These are the kind of issues that other superhero studios are supposed to have. A rising star, suddenly brought low by an off-screen incident that kills all hype surrounding forthcoming projects. Talk of recasting, or perhaps even a complete change of plan. Disastrous instalments that were supposed to kick off a new era, but end up representing a debilitating full stop in the saga.
For DC’s Ezra Miller, read Marvel’s Jonathan Majors. For the former’s The Flash, read the latter’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. After more than a decade of seemingly unstoppable box office and critical smashes, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) seems to have discovered that it is human after all, and that the travails that have proven so bothersome to lesser studios, are starting to rear their hideous and deeply inconvenient heads for Disney’s comic book golden child.
