The answer to the million dollar question: Who can save Marvel?

In wonderinstead of keeping their heads to themselves, they are wracking their brains to find a solution to the debacle, both artistic and box office, of what has been the most successful film franchise in Hollywood history.

With a problematic 2023: the new Ant man It didn’t work and ousted Argentina’s Victoria Alonso from one of Marvel’s presidencies; The wonders was the lowest-grossing Marvel film in history, for 2024, started with a weak Mrs. Web and is expected to hit the $20 million mark in North America this weekend, which it would surpass Bob Marley, the legendOnly one premiere is announced: Deadpool and Wolverine.

It’s clear that the replacements Marvel made didn’t work. The first, in my opinion, disappearances of Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man and Chris Evans as Captain America brought more nostalgia than replacement.

Add in Chris Hemsworth taking a sabbatical and the deaths of Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow and, tragically, Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther, plus the closure of Guardians of the Galaxy, and what’s left?

Spider-Man, obviously. But the new film, in which the villain to be defeated will be Morlun, is still in the script writing phase.

Christopher Nolan wasn’t wrong when, as he recalls Varietyannounced the hiring of Robert Downey Jr. to play Tony Stark Hombre de Hierro It was “one of the most important casting decisions ever made in the history of the movie business.”

Hombre de Hierro fueled the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the next 11 years, with Downey Jr. appearing in 10 films that grossed $12.5 billion, before Stark died in Avengers: Endgamein 2019.

And, in one of these, the recent hiring of interpreters of the new Fantastic Four could add to this statement the director of Oppenheimer (for which Robert Downey Jr. was nominated for an Oscar as best supporting actor).

The 4 saviors

We see. Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, like Downey, have starred in very successful films or series: the Chilean Pascal with The Mandalorian AND The last of usKirby appeared in the two most recent films of Mission ImpossibleQuinn inside Stranger things and Moss-Bachrach Andor.

Another commonality: None of the four starred in a blockbuster action film before signing with Marvel.

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby imagined Fantastic Four for the first time in 1961, launching the Marvel universe as we know it today. And there are those who dare to suggest that these 4 characters come to replace 4 other Marvel characters, who no longer exist: Reed Richards (Pascal) in place of Stark; Johnny Storm’s Human Torch as the warrior that was Captain America. The Invisible Woman (Kirby) would take Captain Marvel’s place if he fell from grace. And of course, Ben Grimm (Moss-Bachrach) is a monster like Hulk, but without uncontrollable rage.

Marvel announced the hiring of the four artists on Wednesday, February 14, Valentine’s Day. He showed them in an illustration where they appear in a living room, like their characters. There’s something retro there: the furniture and the magazine life that Ben is reading. Could it be that the shares are transported to the 1960s?

Nothing is known other than the release date (2027: an eternity) of Avengers: Secret Wars, but it’s imagined that the Fantastic Four will join the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which would involve multiple parallel universes. This is a clue that a new Marvel cinematic universe is being born, with the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, as suggested by the post-credits scene of The wonders?