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Kevin Feige Says the Disney+ Shows Will Be Very Important to the Post-Avengers: Endgame MCU

Published Thu, 28 Feb 2019 22:35:30 -0600

What the Marvel Cinematic Universe is going to look like after Avengers: Endgame is very much unknown. There are plenty of projects in varying levels of developments but it sounds like being a little more cohesive is the plan. At the moment, there are the Marvel movies and Marvel TV. Aside from some small details these two rarely crossover in any real way. For some shows, like Agents of SHIELD, they have benefitted because it forced them to adapt into its own thing. Now the show is the longest-running Marvel TV show in its own little corner of the universe.

It sounds like Marvel wants to do a lot more with TV and movies crossing over with the move to Disney+. Kevin Feige spoke to Collider and he talked about how excited he was to try a new outlet to tell stories.

"All the above, yeah. I mean, I think it's gonna be story dependent, and that's what's so exciting about the streaming platform, is there aren't any rules necessarily. For us to have another outlet to tell stories, and to play with medium, and to do, not just deeper dives on characters that we've seen many times in the MCU, but haven't been able to devote six, seven, eight, nine, 10 hours to, is amazing, and is something that we've been working on for a while now. And still aren't gonna announce outside of the Loki series with Tom Hiddleston."

Feige went on to say that these shows are going to be important to the Marvel Cinematic Universe post-Avengers: Endgame.

"It's been extremely additive to the entire creative arc, not just of the Disney+ programs we're working on, but on the entire post-Endgame MCU. Because we've been able to weave them. We've been able to, for the first time, conceive of them together, and they will be intertwined with each other."

It's going to be interesting to see how these shows differ from the shows we've been getting in various different platforms for the last six years or so. However, we hope that Marvel doesn't ax the TV side entirely. Agents of SHIELD might not have Quake joining up with the Avengers anytime soon but the universe is massive. There is no reason we can't have some shows that never really crossover with the movies. In fact, there is no faster way to make this massive universe feel small than to connect everything too much. Maybe the Avengers don't need to care about what's going on in Los Angeles and we can keep the Runaways. Maybe the issues in New Orleans don't merit them intervening and Cloak and Dagger can continue. It's a big world; let's hope Marvel continues to explore it.

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