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‘Candyman’ 2020 Director Picked for ‘Captain Marvel 2’

By George Robbins

The Marvel Cinematic Universe, or MCU, is a franchise that is known all over the world and it has easily become one of the biggest film franchises ever. The wild success of the MCU films is something that many other studios are trying to emulate by creating their own shared universes. These shared universes either succeed or fail pretty badly before they can even get their feet under them and this has resulted in few cinematic universes existing outside of the MCU. It will also be difficult for any universes in the future to even start up now as those that try to start are often met with skepticism because people think they are just copying the MCU. That being said, the opportunity is still there and studios still have a chance to make something great.

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Not every single film in the MCU has been great, but due to character revamps, every character in the MCU has been treated pretty well. Even the worst of the MCU films were completely terrible, though they have been met with plenty of criticism. These are made up for by people making new films that well overdo what the previous film did. Examples for these include ‘Iron Man 3’ and ‘Thor: The Dark World’ which were not really liked much by fans, especially the latter. They would then go on to be out shined by their follow-ups, namely ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, and Thor: Ragnarok.’ These are just some of the incredible films to come out afterwards and they are very much loved.

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Other than the older heroes getting the sequels they deserved, new characters ended up with the movies they deserved. Within the past few years leading up to the end of the Infinity Saga, we were given introduction movies for ‘Doctor Strange,’ a new story for Spider-Man in ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming,’ and a pretty good introduction movie for ‘Captain Marvel.’ For the last of those films, we ended up with a movie that did a pretty good job of showing us that even characters that seem overpowered by some standards can be given pretty good movies. The movie was pretty much considered to be a success after its release and even though it came out between the last two Avengers movies in the saga, it did move the story along. Thus, it is now a certainty that we will get to see yet another Captain Marvel film.

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Recently, it was announced that director Nia DaCosta will be taking the helm to be the director for the upcoming sequel in the MCU. For those unaware, DaCosta was also the director for the movie ‘Candyman‘ which is a spiritual successor to the original movie of the same name. The movie has had to be moved and instead of releasing over the summer, it will release in October of this year if all goes as planned. ‘Captain Marvel’ directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden have already voiced their support that they believe DaCosta will make a great director for the upcoming sequel. Hopefully, we will soon get to see progress on the continuation of the story of Carol Danvers’ story some time in the not too distant future.

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