Nate Moore has grown to become incredibly useful as a spokesperson for Marvel Studios while Kevin Feige steps back from the spotlight. The latter may well be tinkering away at his ingenious creations back at the studio’s workshop as MCU Phase Five and Six with their massive slate of unprecedented movies now prepare to arrive at the theatres in the new year.
But, in the meantime, Nate Moore has been building up all-around anticipation surrounding the Marvel projects to come and working away at building back the studio’s credibility as a franchise that is still able to deliver success after Phase Four.
Nate Moore Discusses Marvel Studios’ Incredible Lineup
While appearing on an episode of The Town podcast, Nate Moore divulges the future that he has in store for the Marvel franchise and its coming saga of stories. But while the fans wait for the promised roster of the Multiversal chaos and world-ending reign of Kang the Conqueror, there seems to be no potential lineup beyond Phase Six. When asked about whether Marvel is headed for a possible end, Nate Moore claims:
“I mean, I think it can go for a long time. I think we have to continue to… We can’t sit back on our laurels. We can’t think we have the answers. We have to continue to push the envelope as far as genre and what we’re willing to explore. But to me, Marvel movies are just movies. Our source material is just… It’d be like saying, ‘Hey, are movies about books gonna go on forever?’ Probably.”
It is also important to factor in Marvel Studios’ hosting of the X-Men & Co. at the end of Phase Five, for the first time since its genesis in 2008. The Fantastic Four team will also be foraying into the mainstream universe in Phase Six. Having arrived this late, it is hardly probable that the MCU will be closing shop leaving the F4 and the X-Men with barely enough screen time. If there is a future beyond Phase Six’s Multiverse Saga, it would be highly likely that the franchise would focus on building upon the oeuvre of these latter superhero groups.
Also read: MCU Focusing on Multiverse May Have Killed Marvel’s Young Avengers Project
The Ouroboros Effect of the Unending Marvel Franchise
While considering the mortality of one of the greatest movie franchises in cinematic history, Marvel Studios’ VP of Production & Development, Nate Moore looks quite optimistic about the future. On the other hand, it is the podcast host, Matthew Belloni’s job to question whether the CBM franchise can outlive so many great genres that have come and gone from Hollywood, despite encountering incredulous success — mostly, in Belloni’s words, genres like westerns and musicals. Moore goes on to point out —
“But, they came… it’s cyclical, right? Things come back. I think we can go for a while. We have a lot of great stuff in the pipeline and stuff, honestly, we can’t find room for. One of the great things about Disney+ was, we got to tell stories that we were like, ‘I don’t know if we’re gonna be able to tell that story.’ And now, we’re like, ‘Oh, we have another outlet?’ Because, we don’t wanna make ten movies a year. That’s gonna be bad.
Moon Knight, for instance. We’ve been talking about Moon Knight for a long time and it just couldn’t get on the slate ’cause there’s too much stuff. But all of a sudden, we have a secondary outlet where we could tell six hours of a cool Moon Knight story that otherwise doesn’t exist. And I think there are a lot of other properties that we haven’t had a chance to tell. So, I think it can go on for a while, forever’s a long time. We certainly don’t feel like we’re done.”
The optimism that Moore harbors for his franchise puts to doubt even the Aristotelian philosophy about every story having a beginning, a middle, and an end, without which a narrative would remain incomplete. And MCU, in its epic storytelling, does inhabit all the components of a proper narrative by divvying itself up — Phase 1 as the beginning. Phase 2 is the middle, and Phase 3 in its climactic Infinity Saga brings the narrative to a cathartic end. Now, after a brief respite, Marvel begins again.
MCU’s final Phase Four project, Guardians of the Galaxy: Holiday Special launches on Disney+ on November 25, 2022. Phase Five will then begin with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania premiering on 17 February 2023.
Source: The Town
