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Kevin Feige Clarifies That the Marvel Disney+ Shows Will Be "Proper MCU"

Published Wed, 27 Feb 2019 22:25:50 -0600

The Marvel Cinematic Univers made the jump to the small screen in 2013 with Agents of SHEID. There have been plenty of shows in the last six years but there is one thing almost all of them have in common; they are in the Marvel universe but in name only. Agents of SHIELD became a better show when they leaned into the fact that no Marvel movie star was ever going to show up so why not make our own weird little corner of the universe. The other shows have brief mentions or background details but nothing specific.

Now Marvel is creating their own shows for Disney+ and these shows will feature characters from the movies played by the actors from the movies. Despite all of this it's been a little unclear just how connected to the movies these shows will be but Kevin Feige went on the record to /Film that these shows will be "proper" MCU.

"It will be MCU proper. Sometimes it will take place as Captain Marvel did in a time before current events, sometimes it will take place during. What I will say, whatever happens in those, in those shows and with characters that have been in the films, they'll undergo transformations, not Loki necessarily, but will undergo transformations in their series and those transformations will be reflected in their next film appearances because we've been developing long form narrative stories for Disney plus at the exact same time that we've been developing a post-[Avengers: Endgame] MCU, we've been able to do something we've never done before, which is interweave them from the start, from the plant."

Marvel has always been pretty good at exploring different genres but Feige has said he's really looking forward to exploring all sorts of interesting things with these shows. A character like Loki could be in many different time periods being the MCU equivalent of the Doctor.

"So it's pretty exciting to be 10 plus years into the MCU and have an entirely new outlet to tell stories with new characters, with existing characters. And the way we like to do nineties action movie, political thrillers, heist movies, you hear us talk about this all the time, and now we get to do play with a medium even more in a multi-episode arc, which we're excited about."

Disney+ is set to launch this fall in the United States and there will be Marvel shows based on the character of Loki, Vision and Scarlet Witch, and Winter Soldier and Falcon. There are currently no release dates for those shows.

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