Is Avengers: Infinity War the end of the road for Marvel movies?

The beauty of it is that Marvel has built this universe in such a way that it won't be ultimately reliant on a constant cross-over "Avengers" movie for it to be a sustainable movie franchise. green arrow and black canary costumes I think this has been Kevin Feige's vision all along (pardon the pun). Yes, phases 1-3 seems to be all about solo movies that help build up to an Avengers ensemble movie every 3 years, but solo movies like Captain America: The Winter Soldier and its upcoming sequel Captain America: Civil War, and to a lesser extent the recent Ant-Man (film), has all shown that it doesn't have to be an "Avengers" movie to showcase multiple characters. injustice 2 joker costumes

Marvel is now playing the shared universe angle to its fullest potential, a right they very much earned at this point after multiple movie successes and a continuously growing audience.

In other words, Marvel is now in a position to do movie crossovers whenever the hell they want, regardless if its an ensemble or supposedly "solo" movie. This is no different from the set up in the comics. Certain major storylines spill over to individual books which may also feature guest characters or teams. At this point, it seems the only thing that can limit Marvel is the budget to pay all those actors to get them to appear, and the film rights to some of their major characters that are still with Fox. But even with that, they have managed to do a work-around for the lack of "mutants" in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by introducing the Inhumans and the idea behind terrigenesis. Which is why they've chosen 2019 as just the right time to get a movie out about the Inhumans after all the dust settles from Infinity War. It is a subtle means to balloon their super-powered population on-screen.

And not just that. Let's not forget the bigger universe (pardon the pun again) that Guardians of the Galaxy (film) opened up, and for sure it's gonna be a lot more bigger after the Doctor Strange movie comes out, a guy who deals with multiple dimensions, parallel universes, alternate timelines, and all manner of grandfather paradox-inducing smorgasbord on a daily basis. It's gonna be wild.

Then we're gonna have characters like Black Panther and Captain Marvel introduced, which is clearly grounds for opening up more possibilities in terms of setting, themes and tone. (See Jonathan De Guzman's answer to Would there be any story left for Marvel Cinematic Universe after Thanos is defeated?) And of course, who can forget that deal of all deals that finally allowed Sony to let Spider-Man play in Marvel's playground. It brought everything much closer to how it was in the comics.

The Avengers team itself was not meant to have a fixed roster. I'm pretty sure the core members of Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and Hulk (as portrayed by RDJ, Evans, Hemsworth and Ruffalo respectively) will not last past the Infinity War movies. We may not even see Evan's Cap after Civil War. Superhero teams are like professional sports teams as well - every incarnation gets its own set of star players or fantasy lineup.

And as Cliff Gilley said, Marvel's plan stretches all the way to 2028! By that time I'd be in my freakin' forties, about the same age as Kevin Feige now, and the guy's just getting started! That's how crazy - and visionary - this guy is.

As the years go by, even the departure of the corresponding actors from the role due to age concerns can even be used as an in-universe analogue to our heroes aging and retiring, and for a new, younger generation of actors to take on the roles of new characters, or replace the roles for established giants (as in the case of "passing on the mantle" for characters like Thor or Captain America). Again, just like how it worked in the comics, when recent events gave us a different dude wielding the shield, and a different woman throwing the hammer.

There's just so much story to tell. And when you've got that much story, the road could only get longer.

In a span of 6 years between 1977 - 1983, we got the original Star Wars trilogy. We didn't get another dose of story from that universe until 16 years later - now THAT'S a hiatus. And even then, the results were not even that great. And now 7 years from the last canonical installment (that's another hiatus right there), we are getting another trilogy between 2015-2019. Marvel is working harder than that. Marvel's legacy in film is gonna be more like James Bond. With 24 movies since 1962, some of the individual movies may not have aged well, but the character and concept have proven timeless again and again as as there had always been an audience for it. The longest break between James Bond movies was 6 years, from 1989's Licence to Kill to 1995's GoldenEye. That certainly wasn't the end of the road for Eon Productions. They've managed to sustain the franchise up to the present day, and even further into the future. And they've been doing it for just one character. What Marvel is doing is something bigger because of the LOAD of characters that they can either portray on-screen as continually evolving, die-off or written-off and replaced, or even re-introduced entirely, depending on how it serves the bigger-universe connectivity. charlie and the chocolate factory anime