I tweeted yesterday that “MCU Journalism” clickbait is a pretty obvious formula. It’s [ACTOR] + [FAN FICTION THEORY]. Bonus points for using actors that have left their roles or mentioning the comics.
So here’s my attempt. If any of you film blogs wanna hire me, hit me up.
(Note: My first version was going to be about how the rumored to put Japanese Spider-Man into future Spider-Man crossovers BUT APPARENTLY THEY ARE ACTUALLY DOING THAT SO I GUESS I’M NOT THAT CRAZY?)
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RUMORS HEATING UP ABOUT CHRIS EVANS RETURN TO MCU.
While the former First Avenger star has been adamant that he will not be returning to the role of Captain America - stating in a recent tweet that “Sam WIlson is Captain America” - Evans has remarked that he misses working with the MCU team.
Is he hinting at a possible return to the MCU, not as Captain America, or even Steve Rogers, but as JOHNNY STORM?
In the recent MCU installment of Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, we were treated to the first MCU appearance of the Fantastic Four with Reed Richards’s appearance, so we know that the MCU people have at least been THINKING about the iconic superhero team, which has been weighed down by a series of mishandled flops in its cinematic past. So it’s possible that even if the main timeline of the MCU is missing the 4, we could see members of the 4 from other multiverses.
On top of that, we also know from Spider-Man: No Way Home that the MCU has no problem with having various versions of characters be played by other actors (when we saw the multiple Spideys). Obviously that was in part an homage to beloved movies of the past, but we know that the Fantastic 4 (and in particular, Evans’s Human Torch) have their own cult following that Disney can cash in on.
So is this just wild speculation, or is there some truth to this? I’ll leave you with this: in Spider-Man: No Way Home, the heroes are fighting on an updated Statue of Liberty that is carrying Captain America’s shield. And what happens to it?
It’s transformed from Goblin’s explosions. Bathed in fire to become something new, and yet something recognizable.
We’ll just have to see if Evans will light up the screen in the MCU once more.
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Edit: Right before I was going to post this, I wondered if someone had written this article already, and they totally had. Seriously guys, hire me for your MCU theory nonsense. I can do this all day.