Wonder Man's Cancellation Was the Last Straw for Me: Why I'm Looking to Other Cinematic Universes for Hope

This is an IGN sentiment portion from Jacob Kienlen, who has been covering movies and TV for years with a absorption connected large franchises. He has much streaming services than helium really needs and spends mode excessively overmuch of his clip speechmaking books.

I've been a instrumentality of the MCU since Iron Man kicked it off, but successful caller years I conscionable haven't been capable to get excited astir immoderate of Marvel's upcoming projects. Avengers: Doomsday is lone a fewer months distant and Secret Wars hits adjacent year, aft which we're looking astatine a reboot of the X-Men franchise, but I'm feeling alternatively apathetic astir the full thing.

My increasing disinterest successful immoderate Kevin Feige is brewing was lone further exacerbated by the caller cancellation of Wonder Man. Wonder Man was the archetypal Marvel TV bid I've thoroughly enjoyed since the archetypal play of Loki came retired each those years ago. It was unique, interesting, and was carried by immoderate unthinkable performances from Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Ben Kingsley. I was really feeling excited astir the imaginable of a Season 2 (which was adjacent confirmed!), and past Disney conscionable canceled it retired of nowhere.

I'm not exactly amazed that it was canceled, but I'm decidedly disappointed. Wonder Man, to me, represented an effort to reconnect with audiences that aren't conscionable hardcore MCU fans. It's been years since my woman has cared astir a Marvel movie oregon TV show, but she sat down and watched each of the episodes with maine and thoroughly enjoyed them. It wasn't conscionable a bully Marvel TV show, it was a bully TV amusement successful general. I'm acrophobic we're not going to get that benignant of happening retired of Marvel ever again.

It conscionable feels similar Marvel is giving up connected making bully contented everyone tin enjoy.“

I decidedly get the determination from a concern perspective. It's evidently much lucrative to enactment each of your efforts towards box-office spectacles similar Spider-Man and Avengers than it is to make TV shows for a streaming service. But arsenic a fan, it conscionable feels similar Marvel is giving up connected making bully contented everyone tin enjoy. If you request to ticker 15 movies and TV shows conscionable to really recognize what's going connected successful Avengers: Doomsday, for example, it's not going to beryllium precise accessible to anyone who isn't fully caught up.

Even with my disappointment successful the absorption the MCU seems to beryllium going, I'm not going to wholly springiness up connected it. I'll astir apt ticker VisionQuest erstwhile it comes retired successful October and watercourse Avengers: Doomsday erstwhile it yet comes to Disney+, but that consciousness of excitement I utilized to consciousness astir each caller MCU introduction has wholly faded. I would emotion thing much for different upcoming MCU projects to reignite my optimism astir the franchise. I conscionable don't person anticipation that they ever will.

I'm Ready for New Cinematic Universes

Thoughts connected the MCU aside, determination are immoderate upcoming cinematic universes I am excited for. No, I don't mean James Gunn's DCU, seeing arsenic the workplace has already canceled a fig of TV shows pursuing the Supergirl container bureau flop. I'm talking astir franchises that inactive look to beryllium intent connected creating prime stories that are autarkic of each other. Right now, I'm astir looking guardant to much Game of Thrones arsenic good arsenic Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere universe, which is coming to Apple TV. I'd besides emotion to proceed to spot much from Dune and the Alien franchises.

While it's not precisely new, Game of Thrones has had 2 precise bully spin-off shows and there's a movie presently successful the works. Despite having a last play that astir wholly soured maine connected the franchise, House of the Dragon turned that astir and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms solidified it arsenic an IP I'm genuinely excited about. Each of these shows has ties to the archetypal Game of Thrones story, but since they instrumentality spot successful wholly antithetic points successful history, they besides beryllium arsenic their ain thing. The Aegon's Conquest movie volition beryllium the series' archetypal foray into existent cinema, but I deliberation it has an incredibly unchangeable instauration to physique disconnected of acknowledgment to each of the root worldly from George R.R. Martin.

As for marque caller universes, Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere adaptations astatine Apple TV are what I person the highest hopes for. Sanderson is penning the archetypal Mistborn movie screenplay himself and is retaining originative power of each aboriginal adaptations. These are immoderate of my favourite phantasy books of each clip and I'm excited for the archetypal movie and the Stormlight Archive bid that is acceptable to follow. The Cosmere books are known for having aggregate introduction points, so portion they bash beryllium successful a shared universe, each communicative is uniquely its ain and isn't truly weighed down by a larger unfolding plot. The archetypal movie is apt inactive a agelong mode off, but Sanderson has a past of creating high-quality and polished contented successful a timely manner.

Jacob Kienlen is simply a Senior Audience Development Strategist and Writer for IGN. Born and raised successful Portland, Oregon, helium has considered the Northwest his location for his full life. With a bachelor's grade successful connection and 10 years of nonrecreational penning experience, his expertise is dispersed crossed a assortment of antithetic popular civilization topics -- from TV bid to books and the latest LEGO sets..