Wakanda Forever EP Confirms Namor Won't Get a Solo Film - Gizmodo

Before Black Panther: Wakanda Forever released successful theaters and became a juggernaut successful the mode most Marvel movies do, determination was plentifulness of anticipation to spot however the movie would grip Namor the Sub-Mariner. Now that the movie has travel out, the character’s received a caller surge of attraction acknowledgment to his portrayal by Narcos: Mexico’s Tenoch Huerta Mejía and his reworked root arsenic the ruler of the underwater kingdom of Talokan.

With however Marvel Studios prepares basically anyone to measurement up for a solo escapade aft being a guest star successful idiosyncratic else’s story, you’d beryllium close successful reasoning we’re owed for a Namor spinoff successful the adjacent future. But longtime Marvel Studios enforcement shaper Nate Moore told The Wrap that Disney remains barred disconnected from giving the quality his ain standalone diagnostic connected relationship of Universal Pictures continuing to ain the movie rights to the Sub-Mariner. (By that aforesaid logic, you tin presume a Disney+ bid is disconnected the table.) Back successful the 90s erstwhile Marvel Comics was successful information of going bankrupt, it sold disconnected quality rights to different studios, similar Fox oregon Sony. Universal got Namor and the Hulk, and adjacent though they’ve tried implicit the decades to get a movie for the underwater antihero disconnected the ground, thing truly came of those efforts earlier the Black Panther sequel.

As it stands, Marvel’s woody with Universal adjacent affected Wakanda’s promos: Moore continued that Namor couldn’t adjacent beryllium unsocial connected selling materials unless it was for a poster. You cognize however immoderate Marvel movies person commercials that hype up the information of its villain? This was wherefore Wakanda Forever did 1 for the Talokanil wide and not their person specifically. “There weren’t truly things we couldn’t bash from a quality position for him,” helium explained. “But we besides made immoderate large changes to truly anchor him successful that satellite successful a information that publishing ne'er truly landed on, I would argue, successful a large way.”

It’s presently unclear however agelong Marvel Studios’ woody with Universal volition continue, oregon if the workplace is actively trying to marque a play to reacquire Hulk and Namor. Likewise, it isn’t known if it’s imaginable for Marvel to usage a Namor-adjacent quality arsenic a pb and person Namor amusement up, arsenic we saw with She-Hulk. Unlike with the Netflix characters, it mightiness not beryllium imaginable for the workplace to conscionable tally the timepiece until specified a clip erstwhile the rights revert to them. “Namor volition return,” promised Moore, but successful what capableness volition beryllium unclear until Marvel consecutive up says so, oregon it gets leaked successful merchandising material.

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