The first half of the 2020s aren't really in Marvel's favor, and the entire decade could possibly be a wash.
were respectively pushed to May 2026 and May 2027 last month, that means there’ll be a five or six-year gap between Shang’s titular films.Shang-Chi isn’t the first MCU character to be in this predicament—Doctor Strange didn’t get a sequel to his 2016 film until last year, but that character had sporadic appearances in other media, and was a key player inrolled around, Marvel had already done the work of positioning Benedict Cumberbatch’s sorcerer as a key player going forward.
It’s currently unclear if Shang can have that same treatment given what we know is slated to come out relatively soon, but this newest delay highlights how messy things have been for the MCU in recent years. Even when that messiness is due to real world circumstances outside of its control like the COVID-19 pandemic, its handling of those events isn’t really great—2021 and 2022'swould have you thinking the studio was going out of business in the next week.
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