In spite of having all the comic book movies ever on the docket for the foreseeable future, Marvel has just announced there’ll be one less property making its way to the silver screen–at least for now. Yesterday evening it was confirmed by the studio that the previously planned-for Inhumans movie (which was initially scheduled for a 2018 release as indicated in the photo above, then pushed back a year to 2019) is now being pulled off the release schedule altogether–probably indefinitely.
In an interview with Collider, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige attributed the film’s initial delay to another famous franchise that Disney had scheduled for a similarly-timed release: the new Indiana Jones sequel. “Walt Disney Company has announced an Indiana Jones film for right around that same time. So I think it will shuffle off the current date that it’s on right now. How far down it shuffles, I’m not sure yet.”
While Inhumans had first been announced in tandem with some of Marvel’s other planned films, like Spider-Man and the Ant-Man sequel, the numerous delays for a variety of reasons–including the rumor that Marvel may not want to overlap too heavily with the Inhuman storyline on its TV show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.–have only served to create a perfect storm of indecision as far as a release date is concerned. And even while Marvel Studios has several secret projects listed well into 2020 and beyond, Inhumans may just be one of those projects that sits on the shelf collecting the proverbial dust.
(via /Film)
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Published: Apr 23, 2016 03:30 pm