Doctor Who will tap into its environmentalist history in the new five-part BBC One/Disney+ spinoff announced by showrunner Russell T Davies at SDCC 2024. The long-rumoured Sea Devils show will concern “a race that lives beneath the oceans,” who awaken to see their underwater home in a perilous state due to humanity’s actions. “We have wrecked […]
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From roughly 2014 to 2019—starting with Captain America: The Winter Soldier and ending with Avengers: Endgame—Marvel Studios and the Marvel Cinematic Universe went on a run of massively successful films that dominated pop culture on a global scale. It arguably represented the absolute peak of the superhero genre’s reach and power, and certainly its popularity. Four of the biggest and best movies during that stretch, including the aforementioned The Winter Soldier and Endgame, were also directed by the same guys: Anthony and Joe Russo.
Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige saw something in the Russos’ pitch for The Winter Soldier, which they envisioned as a paranoid political thriller, that overrode any concerns that they were basically TV directors with a handful of small, poorly received features to their names. Feige’s bet paid off, as the Russos went from The Winter Soldier to the even more expansive Captain America: Civil War (an Avengers movie in all but name) and then two truly titanic Avengers sequels, which spanned literally all of time and space and brought nearly every live-action MCU character together in the conclusion to a narrative 10 years in the making.
Now five years after bidding farewell to Marvel with Endgame, the Russos are officially coming back to helm Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. Coming back with them is Robert Downey Jr. as well, who is trading in his Iron Man gear for Doctor Doom’s armor and hood. Can the Russos recapture the same magical formula that powered their four previous MCU films to unmatched heights of acclaim, success, and cultural impact? Will they, the actors, the executives, and the craftspeople at Marvel be able to channel the same dynamic that made those earlier movies so beloved and genuinely terrific?
Much has changed for Marvel and the world since 2019. The post-Endgame MCU has struggled with declining box office, fan enthusiasm, critical notices, and, frankly, narrative cohesion like the kind that drove the Infinity Saga. The Russos have had their own struggles as well. Yes, Deadpool & Wolverine is a massive hit out of the box, but the fate of upcoming films—and the overall arc of what has been called the Multiverse Saga—remains frustratingly unclear. Let’s take a look at the upside, and down, of perhaps the definitive Marvel team assembling once again.
Pro: The Russos Know the Marvel Universe
The Russos seem to genuinely love the Marvel universe, and in fact have stated many times that Secret Wars would be the one property that could lure them back after the exhausting seven years they spent making their previous four MCU pictures. They’ve directed more MCU movies than anyone else, they are familiar with the canon and history, and they seem uniquely able to steer the characters, tone, and story in the right direction.
Con: The MCU Has Changed A Lot Since Endgame
This is not the MCU that the Russos left behind five years ago. That was a universe in which all its main characters were united by a singular purpose where each battle seemed in service to a larger goal, and where the characters’ arcs were all driven by the story they were telling. Ever since kicking off Phase Four in 2021, the MCU does not seem to have had the kind of overarching, unifying narrative that gradually moved from the background to the foreground, building in excitement and scale.
Characters have been introduced and vanished, storylines started and then dropped, and even the underlying threat—
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