The Marvel Cinematic Universe once again rearranges its release schedule due to the global coronavirus crisis: new dates confirmed.
The global crisis of the coronavirus continues to hit the film industry with further delays in theatrical releases, as well as in ongoing shootings of new film productions. So much so, that Marvel Studios and Disney have had to move again to postpone, once again, their next releases, now delaying Black Widow to May 2021 instead of the last known date of November of this year, displacing turn the next two films, Eternals and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, now scheduled for July and November, respectively.
New dates confirmed for the UCM
Thus, Black Widow will now be released on May 7, 2021, the date on which Shang-Chi was to be released, a film that passes to July 9, 2021, exchanging the premiere order with Eternals, now scheduled for November 5 from 2021; a new dance of dates that leaves 2020 without any Marvel Studios premiere in theaters and that, surely, will end up displacing the following productions of the already announced Phase 4, of which nothing has been said in the official statement.
Eternals delayed to Nov 5, 2021. Marvel made the right & responsible decision. There’s a pandemic. Nothing is more important than health & lives. I can’t tell ppl to go to a movie theater until I feel safe going to one.
Take care of yourselves. I promise it’ll be worth the wait!
– Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) September 23, 2020
Nothing has been said about Spider-Man 3 (working title) either, although Eternals happens to occupy the premiere of the new Spidey movie in the MCU, scheduled for November 17, with what is more than likely that it will reach the cinemas already in 2022. As we say, nothing has been said about the rest of the films scheduled, such as Thor: Love and Thunder (February 11, 2022), Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (March 25, 2022), Black Panther 2 (May 6, 2022) and Captain Marvel 2 (July 8, 2022).
We will have to wait for a possible official statement from Sony Pictures about the possible new date of Spider-Man 3, a film shared with Marvel Studios. On the other hand, the actor Kumail Nanjiani, one of the protagonists of Eternals, has already reacted to the news through a tweet that you can read about these lines.
