While the Marvel mantra has always been “It’s All Connected”, it’s become increasingly clear over the years that there’s been a big divide between the feature film and TV side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in that Kevin Feige and company at Marvel Studios appear to have very little interest in what Marvel Television has been doing on the small screen.
Well, all that is about to change thanks to the upcoming Disney+ streaming service, which is set to launch a number of series produced by Marvel Studios (as opposed to Marvel Television), which will feature the likes of Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), Vision (Paul Bettany), Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Falcon (Anthony Mackie) and the Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan). And, as Feige has confirmed, said shows will be “entirely interwoven” with the big screen side of the MCU.
“It will be MCU proper,” Feige tells SlashFilm. “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+ 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.”
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That’s certainly good news for fans, and will allow Marvel to fully flesh out its characters between movies. Of course, it also means that a Disney+ subscription is going to be essential for anyone who wants to keep up to speed with the MCU.
