Russos finally admit SMH screwed up MCU timeline
Apr 22, 2018 17:22:06 GMT
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Post by DC-Fan on Apr 22, 2018 17:22:06 GMT
The Russos finally admit what I've been saying all along - that SMH screwed up MCU's timeline. And don't attack me for this article. I didn't write this article.
Avengers Director On ‘Incorrect’ Spider-Man: Homecoming Time Jump
Avengers Director On ‘Incorrect’ Spider-Man: Homecoming Time Jump
Spider-Man: Homecoming introduced an apparent continuity error into the MCU, an “eight years later” time jump. Now, Avengers: Infinity War director Joe Russo has finally admitted that this was, quite simply, “incorrect.”
In 2016, Captain America: Civil War played an important role in the MCU. It set in place a fixed timeline, with Marvel movies mostly set in the year of their release. Iron Man was based in 2008, The Avengers in 2012, and The Winter Soldier in 2014. The Russo brothers are clearly continuing with that pattern, as Avengers: Infinity War is confirmed to be set in 2018. Unfortunately, 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming complicated the issue. The film was set in the aftermath of Civil War, but was apparently also a full eight years after The Avengers. This was confirmed in both a title-card and dialogue in the movie, and it essentially broke the Marvel timeline. Although Kevin Feige has insisted that the timeline still works, it’s notable that he never explained quite how Homecoming‘s apparent continuity issue could be fixed.
Infinity War co-director Joe Russo is currently doing the rounds, and in an interview with Ashish Chanchlani he finally commented on the problem. Chanchlani decided to put Russo to the test with trivia questions about the MCU, and one of them was the time-gap between The Avengers and Homecoming. “It was eight years, I believe,” Russo responded. “It was a very incorrect eight years.”
This is the first time anyone from Marvel has actually admitted this was “incorrect.” Marvel added Spider-Man into the MCU at speed, reaching an agreement over the character after they’d actually announced the Phase 3 slate. Although there have been a handful of proposed “fixes,” nothing quite works. It’s simply impossible for both Civil War and Homecoming to be correct. Russo is the first Marvel insider to openly acknowledge that.
So how will Marvel resolve this issue? It seems most likely that they won’t; they’ll instead elect to ignore it. Russo’s comment is hardly an official statement from Marvel Studios, after all. Previous Marvel films have had their own continuity issues, with an incorrect calendar-date here, or a confused reference there. Homecoming was simply the first time this kind of continuity error was visible to general viewers.
In 2016, Captain America: Civil War played an important role in the MCU. It set in place a fixed timeline, with Marvel movies mostly set in the year of their release. Iron Man was based in 2008, The Avengers in 2012, and The Winter Soldier in 2014. The Russo brothers are clearly continuing with that pattern, as Avengers: Infinity War is confirmed to be set in 2018. Unfortunately, 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming complicated the issue. The film was set in the aftermath of Civil War, but was apparently also a full eight years after The Avengers. This was confirmed in both a title-card and dialogue in the movie, and it essentially broke the Marvel timeline. Although Kevin Feige has insisted that the timeline still works, it’s notable that he never explained quite how Homecoming‘s apparent continuity issue could be fixed.
Infinity War co-director Joe Russo is currently doing the rounds, and in an interview with Ashish Chanchlani he finally commented on the problem. Chanchlani decided to put Russo to the test with trivia questions about the MCU, and one of them was the time-gap between The Avengers and Homecoming. “It was eight years, I believe,” Russo responded. “It was a very incorrect eight years.”
This is the first time anyone from Marvel has actually admitted this was “incorrect.” Marvel added Spider-Man into the MCU at speed, reaching an agreement over the character after they’d actually announced the Phase 3 slate. Although there have been a handful of proposed “fixes,” nothing quite works. It’s simply impossible for both Civil War and Homecoming to be correct. Russo is the first Marvel insider to openly acknowledge that.
So how will Marvel resolve this issue? It seems most likely that they won’t; they’ll instead elect to ignore it. Russo’s comment is hardly an official statement from Marvel Studios, after all. Previous Marvel films have had their own continuity issues, with an incorrect calendar-date here, or a confused reference there. Homecoming was simply the first time this kind of continuity error was visible to general viewers.
