Marvel Studios Boss Reflects on 'Painful' Pandemic Challenges
Although Marvel Studios is looking forward to an exciting year of new content releases, it's been anything but easy getting back to the studio's current place of prominence. The worldwide pandemic caused difficulties for every studio in the business, but it happened to come at the most inopportune time considering where the MCU was going into 2020. Although Phase 3 and the Infinity Saga as a whole ended in 2019, the start of Phase 4 was delayed by more than six months from May 2020 to January 2021. This included starting the new slate of projects on Disney+ with WandaVision rather than in theaters with Black Widow , and Black Widow even had to debut with a dual theatrical/streaming release in July 2021. ADVERTISEMENT Even after the MCU restarted with a record nine new entries in 2021, Marvel dealt with one challenge after another in terms of filming and production - a process that's still difficult moving into 2022. Recently, one of Marvel...