Ever since Marvel Studios announced their Phase 3 line-up in October of 2014, there has been quite a few shake-ups with Sony and Marvel’s unprecedented partnership Spider-Man: Homecoming slotting into 2017 release date, Ant-Man and The Wasp announced for 2018, and Captain Marvel been shuffled back a few months. But the one constant casualty of all this re-tooling was Inhumans, a race of superhumans hidden from the rest of the world for eons, Marvel’s originally set to be released in 2018 between Avengers: Infinity War Parts 1 and 2, released on May 3rd and May 4th 2018 and 2019 respectively. But by the time all the amendments to the schedule were in place, it’s July 12th 2019, making it more likely to be part of Phase 4.
Add these constant pushing back of release dates to the fact that the Inhumans became a major part of Marvel T.V’s Agents of S.H.I.E.LD., and you knew their big screen outing wasn’t long for this world. The movie has been officially pulled from Marvel’s release schedule, and while this isn’t always a crystal clear indication of a movie never happening (both Jurassic World and the upcoming Assassin’s Creed were pulled from their respective schedules), it does show that Inhuman was maybe a project Marvel Studios was never fully behind. Personally, it always felt to me a mandate from their parent company at the time, Marvel Entertainment, and it’s head Ike Perlmutter. With Fox refusing to give back the film rights to the X-Men, Marvel Comics began to phase out the importance of their merry and of mutants, once a huge part of the Marvel Universe whose influence began to began to be felt in other non-mutant books. Now, they have been relegated to their own little corner, with the Inhumans, a pretty handy substitute, being pushed hard after years of toiling relative obscurity. It’s easy to see that they were set to be MCU’s version of the X-Men, but with Marvel Studios now answering solely to Disney, Perlmutter’s plans don’t have to be followed to the letter anymore. Of course, this is all speculation, and Inhumans could very well appear on the schedule sometime down the line in Phase 4. Time will tell.
Add these constant pushing back of release dates to the fact that the Inhumans became a major part of Marvel T.V’s Agents of S.H.I.E.LD., and you knew their big screen outing wasn’t long for this world. The movie has been officially pulled from Marvel’s release schedule, and while this isn’t always a crystal clear indication of a movie never happening (both Jurassic World and the upcoming Assassin’s Creed were pulled from their respective schedules), it does show that Inhuman was maybe a project Marvel Studios was never fully behind. Personally, it always felt to me a mandate from their parent company at the time, Marvel Entertainment, and it’s head Ike Perlmutter. With Fox refusing to give back the film rights to the X-Men, Marvel Comics began to phase out the importance of their merry and of mutants, once a huge part of the Marvel Universe whose influence began to began to be felt in other non-mutant books. Now, they have been relegated to their own little corner, with the Inhumans, a pretty handy substitute, being pushed hard after years of toiling relative obscurity. It’s easy to see that they were set to be MCU’s version of the X-Men, but with Marvel Studios now answering solely to Disney, Perlmutter’s plans don’t have to be followed to the letter anymore. Of course, this is all speculation, and Inhumans could very well appear on the schedule sometime down the line in Phase 4. Time will tell.
