Marvel's Pre-MCU Movie Slate Resurfaces, Has 6 Movies That Never Happened

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Marvel's 2004 film slate has recently resurfaced online, bringing up reminders of several canceled projects and an altogether different-looking Marvel Cinematic Universe. The MCU, overseen by producer Kevin Feige, is undoubtedly the most successful achievement in blockbuster filmmaking in the last decade. New installments consistently break box office records and receive warm responses from critics and fans. Starting with Iron Man in 2008, the continuity has spanned across 27 movies taking audiences through the assembly of the Avengers and the epic Infinity Saga, with the current Phase 4 setting its sights on the multiverse.

However, before Marvel Studios refined its process to build the Marvel Cinematic Universe, almost an entire decade of films produced by other studios in association with Marvel Entertainment brought its comic characters to life. Indeed, the current comic book movie boom that has seen cinemas dominated with superheroes is primarily attributed to the tightly knit releases of the original Blade, X-Men, and Spider-Man movies around the turn of the century. All three of these films were commercially successful but, more importantly, critically praised in a manner that showed comic book films were capable of being weighty dramas with something to say in the modern landscape of cinema.

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Artist @AjepArts recently uncovered several promotional photos from an event in 2004 that detailed Marvel's upcoming slate of films based on their characters. On this list are movies that fans inevitably saw, such as The Punisher, Spider-Man 2, Blade Trinity, Elektra, Fantastic Four, X-Men: The Last Stand (titled here X-Men 3), Ghost Rider, and Spider-Man