There’s a number of armchair quarterbacking concerning the state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe today, and what the corporate is doing proper, and what they may very well be doing higher. One critique I haven’t heard a lot that I feel is truthful and maybe extra vital than it might seem: The early Marvel motion pictures had been closely related. Every one appeared to guide into the following and characters didn’t disappear for lengthy. Tony Stark confirmed up within the very subsequent film, The Unimaginable Hulk. Hawkeye was in Thor earlier than he was in The Avengers. Captain America flowed instantly into The Avengers, and so forth.
Today it’s not oncommon for Marvel to go years between appearances by standard characters. It’s been three years and counting since we noticed the Imaginative and prescient on the finish of WandaVision; it’s been nearly three full years since Shang-Chi’s Ten Rings began giving off a beacon for some purpose that’s nonetheless unexplained. And we haven’t seen the brand new Black Panther, Shuri, since her debut within the position in Wakanda Perpetually nearly two years in the past.
It takes so lengthy for these threads and characters to return that the viewers can overlook about individuals and subplots completely. Will we ever even see Shuri once more? Black Panther star Letitia Wright hinted on The View — with out giving freely something particular — that “there’s lots to … lots developing” for the character within the MCU.
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Wright additionally referred to as Shuri one in every of her “favourite characters,” and described her as a “blessing.”
Whether or not or not there’s ever one other direct Black Panther sequel, one assumes Shuri must be a key member of the upcoming Avengers sequels; Marvel at the moment has two such movies on their schedule though the primary has been delayed already, and is reportedly within the technique of present process a serious artistic overhaul after the firing of Jonathan Majors, who was to star because the time-traveling Kang within the movies. Black Panther: Wakanda Perpetually, headlined by Wright, grossed $859 million worldwide.
The subsequent MCU film, Deadpool & Wolverine, is scheduled to open in theaters on July 26. You’ll be able to watch Wright’s look on The View beneath.
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