‘Inhumans’ Pulled From Marvel’s Release Schedule
It seems like every few weeks we hear an announcement about yet another superhero movie getting added to the release calendar, but today’s news is about taking one off of it. Marvel has pulledInhumansoff its 2019 slate, confirmingKevin Feige’srecent admissionthat the picture would probably get delayed.
Marvelbroke the newsvery late Friday afternoon, as PR professionals usually do when they’re hoping no one makes too big a deal out of their bad news.Inhumanswas originally set for release on July 06, 2025 and then pushed back to June 15, 2025 when Marvel addedSpider-ManandAnt-Man and the Waspto its Phase Three plans. Feige acknowledged earlier this month that the film was likely to get pushed back again, but said he wasn’t sure to what date, and it seems Marvel still hasn’t decided.
At the time Feige insisted thatInhumanswasn’t dead, and that it was just “a question of when” it’d finally get going. The superhero movie has not yet announced a director or a screenwriter or any stars (although Vin Diesel hascertainly tried his bestto get the rumor mill churning).Joe Robert Cole(Black Panther) wrote anearly draft of the scriptbut as of last year he wasno longer involvedwith the project.
Inhumanswas officially announced as part of Marvel’s Phase Three lineup back in 2014, but it’s been dogged bycancellation rumorssince last year. A lot of that speculation stemmed from the growing distance between Marvel’s TV and movie divisions — the Inhumans, a race of superpowered people, play a major role inAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.but it’s been unclearhow or ifthat plotline might intersect with the films.
Marvel already has three 2020 dates (May 1, July 10, and November 6) set aside for as-yet-unnamed projects. It seems telling that the studio opted to yankInhumansaltogether, rather than shuffle it to one of those dates — it suggestsInhumansprobably isn’t coming until 2021 or even later.
