Don Cheadle's Armor Wars Series Now Being Developed As A Movie

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Marvel Studios'Armor Wars series was first announced in December 2020, but the news on the Don Cheadle project was practically non-existent since then. Now, it appears the creative team behind the project has opted to develop the series as a feature film instead.

After Tony Stark's demise—much like with Captain America's Steve Rogers returning from his time-travelling adventures as an old man and passing on his shield to Sam Wilson—it left a gap in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in terms of filling the boots of the famously armored crusader. It was a gap that seemingly fit Cheadle's James Rhodes (a military colonel best known by his nickname, “Rhodey”) to step up from being War Machine to something bigger, which would be explored in Marvel Studios'Armor Wars.

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The Hollywood Reporter has learnedArmor Wars will now be heading to theaters as a feature film, which means the project will be pushed back even further down the line. The development is due to everyone involved thinking it’s a better fit for the material, thoughArmor Wars head writer Yassir Lester will remain on board to pen the screenplay. This should be of interest to fans of good storytelling in general, as not spreading a story too thin is in the best interests of viewers everywhere and if the creatives are all aboard, means they’ll be serving up better a product to the content consumers as well.

Marvel Studios' various TV series on Disney plus have been an up-and-down affair, whether or not each is of a standard of quality or not. WandaVision opened up the slate promisingly enough, but then Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness rolled around and basically reset all the