After Avengers: Endgame toppled James Cameron’s 22-year monopoly on holding the highest-grossing movie of all-time by tearing past both Titanic and Avatar, many were wondering how the epic and spectacular conclusion to the Infinity Saga could possibly be topped. After all, trying to emulate such a monumental achievement is an incredibly difficult task, but as the fates would have it Marvel Studios’ response was to do absolutely nothing instead.
Originally, this was going to be a huge year for the studio’s cinematic universe. Black Widow was set to send Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff riding off into the sunset with a solo movie ten years in the making, while Eternals was going to further expand the cosmic side of the mythology. Not only that, but the roster of Disney Plus exclusives were set to begin rolling out with The Falcon and the Winter Solider and then WandaVision.
However, now that WandaVision has been confirmed for a January 2021 debut, and Black Widow is no longer coming in 2020, this year marks the first time since 2009 that the world’s biggest and most popular franchise hasn’t released any new content, with an eighteen month gap following last July’s Spider-Man: Far From Home for good measure. The last time there was a similar gap was between 2008’s The Incredible Hulk and 2010’s Iron Man 2.
Not only that, but if we’re talking Marvel in general, then you’d have to go back to 2001 to find the last time that an entire calendar year went past without a blockbuster movie based on one of the company’s iconic characters, when there was a brief period between the release of Bryan Singer’s X-Men and the arrival of Guillermo del Toro’s Blade II when Hollywood was trying to figure out if the comic book renaissance was actually happening or if it was just a passing fad.
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