re: Marvel’s ‘Inhumans’ Removed From Disney’s Release Schedule

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a simple date shuffle isn't always an easy thing to do.

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Three years out is pretty simple to do. They've done it before and will do it again.

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It's not that east to just move a movie like that. August is not even a normal date for tent pole movies. Usually, August is considered a dump month by movie studios b/c they believe for various reasons it won't do as well financially or critically. Other dump months include September, January, and February. The majority of the time if a movie is released in one of those months you can guess that its not going to be a big hit and probably be right.

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Yeah if this was 10 years ago, you may have a point, but studios have gotten wise to the fact that if you have a movie that people are interested in seeing, then they will go see it any time of the year.

The Lego Movie cleared $250 million domestically, $60 WW back in 2014. Last year Kingsman did $125/400 (not to mention both SpongeBob and Fifty Shades clearing $320 and $570 worldwide). As for August, there have been hits in that month going back as far as 1999 with the Sixth Sense. If Guardians can hit $330 million/$770 in August, then I'm sure Inhumans could have done the same.

From a business point of view, Disney is printing money with the MCU. Like I said, the MCU is their second biggest revenue generator right now behind Star Wars. Pixar is after that, but they already have their Summer 2019 release set in The Incredibles. Besides Disney always builds their calendar around their tentpoles. Inhumans would have been a tentpole for them.

Like I said, if I had to bet, it was a creative decision, not necessarily a business decision. Antman, Black Panther, Dr. Strange, Captain Marvel, and Spiderman,will all be lined up for sequels at that point. That's not even factoring in the core Avengers.

What?!?!?!? No. I don't get it. Maybe the MCU gang is getting fatigued?

Inhumans was originally supposed to come out AFTER part 2.

Captain Marvel, on the other hand, is a key part.

What I Was Told About The Inhumans Movie Last Year

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Last year, at the New York Comic Con, I was told by well connected senior individuals that a memo had gone out to Marvel senior staffers saying that the Inhumans move was to be “deprioritised” at Disney/Marvel.

I was told that it was expected that the Inhumans movie would be delayed, dropped off the slate and eventually done away with, with the reason to be given that they didn’t find the right director with the right vision or some such.

But the real reason was that Inhumans was a Isaac Perlmutter-pushed project and was only on the slate in the first place if Kevin Feige was allowed his own Captain Marvel project on the slate, something Perlmutter wasn’t as keen on. And last year the two split badly and Perlmutter and the rest of the comics side of the company were removed from involvement with the film side of Marvel Studios (though they kept the TV shows).

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I have a bad feeling that after all the current stuff Marvel has planned is finished, the movies will start to be really bad. I knew the comic and movie sides were separate now, but I hope it isn't as bad as it seems to be.

Disney could end up at a place where the names and images are used but are completely disconnected from the actual source material.

Agents of Shield is about to go into its fourth season. If it gets a 5th full season, it hits syndication after 100 episodes. If Marvel coincides the show with the end of phase 3, they could end the series and then go the "Star Trek" route, rolling up the main cast into the Inhumans movie cast OR going the "Serenity" route

Season 4: 2016-2017
Season 5: 2017-2018
Season 6: 2018-2019
Season 7 (Final Season): 2019-2020

Rumor is, it was pushed back because Marvel just locked in Fantastic Four.