long before the Fox deal was done.
I see the current generation (pre-Fox deal) of the MCU concluding with "Endgame" and then a few months from now we get news on everything new they're adding.
Fred.
Nah, I wasn't talking about directly referring to mutants in Endgame. Just them introducing the idea of other universes that possibly have "different heroes" . Therefore, they could do an established x-men in a different universe if they wanted to down the line without all the world building, and then have a secret wars/time runs out type super event if they wanted to crossover eventually with the main mcu characters.
If you notice, they have been trying to introduce the idea of mutants a little bit, using the infinity stones (scarlet witch) and the quantium realm/microverse (janet van dyne talks about her "evolving in the QR).
And he's actually said he wants to play Mr. Sinister.
Bryan Cranston Still Wants To Play X-Men's Mister Sinister
They would be a fool not to use him.
Fred.
He'd MURDER IT as Sinister.
Wouldn't mind keeping Fassbender as Mags either.
oh yeah
Remy LeBeau better get his just due
Thieves and Assassins
need a more southern Rogue too