{"id":5835,"date":"2021-02-26T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=5835"},"modified":"2021-02-26T12:00:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T17:00:36","slug":"marvel-phase-4-what-to-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=5835","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Phase 4: What to Expect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Charissa Roberson<\/em><\/p>\n

How do you move on from a finale like \u201cAvengers: Endgame\u201d? The epic climax of the Marvel Cinematic Universe\u2019s Phase 3, which said goodbye to many founding faces of the Avengers, spelled the end of an era \u2013 but not, however, the end of the line. Marvel Studios is already underway on Phase 4 of the MCU, and, based on early reports, upcoming projects could be the most ambitious yet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Phase 4 kicked off with the debut of \u201cWandavision\u201d on Disney+. This oddball, genre-blending series finds Wanda Maximoff (a.k.a. Scarlet Witch) at the heart of an alternate reality that presents itself as a television sitcom. Each episode is styled after a particular decade of American television, from the \u201850s onward. Not only does this make for extremely entertaining viewing \u2013 watching the costumes, dialogue and camerawork evolve masterfully with each episode \u2013 but it raises suspicions about what\u2019s actually going on in this unsettling \u201cTV Land.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Viewers will have to wait until \u201cWandavision\u201d\u2019s last episode premieres on Mar. 5 to (hopefully) get answers. But \u201cWandavision\u201d\u2019s exploration of an alternate reality could have implications beyond the show itself. Rumor has it that Marvel is setting up something big for Phase 4. The upcoming \u201cDr. Strange\u201d sequel (\u201cDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness\u201d) might hint at where the superhero franchise is heading.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s right \u2013 Marvel could introduce the multiverse. The third \u201cSpider-Man\u201d film (recently confirmed as \u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home\u201d), which stars Tom Holland as the titular web-crawler, has been surrounded by speculation well ahead of any official plot release. Could Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire \u2013 who each wore the Spidey suit in their own right \u2013 reprise their roles in a live-action version of the Spider-verse? Holland recently debunked this claim (Esquire), but even so, theories continue to spin as thick as spiderwebs.<\/span><\/p>\n

And consider the topsy-turvy weirdness going down in \u201cWandavision\u201d right now \u2013 all of that has yet to be fully explained. Could Marvel\u2019s release of \u201cWandavision\u201d at the start of Phase 4 be a calculated move to prepare us for the multiverse? Wanda Maximoff is set to appear in \u201cMultiverse of Madness,\u201d so perhaps there are stronger ties there than originally thought.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although most information remains rumors, Marvel definitely appears to be moving into multiple dimensions. Add to that a whole slate of upcoming projects, from TV series like \u201cLoki\u201d and \u201cThe Falcon and the Winter Soldier,\u201d to solo films for favorites like \u201cBlack Widow\u201d and \u201cHawkeye,\u201d plus introductions to all-new heroes in films like \u201cThe Eternals\u201d and \u201cShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.\u201d Whatever direction Phase 4 takes, we can be sure that Marvel will deliver up a wild, wacky and wonderful ride of characteristically epic proportions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Charissa Roberson How do you move on from a finale like \u201cAvengers: Endgame\u201d? The epic climax of the Marvel Cinematic Universe\u2019s Phase 3, which said goodbye to many founding faces of the Avengers, spelled the end of an era \u2013 but not, however, the end of the line. Marvel Studios is already underway…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-5835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-summer2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}