Monologies!

In a bold move sure to reinvent serious film making as we know it, Marvel Studios will be producing movies that don't link together in to a massive twenty-two part interconnected mega-epic but instead will feature self-contained stories. Monologies if you will (you shouldn't). Obviously they'll still be part of the MCU, they're not monsters, but the movies won't rely on you having seen the entire series. Which...good for them? Maybe?

"Well, we looked at what worked, and what made us billions
of dollars and decided to do something else."

-Marvel, evidently

I mean, if Citizen Kane is so great, how
come there's no Kane-verse, hmmm?

This startling reveal came in an Cinemablend interview with Trinh Tran, one of the producers on Endgame and one of the architects of the Marvel brand® shared cinematic universe. She told Cinemablend that the last ten years was building to the Infinity War/Endgame climax and that while that may happen again someday, it could be another ten years of, get this: stand-alone movies. Like, what's even the point of going to a movie if half of it isn't about setting things up for later movies?

"We're thrilled to leverage our IP's to create
the content consumers expect from our brand!"

"...with obviously our Disney+ side and the shows and how are characters are venturing into that world and how that's gonna lead to the future and more franchises and more stories and more properties and their connective tissue to the rest of the MCU it would be amazing to do something like this ten years later."

-Trinh Tran, 

corporate-ing

So again, I'm not sure if I agree with Martin Scorsese's argument that Marvel movies aren't real cinema. And yes, it totally makes him sound like an out-of-touch curmudgeon telling kids to get off his lawn. But when filmmakers openly refer to their movies in terms of franchises and properties and set an intention of developing a multi-media consistent narrative universe across multiple characters and settings instead of, you know, making a movie that's about say people, I can kind of see what he's getting at.

"And another thing: have you noticed how kids these days are wearing
their dungarees too low? So disrespectful. Oh! And all the swearing!"

-Martin Scorsese, noted old