While the whole enterprise is still profitable and one of Disney's most reliable brands, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has seen better days. That's a fact. Disney and Marvel Studios' operations have been spread too thin over the usual number of Marvel movies per year and all the Disney Plus shows (aka content) demanded by the streaming platform to stay afloat, and Nia DaCosta's The Marvels might be this model's biggest victim so far.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, released in February 2023, already felt like a wake-up call to Disney and Marvel. Even if you generally enjoyed the threequel, the cracks in the production and post-production process were becoming more and more apparent. Critics and audiences noticed, and this time it was proved that we weren't crazy as there were some issues surrounding VFX.
