Thor: Ragnarok
Avengers 4is the opulent climax of the MCU - will it see the end of Marvel ’s patented " Phase " structure ? The mega - dealership is currently thick in phase angle 3 , but its future Phase 4 and beyond remains unclear .
There are six more films in the current run planned : Thor : Ragnarok , then in 2018Black Panther , Avengers : Infinity WarandAnt - Man and the Wasp , with Brie Larson’sCaptain Marveland anuntitledAvengersfilmto observe in 2019 . After that , there’sSpider - Man : Homecoming 2and a presently un - datedGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 3,but what res publica the MCU will be in after the epic squad - up ofAvengers 4is indecipherable . According to Kevin Feige , it ’ll in spades be different .
Screen Rantrecently caught up with the Marvel super - producer at theRagnarokjunket and discussed where the long - condition goal of the dealership lied :
Screen harangue : You ’ve coif out these kinds of radiation diagram . These form . Do you find curtail by the phases , or go forward into phase angle 4 , is it even still phase 4 , or is it just going to start being a heap unlike now ? Because this felt very much like a new generation of a Thor plastic film kind of .
Kevin Feige : ripe !
Screen Rant : Like a passage of the torch it seemed like to be .
Kevin Feige : Well , I cogitate that ’s good and I think that ’s true , even fit back to Shane Black ’s Iron Man 3 , I cerebrate it was a tonal shift . I think for sure with what Joe and Anthony Russo did with Civil War , the Captain America trilogy we always attempt to do that , and I think really where the focus of the whole studio apartment for the next two years is finishing stage 3 . Completing a really unprecedented 22 movie inter - connected epos , and that is what we ’re thinking about . We have mind . We have things for what chance next , but it will really be a end to 22 films .
ForRagnarok , it ’s clear that the film is a big variety from Thor ’s late solo jaunt , expanding the compass with a different tone , as well as helping typeset the stage for the rest of Phase 3 .
As for what come up next , Feige does n’t say explicitly but reaffirms thattheInfinity Warevent is a real mop up . But what does the Phase 4 shift mean ? It ’s safe to assume that novel characters like Captain Marvel and Black Panther will take on a more prominent role as MCU stalwarts like Captain America and Iron Man will cede the spot to them . Perhaps Marvel ’s Phase 4 ( and beyond ) will even sport new iteration of the grinder , like Bucky Barnes or Sam Wilson as Captain America or Riri Williams as Ironheart .
But , could it see a crowing structural change ? After what will then be eleven years of set - up has been paid off , Marvel and Feige may need to seek something unlike and focalize on telling less operatic , overhanging stories . If so , the Phase notion would by all odds feel defunct .
