With the breathing room given by its delay to 2025, the next Captain America film is going through a few changes before it arrives in cinemas.
Marvel Studios are looking to have an interesting 2024.
With just one film coming out of the studio for the first time since 2010 (when Iron Man 2 arrived as the MCU was still finding its feet), from the outside it looks like Feige and co. are pulling the breaks on the ‘content’ machine a little bit.
What’s more, that one 2024 film is Deadpool 3 – and it’s currently pretty unclear how tied the famously off-beat antihero will tie into the wider MCU.
Though Thunderbolts and Captain America: Brave New World were originally scheduled for next year (on 20th December and 26th July respectively), both have since been moved back into 2025. Given the grumblings about superhero fatigue and poor box office numbers that have plagued almost every comic book movie released this year, that bit of extra space might not be such a bad thing.
Seemingly on that note, Marvel Studios has brought a new writer, Moon Knight producer Matthew Orton, onto the next Captain America movie, with additional photography now planned for the middle of 2024 (according to Deadline).
While it’s not at all uncommon for Disney to chop, change and reshoot bits of their blockbusters right up until release, it does feel like the six-month delay to Marvel Studios’ upcoming slate might have given them the chance to course correct after a largely disappointing year for MCU fans.
The fourth Captain America movie is currently slated as the last film of Marvel’s ‘Phase Five’, and Anthony Mackie’s first standalone film as the star-spangled man after taking over the mantle in The Falcon And The Winter Soldier. If everything goes according to plan, it’ll be in cinemas on the 14th of February 2025 (oh Marvel, you old romantic).
