This Wednesday, March 26, in front of several million spectators on social networks, Marvel formalized the start of filmingAvengers : Doomsday. At the same time, Kevin Feige’s company unveiled the list of actors and actresses invited to take part in the adventure. Among the fantastic four, the X-Men or within the original Avengers, the film of the Russo brothers rushes at full speed towards the superhero meeting that fans have been waiting for years.
If the firm has not yet crossed the crossover course with DC – it has already been the case on icy paper – it is clear that nothing else seems impossible within the saga started in 2008 with Iron Man by Jon Favreau. But after six hours of an event to say the least soporific, a retransmission longer than the film itself, we sincerely wonder if all that is still really worth seeing. And if, after more of a decade to religiously follow the Marvel Cinematic Universewere we dropping?
“I’m talking to you about a time…”
In 2017, fans (like us) are on the lookout. Marvel promised a epic conclusion to her Infinite sagaan apotheosis after a decade of good and loyal service. Thanos’ plan was held in a dozen films. His arrival was promised in rather learned and civil War post-writer has put the team in a state that truly saves their reunion.
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When the company published a video of a few minutes on February 11, to formalize the start of filming the film of the Russo brothers, it is mainly a question of returning to the path traveled and giving some clues to what the future reserves for spectators. We find Robert Downey Jr, Chris Pratt and Tom Holland in front of a huge decor and the directors Joe and Anthony Russo in interview. Everyone recalls the singularity of this project, everyone is enthusiastic about the idea of seeing these characters finally rubbing shoulders with the cinema. So far, the guards and the Avengers had not crossed. Iron Man and Captain were cold.
A year later, spectators are there. THE Previews display full in France as in the rest of the world and there is no doubt that the first part of the Diptych will mark the history of MCU And more broadly pop culture. In the dark, when the fanfare is replaced by a distress call from the Asgardian vessel, fans that sleep in it awaken and stir. It is there, the moment that we have been waiting for since the Chitauris invaded New York in front of Joss Whedon’s camera. We are far from imagining that the proposal of the Russo brothers would shake up the balance of the franchise. Frankly, we even considered that Marvel took a break of several years after the final ofEndgame. Yes, we were probably a little naive …
Marvel can’t do better …
Infinity War et Endgame placed the bar so high that it seems now out of reach. How to do better than the heartbreaking disappearance of half a universe? How to shock with the death of a hero when the dead can come back again and again to sacrifice themselves about twentieth time? We talk about you Loki. Who can still be surprised by the arrival of the X-Men when Doctor Strange 2 involved them and that they were at the epicenter of Deadpool & Wolverine ?
No, if there is one thing that surprised us during the long and direct direct ofAvengers : Doomsdayit is that no start of interest was felt among Marvel aficionados that we were not so long ago. Nothing has been able to tickle the child who lies dormant in us, nothing has been able to erase this impression of a failed party with elders from the school. We grew up, and we have nothing in common.
We even worry about seeing the number of characters announced for Doomsdayto know how the narration will be able to exploit them all without grazing indigestion. In Infinity Warthere were no less than 25 main characters and just as many secondary. 27 names were divided yesterday … And Marvel already suggests that others will be announced in the coming months. It must be said that some sorely lack the call, in the image of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, which we nevertheless imagined at the epicenter of the story.
A priori, this row of chairs is not surprising, since Secret Wars was already a dantesque event on glossy paper. But even with a film which should cheerfully exceed three hours, Our heroes will have to play elbows. They will not have a number of comic book numbers or series episodes to deliver their story. It is all the more true that Doomsday does not take advantage of the advance that Infinity War. His intrigue is based on a phase at best incomplete, at worst chaotic. Until recently, it was indeed the arrival of Kang the Conqueror that Kevin Feige was preparing. It is for this reason that he appeared in Ant-man and the wasp: Quantumaniawhy that one of its variants was at the epicenter of Loki South Disney+.
Doctor Fatalis, he has not yet been entitled to a post-key scene. Proof if one needed one that the house of ideas is moving forward, Brave New World did not pay the luxury of even mentioning his name. Seven years earlier, the personality of Thanos had been built on several films, through the journey of Gamora, Drax and even Loki. Doomsday starts from a white leaf for a result that we do not hope as damn as phases 4 and 5 of the MCU.
Suspense? What to do?
But rather than speculating what could or could not be the next film Avengerslet’s go back to what we know about Doomsday. The event broadcast yesterday, in addition to having been punctuated by foreseeable announcements, recalls that Marvel Do not want to make films that will be released before the return of his mastodon. Evidence if it needed one of the little interest that the firm carries to Thunderbolts* et The Fantastic Fourthe names of the central actors and actresses of the two films were formalized in the casting of Doomsday. For the suspense, we will go back.
In the second case, one could easily suspect it in view of the importance that Reed Richards and Sue Storm have in the history of Doctor Fatalis. For Thunderbolts* Nevertheless, it is much more complicated. Marvel confirmed that none of these protagonists would die in Jake Schreier’s film. The studio even suggests that Lewis Pullman is not what the last trailer suggested. We had already pointed out that the promotional campaign of Captain America : Brave New World was incomprehensible, Marvel does it again and confirms that there is no longer any question of surprising the spectators but of giving them a specific menu of the film that they will see a few months later. She will still ask the first spectators not to spoil the next ones, you still have to have something to spoil …
Now, will we be there 29 avril 2026as a professional conscience? Yes. Because the Marvel machine is well oiled and the franchise took us hostage and holds us with our most naughty defect: curiosity. Faced with all the challenges that the Russo brothers and the scriptwriter Stephen McFeely will have to overcome, we can only look forward to discovering if all these beautiful people will transform the essay. And it is undoubtedly there that Marvel has succeeded, the fate of the characters (and the actors) matters so much that we do not let our disappointment make us break completely with this franchise loss of speed. Stockholm syndrome? No doubt.
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