Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a group of American superhero films and television series produced by Marvel Studios based on characters that appear in publications by Marvel Comics.
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29 Facts About Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four
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Phase Four began with the series WandaVision, which premiered in January 2021, while the first theatrical film in this phase is Black Widow, which was released in July 2021 by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
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The release schedule of Phase Four was changed several times due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four starring Iman Vellani, and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law starring Tatiana Maslany.
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Feige said Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four hoped to reveal some upcoming films after the release of Avengers: Endgame, with The Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger later indicating that Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four would reveal its slate of post-Avengers: Endgame films in mid-2019.
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In September 2018, Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four Studios was revealed to be developing several limited series for the service, to be centered on "second-tier" characters from the MCU films who had not and were unlikely to star in their own films; the actors who portrayed the characters in the films were expected to reprise their roles for the series.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four said that new characters introduced in the Disney+ series could go on to appear in films.
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In July 2019, Marvel Studios held a panel at San Diego Comic-Con where Feige announced the full Phase Four slate.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four confirmed that there would be connections between the films and series, with the events of WandaVision directly setting up Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Loki tying into it.
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Feige stated that these ten projects were the full Phase Four slate at that point, despite Marvel already developing further projects at that time, such as the long-in-development Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four credited the studio's "long lead plan" for being able to avoid any creative shifts to their Phase Four plans because of the pandemic, only shuffling release dates and production schedules.
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In December 2020, Marvel Studios adjusted Thor: Love and Thunder and Black Panther II back in its schedule, to May 6 and July 8,2022, respectively, and announced Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Fantastic Four were in development, along with the Disney+ series Secret Invasion, Ironheart, and Armor Wars, The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, and the series of short films I Am Groot.
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In late June 2022, Feige indicated that Phase Four was nearing its conclusion, stating audiences would begin to see where the next saga of the MCU would be heading, and that there had been many clues in the phase to what that would be.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four said Marvel Studios would be a "little more direct" on their future plans in the following months to provide audiences with "the bigger picture [so they] can see a tiny, tiny bit more of the roadmap".
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four announced that Phase Four would be the first phase, along with Phases Five and Six, of The Multiverse Saga.
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At the 2022 D23 Expo, Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four confirmed the Halloween special as Werewolf by Night.
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Teyonah Parris plays an adult version of Monica Rambeau, who appeared as a child in Captain Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four, played by Akira Akbar, while Randall Park and Kat Dennings reprise their MCU roles of Jimmy Woo and Darcy Lewis in the series.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four premiered on June 8,2022, and ran for six episodes, concluding on July 13.
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In December 2020, Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four Studios announced that James Gunn would write and direct a new television special featuring the Guardians of the Galaxy, with the main cast returning.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four is set after Moon Knight, one to two years after Endgame.
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In early January 2021, Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four announced their "Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four Must Haves" program, which reveals new toys, games, books, apparel, home decor, and other merchandise from Hasbro, Lego, Funko, Her Universe, Loungefly and others based on the episodes of Disney+ series WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, What If.
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Paul Gitter, senior vice president of Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four Licensing called the program "an unprecedented weekly celebration" with products that "authentically celebrate each new episode".
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four discussed some fan concerns that Phase Four was not as cohesive as the projects in the first three MCU phases, with most of those films building towards the Infinity Saga storyline, and felt that this was impacting on the box office of the new films.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four suggested that Marvel Studios "regroup, re-think and get these movies back on track".
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four highlighted Moon Knight lack of connections to the rest of the MCU, and discussed how Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness did not address the events of Loki and Spider-Man: No Way Home as some had expected.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four added that "this sense of aimlessness feels odd to an audience that has, over a decade, been trained to connect the dots and see how each of Marvel's releases connects to the others", with the films and Disney+ series "rarely [feeling] like they're in conversation with each other".
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four did note that the multiverse plays a significant role in Loki, What If.
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Belloni later said that Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four needed "to figure out how to generate Avenger-level interest from non-Avenger properties", and that the then-forthcoming releases of Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four's next Disney+ series Ms.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four Studios: Assembled premiered on Disney+ on March 12,2021, with a special for WandaVision, followed by additional specials for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the first season of Loki, Black Widow, the first season of What If.
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