Arrowverse Creator Wants Marvel Boss to Reboot $29B MCU for a Surprising Reason After Getting Kicked Out of James Gunn’s DCU
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is one of the most successful and well-liked film franchises in the world, earning over $28 billion at the box office when movies are taken into account. The MCU is in phase 4 and has been releasing a lot of content for the audience to watch. Some people have enjoyed it, while others have complained that there are simply too many options.
Although Marvel Studios led by President Kevin Feige are on the top of the hierarchy as always but have been receiving backlash from the fans and Disney CEO Bob Iger who recently noted the conflicts that the company has been through. Now that another specialist has joined the discussion, he’s chosen to share his views.
Arrowverse co-creator Marc Guggenheim suggests the MCU reboot
During an appearance on The Aarsthi and Sriram Show, Arrowverse co-creator Marc Guggenheim pointed out that because the Marvel Cinematic Universe has provided so much content for the audience to watch, it has now become a problem.
He suggested, “If I was suddenly in [Marvel Studios President] Kevin Feige‘s role, basically I would do what Bob Iger was saying, which is prune the tree. You know, there’s just too much content. I’m like the biggest Marvel nerd ever, and I haven’t seen Moon Knight. I just can’t keep up. There’s just too much content.”
He further added that the key to the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s success was its fundamentally simple stories and people could jump in without watching any of the prior films. Guggenheim said, “To me, the difference between Phase 4 and Phases 1 through 3 is fundamentally something very simple, which is, you could even be watching ‘Infinity War’ without having seen the prior X number of movies.”
Arrowverse co-creator Marc Guggenheim spoke about how Marvel movies, including Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Black Panther, were movies that had their own stories as well as how they set the foundation for the movies to follow.
“Winter Soldier’ was its own movie with a beginning, middle, and end. And yet, that movie set the foundation for things that, you know. It didn’t deal with the Infinity Stones, but it did deal with Hydra and SHEILD and Steve Rogers’ relationship with the government and the Winter Soldier. There were a lot of pieces.”
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Marc Guggenheim contrasted the old MCU movies with new content
During the interview, the co-creator of Arrowverse noted that movies like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which required the audience to watch WandaVision on Disney+, created interdependence.
He explained that the audience had to watch a TV show and that they had to spend money to subscribe to the service that aired it. That’s the problem. Each of these movies, in Phases 1 through 3, stood on its own.
The Arroweverse’s co-creator added that he can understand that the MCU is going through the same thing that Marvel and DC comics went through previously. He says,
“I think of these universes like ships, and the longer a ship sails, the more barnacles get attached to its hull, and the more that weighs down the ship and the more it effects how fast the ship can move through the water. And every now and again, you need to do some sort of reboot that scrapes off the barnacles, like ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths.'”
Guggenheim started Arrowverse with Greg Berlanti on the CW Network with Arrow in 2012 and after eleven years, the Arrowverse came to an end with The Flash’s series finale. Talking about Secret Wars, Guggenheim said that it’s Jonathan Hickman’s Secret Wars, which was sort of like a reset for the Marvel Universe.
He also added, “Not for nothing does Marvel bring back the Ultimate Universe, because the whole appeal of the Ultimate Universe is for those readers who either don’t want to or haven’t learned 60 years of continuity, here’s Spider-Man for you unencumbered. Here’s Fantastic Four for you unencumbered.”
MCU’s Secret Wars delayed due to WGA-SAG-AFTRA labor strikes
According to reports, Secret Wars has been delayed due to WGA and SAG-AFTRA labor strikes and is meant to debut on 7th May 2026. According to the co-creator, Guggenheim, Secret Wars is when the MCU will likely start pruning the tree.
The reports suggested that Secret Wars is a Multiverse story or Multiverses and could appear as a great opportunity for the MCU to pick and choose what it wants to keep moving forward and whatever comes after the fastest Multiverse Saga.
“My guess is what they are building up to is the Secret Wars that they’ve announced is not the Secret Wars of the 1980s, it’s Jonathan Hickman’s Secret Wars, which basically was sort of like a reset for the Marvel Universe. So I think they are gonna, if they do what I expect them to do, they will end up pruning the tree,”
According to reports, the MCU will never really reboot but it surely gets trimmed back after Avengers 6. Disney+ CEO Bob Iger also singled out many of the series on Disney+ adding that they diluted focused attention.
Source: Looper
