First Look at Disney+ Marvel Cinematic Universe TV Miniseries
First Look at Disney+ Marvel Cinematic Universe TV Miniseries
By: Mr Write-ster
Over the past decade, Marvel Studios has brought a total of 23 interconnecting superhero
movies to the big screen, most of which were produced independently by the studio itself and
some in collaboration with other distributors like Universal Pictures and Sony. These movies
along with numerous TV shows, shorts and comic tie-ins shaped the media franchise that
would eventually be known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), a shared universe where an array of superheroes and characters based on Marvel Comics exist within the same
reality. Throughout the span of 11 years, these movies were released and divided across three
phases, beginning with IRON MAN (2008) for Phase 1 and ending with SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (2019) for Phase 3.
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Thus far, Marvel Studios have been consistently delivering audiences with at least two films
per year. In the upcoming highly anticipated Phase 4 expected to launch this year, fans would
get two new MCU instalments starting with the BLACK WIDOW in April and THE ETERNALS in November.
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Last year, AVENGERS: ENDGAME (2019) may have given us an epic conclusion to the Infinity Saga, but not all stories within the MCU have been told yet. With the launched of Disney’s new streaming platform, the Disney+, Marvel Studios plan to further expand the untold stories within the MCU via the small screen. As parts of MCU’s Phase 4, Marvel Studios will also be producing several miniseries featuring some other existing MCU superheroes who did not receive a solo film treatment.
Earlier this week, at annual 54 th Super Bowl American Football game, a TV spot for the miniseries was aired during the commercial break. Check out the TV spot here:
The 30-second teaser gave us a first glimpse on some of the upcoming MCU miniseries, with
footages mostly coming from THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER and WANDAVISION. Also seen in the teaser was a brief appearance of the God of Mischief in the upcoming series LOKI. As the names suggest, the 6-episode miniseries will explore the stories of these titular characters, portrayed by the original casts of the MCU which include:
- Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson (a.k.a. Falcon), an Avenger who uses a specialized
wing pack for flight and combat and was also bestowed the Vibranium shield by old
man Steve Rogers (Captain America) at the end of AVENGERS: ENDGAME;
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- Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes (a.k.a. Winter Soldier), a WWII veteran and best friend to Steve Rogers who was previously turned into an enhanced soldier assassin by Hydra and is now freed from the brainwashing programme;
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- Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch), an all-powerful enhanced Avenger with telekinesis and mental manipulation abilities who lost both her twin brother Pietro Maximoff and love interest Vision in AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (2015) and AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR (2018) respectively;
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- Paul Bettany as the android Avenger Vision, the love interest of Wanda who was killed by Thanos in AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR when the Mad Titan forcefully removed the Mind Stone from the android’s forehead;
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- And last but not least, Tom Hiddleston as fans beloved God of Mischief, Loki of an alternate timeline who escaped from custody with the Tesseract in AVENGERS: ENDGAME after the Battle of New York in 2012.
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The shows would also see the return of other characters who first appeared in previous MCU
instalments and the introduction of new characters alike.
Limited information is known about the plots for now, but they take place after AVENGERS: ENDGAME. According to the latest updates, both THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER and WANDAVISION are expected to be released on Disney+in August and December 2020 respectively while LOKI releases in early 2021. With this plan in mind, this marks the first time Marvel Studios would be producing four MCU instalments within a year.
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