Marvel's 33 Cancelled Movies (& Why They Didn't Happen)

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Superhero movie history is full of canceled Marvel movies that didn't happen for various reasons across the past two decades. Prior to the rampant success of the MCU, Marvel cinema was in something of a quagmire in the early 2010s that saw a string of Marvel movies vetoed by Sony and other prominent studios at the time. A vast uptick in integration deals ahead of the creation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe meant whole swathes of planned Marvel movies received the ax in favor of rebooting their characters into the burgeoning MCU.

However, the MCU and its future was not the only deciding factor in taking Marvel movies off the production slate, with poor critical reception a pervading factor in many cases. Comic book adaptations before the MCU were very far from being surefire hits, with many Marvel superhero movies only reaching cult status years after their initial release. Other Marvel movies did not get so lucky, with supposed franchise starters such as The Fantastic Four and Daredevil lambasted for their lack of creativity when translating classic Marvel intellectual properties to the big screen.

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For the sake of conciseness, this collection of discarded Marvel movies is based on the films themselves being slated for production and subsequently canceled, as opposed to simply being an undeveloped idea. This criteria also rules out the long-in-waiting Iron Fist movie of the early 2000s, which eventually morphed into a Netflix streaming series and part of The Defenders, despite never being greenlit as its own film. As a result, here's every canceled Marvel movie to date and why each movie didn't happen.

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