Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 might be crushing it at the box office, but there are nevertheless a couple of uncomfortable or awkward truths that have to be brought to light for the sake of transparency. Elsewhere in the Marvel multiverse today, Sony loves its villains so much that the studio is taking a perfectly good Spider-hero from the comics and turning them into a bad guy in its next Spider-Verse film. And they just happen to be played by an MCU favorite.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 box office smushes Shazam! 2 into dust even as it slumps to a Marvel Studios low
On the face of it, Guardians 3‘s opening weekend could not have gone better, as its first few days at the box office not only busted out of its early expectations but also put it on course to bring home twice as much as Shazam! Fury of the Gods did in its entire run by next weekend. On the other hand, however, the threequel still hasn’t made enough cash to avoid earning the unwanted MCU record of having the lowest opening of any of the franchise’s films released in May. Something tells us it may go down better with the fandom than, say, Doctor Strange 2 or Iron Man 3, but financially, it’s a different story.
Marvel really wants us to forget James Gunn was supposed to stick around the MCU for 20 years
Remember when James Gunn was supposed to remain with the MCU to helm the next two decades of the cosmic side of the Marvel universe? No? Well, that’s good, because that’s exactly how the studio wants it. Although Guardians 3 has been promoted as the final outing for both Gunn’s Marvel career and that of the Guardians-verse he created 10 years ago, at one point, the filmmaker was proudly proclaiming he had plans for 20 years of cosmic MCU adventures. Of course, then he got fired, rehired, and ultimately jumped ship to DC. Meanwhile, Marvel seems to be shrinking away from exploring outer space…
Oscar Isaac is going back to his X-Men roots as his Across the Spider-Verse character is outed as the film’s true villain
He might be our Moon Knight now, but Oscar Isaac’s first Marvel character was, of course, the Ivan Ooze-like Apocalypse in the X-Men movie of the same name. In a surprising move, Isaac is merging his previous two roles by playing a superhero who turns out to be a bad guy in Sony’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Despite playing popular variant Spider-Man 2099, Isaac’s Miguel O’Hara has been officially confirmed as the surprise “primary antagonist” of the incoming animated sequel, thanks to his extreme methods to save the multiverse, putting Miguel at odds with Miles Morales. Color us intrigued!
A Secret Invasion star might be lamenting that it took 13 years for his dream MCU team-up to be realized, but you won’t have to wait that long for more of the latest Marvel news to invade your life.