Kevin Feige Promises MCU Fans: Next Saga Will Become Clear as Phase Four Nears End

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Zack Sharf The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase Four has included box office blockbusters like the billion-dollar grossing “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse Madness” ($942 million worldwide and counting), plus the MCU’s first foray into television with hits like “WandaVision” and “Loki.” But what Phase Four has lacked for a majority of MCU fans is a sense of narrative drive and cohesion.

As Variety’s Adam B. Vary wrote last month, “Instead of the incremental escalation of the Infinity Saga, there is no sense yet of where Phase Four is heading — if, indeed, it is heading in any single direction.”As of now, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has a handful of dangling cliffhangers that don’t appear to have any connection to one another or to be building towards a franchise-uniting endgame: There’s Doctor Strange teaming up with Clea to fix an incursion in the multiverse, there’s Arishem from “Eternals” placing the planet on trial, there’s a drop of Venom’s alien symbiote goo left in the same universe as Tom Holland’s Peter Parker, and so on.

According to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, clarity about the MCU’s direction will start in the “coming months.” The MCU boss told Total Film magazine that while clues about the MCU’s future have been baked into the existing Phase Four titles, the larger game plan for the franchise will start taking shape more directly with the remaining Phase Four titles.

Fans will surely be hoping this cleans up the MCU’s current aimless feel.“As we’re nearing the end of Phase Four, I think people will start to see where this next saga is going,” Feige promised. “I think there have been many clues already, that are at least apparent to me, of where this whole saga is.