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News The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Updates

JD said:
There was actually a story on EW.com where Gwyneth Paltrow addressed the possibility of her returning to the MCU yesterday. She said she would be willing to, but only if it was a small part she could do in a day or two. She's mainly focusing on running her wellness and lifestyle company, Goop, these days.

The Young Avengers team that they appear to be setting up, with Kate Bishop, Wiccan and Speed, Stature, and possibly Ms. Marvel and Iron Heart, was a modern day team. They started up after the Avengers disbanded following Avengers Disassembled, around the same time Cap started the New Avengers.
Technically Ms. Marvel & Iron Heart have never been Young Avengers, they were actually part of the Champions, another teen team set up after the second Civil War, but I could see them making them Young Avengers instead for the MCU.
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I think @Noname Given might be thinking of A-Next.
 
TREK_GOD_1 said:
Ehh...she might blame them, after all, it was the group who visited Stark, trying to enlist his help for their time scheme, and up until that time, he was settled and completely out of danger. In grief, some needs someone to blame (ignoring an adult made a decision of his own free will), so she might feel the need to blame the former Avengers at some point.
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It's a perfectly realistic human reaction for a hypothetical person, I don't disagree, but Pepper isn't a hypothetical person. We get quite a lot of her pov in Endgame and there's not a single scene there which even remotely suggests that possibility. She even specifically references that's she's already come to terms with Tony's heroic tendencies all the way at the beginning of the time heist, as she's giving him her blessing to do it again, clearly knowing he may not come back. And there's nothing in the final battle, in his death scene or at his funeral to suggest she's anything but fond of Tony's friends.

She has no particularly good reason to suit up herself, unless the writers contrive one for her, but there's no apparent reason for her to cut the Avengers off from Tony's technology at all. Especially not since she is also a good person who cared about doing the right thing even before Tony ever did and she's smart enough to know that if the Avengers say they need something, they probably really do need it to save lives.
 
Grendelsbayne said:
It's a perfectly realistic human reaction for a hypothetical person, I don't disagree, but Pepper isn't a hypothetical person. We get quite a lot of her pov in Endgame and there's not a single scene there which even remotely suggests that possibility. She even specifically references that's she's already come to terms with Tony's heroic tendencies all the way at the beginning of the time heist, as she's giving him her blessing to do it again, clearly knowing he may not come back. And there's nothing in the final battle, in his death scene or at his funeral to suggest she's anything but fond of Tony's friends.
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What i'm saying is that in stages of grief, some will look to blame others for a death, especially in those "why did he have to..?" or "If only they left him alone" moments that can come up in a mind so many times in lonely periods after someone dies. Having Pepper react that way would be a nice, dramatic avenue to explore. This is not to say that in the long run, she won't help whoever needs her and/or Stark tech, but an angry/sad road taken to get to that place would feel natural.
 
TREK_GOD_1 said:
What i'm saying is that in stages of grief, some will look to blame others for a death, especially in those "why did he have to..?" or "If only they left him alone" moments that can come up in a mind so many times in lonely periods after someone dies. Having Pepper react that way would be a nice, dramatic avenue to explore. This is not to say that in the long run, she won't help whoever needs her and/or Stark tech, but an angry/sad road taken to get to that place would feel natural.
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Sure, nothing wrong with that if she's having a particularly bad moment when they come to see her.
 
Grendelsbayne said:
Pepper absolutely isn't in any kind of place to (even want) to lead the Avengers, obviously, but I think it's going too far to say she won't support them in any way. I don't believe she blames them at all for Tony's death. If the actress is amenable, I won't be at all surprised to see Pepper show up to help out with some necessary StarkTech whenever it may be story appropriate. And I give solid odds she'll possibly be a major character in the Ironheart show (again, unless the actress is just totally unwilling).
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I personally don't see Paltrow coming back to the MCU (although she hasn't been returning my calls.) She doesn't have to be even mentioned for the occasional crate of tech to arrive, or the electrical bill to be paid at Avengers HQ, that wouldn't even need explanation. Bruce, Scott, and probably Hope would be fully capable of designing stuff, and help from Wakanda wouldn't surprise me.

The real question is whether the MCU really wants the Avengers to continue. They had a great run. No Cap, no Iron Man, no Hawkeye, no Widow, Thor off with the GoG. Let it be done, at least for now.

Peter Parker is still young enough to be central to Young Avengers if they want to go that route using that name.
 
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LaxScrutiny said:
I personally don't see Paltrow coming back to the MCU (although she hasn't been returning my calls.) She doesn't have to be even mentioned for the occasional crate of tech to arrive, or the electrical bill to be paid at Avengers HQ. Bruce, Scott, and probably Hope would be fully capable of designing stuff, and help from Wakanda wouldn't surprise me.

The real question is whether the MCU really wants the Avengers to continue. Peter Parker is still young enough to be central to Young Avengers if they want to go that route using that name.
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It's absolutely true that she's not really necessary, I'm just talking about how she might be involved if she actually turns out to be involved.

Having said that, there is one major obvious place where it really would make sense for her to be, on Ironheart. Obviously Marvel Studios isn't bound by the comics and if Paltrow really is committed to only coming back for small cameos they may not even have a choice. But in the Ironheart comics, Pepper is literally Riri's mentor.
 
JD said:
EW has posted their new in depth cover story for Falcon & The Winter Solider.
One of the locations in the show is going to be the first new part of the MCU to come from the Fantastic Four and/or X-Men sides of the comics universe.
It also says that the show will be setting up at least 3 future MCU projects, but they wouldn't say what they are.
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The location in question is Madripoor, which featured prominently in X-Men and the New Mutants, and was the setting of Wolverine's first regular solo book.

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Madripoor

What's interesting to me is I thought Agatha Harkness was the first thing to be used from the FOX acquisition as she was a Fantastic Four supporting character first and foremost. Perhaps her rights situation was similar to Wanda and Pietro.
 
I don't see that Paltrow and Feige can avoid a Rescue trilogy. But that's a thing for the general MCU speculation thread.
 
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