Disney CEO Unaware of When Marvel Films Will Restart Production
The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a world in which movie productions are now something that seem almost foreign. No productions are currently running because groups of people are not allowed to gather together. With no productions running, it is no surprise that we have no proper release dates for new films, especially the Marvel Cinematic Universe films. The MCU is a universe where the films must be released in a proper or and with the virus around, premiere dates have had to moved around.
‘Black Widow’ has currently been pushed back to a November release date, which is when ‘The Eternals’ was meant to make its premiere. Now the entire lineup of Marvel films has been pushed back and changed their entire production schedule. That is, of course, whenever productions are able to start up again. There is no official production schedule because they don’t know when they can restart the productions again. So productions are currently cancelled until further notice and now even Disney’s CEO Bob Chapek isn’t sure about when they will restart.
Marvel films are entering an entirely new era because of the end of the Infinity Saga last year. As such, this new phase, Phase 4 of the MCU, is meant to start an entirely new chapter for it, but this isn’t a great start for it at all. Phase 4 has a number of films that people are interested in due to it being full of characters that haven’t been seen by most people before. Lesser known characters being a part of the MCU isn’t a bad thing and could could give us a really interesting saga going forward. After all, the Guardians of the Galaxy were a lesser known group of heroes that became a big part of the MCU.
Sadly, it will be a while longer before we get to see how these films will end up playing out and what story we will get to see them tell. There are plenty of sagas that we can see the stories for in the future, but the set-ups need to be made. The domino effect caused by delaying ‘Black Widow’ has changed everything about the way Marvel Studios must approach the universe moving forward with everything being push by about six months. Even when they are able to restart production there will surely be new rules in place for them to follow which could change the entire way that the films play out. Hopefully something will happen that can help things go back to normal soon.