Marvel's Future Female? – Variety

The 20th episode of the Marvel Cinematic Universe also marked a first franchise

With "Ant-Man and the Wasp", the audience finally saw a Marvel film co-titled by a woman like Hope Van Dyne. Evangeline Lilly (aka Wasp) shared the central stage with Paul Rudd's Ant-Man. The suite of superheroes opened with $ 161 million worldwide, of which 76 million came from North America.

The injection of estrogen has borne fruit. Although this is a slower start than the recent Marvel titles such as "Avengers: Infinity War" and "Black Panther", this is a significant jump on the domestic debut of the original 57 million film of dollars. "Ant-Man and the Wasp" seems to be a new victory for the company owned by Disney.

"We've seen enough guys in Spandex to last a lifetime – it's time to share the wealth," said Jeff Bock, an analyst at Exhibitor Relations. "Marvel is the hottest thing that's going on. They can not remain static and strive to diversify.

Comics and geek culture have often been dominated by men, but that is changing. Expectations are high for "Captain Marvel", a 2019 film that will feature Oscar winner, Brie Larson. In a glass ceiling strand, "Captain Marvel" will be Marvel's inaugural solo adventure.

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Shortly after "Captain Marvel" sinks in March, "Avengers 4" will close the third chapter of the MCU. Until this year with the release of "Black Panther", the series was stored with a strong white man after the next. For the future, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said that Phase 4 (the next films "Avengers: Infinity War Part 2") will be "significantly different" than the first three chapters. In line with the wrapped secret that is the Marvel brand, one can guess what this ambiguous statement means.

Chances are, Marvel will follow in Phase 4 with an equal share of sequels and new stories. This gives the studio a unique chance to push for greater sexual and racial diversity when it comes to rounding out the next iterations of the Earth's most powerful heroes.

In the case of female heroes, Marvel arrives late at the party. It is DC that has proven for the first time that spectators of both sexes will show themselves to watch a heroine save the world. The "Wonder Woman" of last year has been a worldwide success story that has already inspired a sequel and has seen Gal Gadot become one of the biggest stars of the DC firmament. She dominates Batman and Superman these days.

Before "Wonder Woman", the failure of movies such as "Catwoman" by Halle Berry and "Elektra" by Jennifer Garner made the studios suspicious of female movies. Of course, they failed to recognize that silly scripts, not sexist hearings, condemned these titles.

"Obviously, there was a stigma attached to female superhero movies. The problem is that they were not badly cast, but they were bad movies, "Bock said." It was just a matter of time before the right person in Spandex could escalate the mountain. "

He adds:" Now that [‘Wonder Woman’ and ‘Black Panther’] has arrived, I do not think that launching and greening these films will be anything new "

Just like Gadot's Wonder Woman, Lilly's Wasp is the brain of the operation. Rudd provides comic relief, but it's the Wasp on which one can rely to save the day. She is about equal to Ant-Man.

"Certainly the female characters are no longer the damsel in distress, and it's just a reflection of the world around us – not just a reflection, but perhaps an antidote," said Paul Dergarabedian, a box office analyst

Despite his slow start, Marvel improved by offering fleshy female characters, "Letitia Wright and Danai Gurira of Black Panther" and "Thor: Ragnarok" of Tessa Thompson both gave a kick in the ass and proved that they could anchor a derivative film

"It seems that there will never be any disinterest," says Dergarabedian, of Marvel's continued success. "The way you keep moving forward is to dive into new characters."

With the main characters of Avengers removing their costumes and buckling shields soon, the fate of the universe could land in the hands of protagonists that reflect better public This would be a change we could all believe.