Avengers: Endgame director reveals why he doesn’t want Wolverine in the MCU just yet

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Thanks to last year's Fox/Disney merger, there’s a whole load of previously Fox-owned Marvel characters for Kevin Feige and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Studios to play around with in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Phase 4 and beyond.

Deadpool, Fantastic Four, and X-Men are all high on fans’ wishlists to be introduced to the MCU, but 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Avengers: Endgame director Joe Russo – one half of the Russo Brothers – has reveꦕaled why he doesn’t want one of the most iconic mutants, Wolverine, to unsheathe his claws for the time being.

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It is hard to see anyone else in the role of Wolverine, a role Jackman played from 2000’s X-Men right through to 2017’s Logan, and the breathing room needed for the next evolution of t🙈he character might come naturaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚlly anyway, no matter Joe Russo’s opinion.

Kevin Feige may have offered 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a one-word tease ("Mutants") at 2019's San Diego Comic-Con, but also revealed last year that X-Men isn’t in the MCU&rsqu꧑o;s immediat🌄e plans. “It’s all just beginning and the five-year plan that we’ve been work🍎ing on, we were working on before any of [the Fox merger] was set. So really, it’s much more, for us, less about specifics of when and where [the X-Men will appear] right now,” Feige told at the time.

For now, Wolvie is seemingly being kept on the shelf. It’s probably for the best. Just imagine how satisfying the snikt is going to be when he does make his belated return 🐓to the big screen. For more MCU content, check out our p🌄ieces on:

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