Marvel now said to be overhauling two future projects

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According to new reports, Marvel Studios has gone back to the drawing board with two of its longer-term projects: Midnight Suns and Armor Wars.


As it heads into 2025, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) seems to have regained some of its former momentum after suffering a pretty torrid couple of years.

One of those projects is Midnight Suns, a team-up movie that would bring together some of Marvelā€™s more supernatural characters, including Blade, Morbius and at least two versions of Ghost Rider. Other members have included Moon Knight, Doctor Strange, Man-Thing, Wolverine, Iron Fist, and Wong.

The ensemble has already featured in a rather popular video game adaptation and with several of those characters already existing in the MCU, this project was expected to form part of the post-Avengers landscape. The natural lull that follows the big tentpole team-up movies became a real headache for Marvel Studios in the wake of 2019ā€™s Avengers: Endgame so on that level, Midnight Suns makes a kind of sense. If the audience is missing a dose of team-up action with characters they recognise from other movies and TV shows, give them more of that, presumably.

Michael Giacchino who directed Werewolf By Night for Marvel was said to be furthering his move into directing with this project but according to MyTimeToShineHello (via CBM), Michael Greenā€™s script wasnā€™t what the studio was looking for and so another writer will be sourced.

Greenā€™s previous writing work includes Logan and Blade Runner 2049, and while those projects certainly prove his worth, this is just the way Marvel Studios works. It will need to actually get a Blade film into the world though before Midnight Suns can fully take shape, and that in itself is proving to be something of a challenge.

Marvelā€™s Armor Wars project is said to be completely on hold, according to Daniel RPK. Apparently, the dour critical reaction to the Disney+ show Secret Invasion put a dent in that projectā€™s momentum. Itā€™s looking like the two projects would have been narratively interlinked and lots of fans simply didnā€™t engage with Secret Invasion. As such, it looks like the studio is either leaving Armor Wars on ice or will wait to find another entry point for the story. No word as yet as to whether that will be in the form of a TV show or a movie (the project has existed in both forms previously).

Weā€™ll bring you more on either project as and when we hear it. Hereā€™s how Marvelā€™s next couple of years look on the small screen whilst the studioā€™s next film project is Captain America: Brave New World, set to release next month in UK cinemas.

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