Spider-Man: Homecoming
The Marvel Cinematic Universe ’s continuity was put in question this summer withSpider - Man : Homecoming ’s unclear location in the timeline , but Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige articulate an official timeline is on the style . In Marvel and Sony ’s first joint - speculation bringing the third version of Spider - Man to the big concealment , many wondered what possible job could arise as two studio stress to work together for the with child good of the grapheme . What was not highly considered thanks to Marvel ’s intimacy wasHomecomingmessing up the MCU timeline , but it sure seemed like it did .
The trouble did not derive with just a undivided scene , but the overall timeline of the story . Thanks to an eight - yr clip start between the upshot ofThe AvengersandSpider - Man : Homecoming’sas revealed in first act , fans instantly were take back by the movie ’s primary story presumptively direct place in 2020 - and not 2017 or 2018 or originally where it seemedCaptain America : Civil War(which now precedesHomecoming ) in reality occur .
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We , and many other curious fans , have attempt to plug into the dots to infer the current MCU timeline - including inour equipment failure of how thing may judder out- and so we went into our interview with the mastermind of the timeline himself today .
Screen Rant spoke to Kevin Feige as part ofThor : Ragnarok ’s media junket today and need what the tidy sum is with the timeline and how Spider - Man ’s time jump makes sentience . Feige admits that they were taken aback by the confusion and obsession over the timeline , so much so that they are design on releasing an prescribed timeline in the near hereafter which will make thing clean .
Spider - Man : Homecoming had some leg in the MCU continuity in the form of the ' eight years later ' moment . This has created public debate with fans over what the timeline really is . Everything seemed elongate previously You had Iron Man 3 in 2013 Captain America : Civil War in 2016 . How is this all work out timeline wise ?
Kevin Feige : All of that argumentation has boost us . We are going to be release an official , and I ’m not sure when , or in what format , an official timeline . It ’ll probably be apart of ah , I do n’t know , aside of an in print that you may pen up out and take care at . But do to say , only in limited cases do we ever actually say what the actual geezerhood are because we never want to be tie down to a particular year and I think people assume that whenever the pic is released is when is when the movie is assume blank space , and that is not the case .
Spider - Man : Homecomingdirector Jon Watts antecedently made it known that somewhere in the halls of the Marvel officesan official MCU coil existsthat plots out ever incident to occur in this universe , just so they do n’t make any error . If Marvel were to release a version of this that covers all of the released films and Marvel One - Shots it would sure aid alleviate the minds of those occupy that persistence is somehow broken .
With Marvel Studios currently producing three feature article films a year beginning here in 2017 , making it light when each takes topographic point is not just good , but necessary to tolerate the tale to interconnect . Earlier this year for instance , Guardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2took position back in 2014,Homecomingat some peak in the time to come presumably , andRagnarok ’s placement is unclear toooutside if us knowing it ’s " a couple of years " afterAvengers : Age of Ultron .
That said , Marvel ’s motive to accost this issue at all comes from the grand plan , the interconnected universe used to tell this long - form story that culminates withAvengers 4 in 2019 . As smashing as the portion out universe is , situations like these continue to bring up argumentation over just how tie in these movies should be ( not to mention the Marvel television set programming which is ignore by the film side ) . The less connected they are to each other , the more wiggle room the movies have for originative exemption and to stick out alone however , but since the MCU has fly high ( in part ) due to that persistence , it ca n’t go back on it now .
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