Can we just think about that for a moment? Avengers 4, the last time I checked, is coming out in May of 2019. That’s about six months from now, more or less. Of course they’re going to put out a trailer in the next two months. Captain Marvel is coming out in March, and they put out the trailer for that in mid-September. The odds that Disney would play it weird at this point are just about nil.
Chalk it up to the ravenous content maw that is the modern Internet. I personally can’t wait for the teaser to the trailer to Avengers 4, myself. And I absolutely know that that’s going to happen. I know this because it’s happened in the past, and the studio wants the Avengers 4 hype to glow white-hot for as long as possible. — And, to be fair: this entire MCU experiment culminates with that movie. Can it all be pulled together, and leave the audience of hardcore watchers thinking Yeah, that was worth it? Disney/Marvel won’t know until next year, and the answer very well may shape the very nature of genre films for quite possibly the rest of my life.
So, hey, no pressure.
The real question is whether the second Captain Marvel trailer will drop before the end of the year.
Yes, it’s all built to this film, and they better do it right and not Deus Ex the heck out of it, the true mystery here is where it goes next. And while it’s wild gun-jumping to discuss now, I’m actually finding the business side of it more interesting than some of the films at this point, particularly since DC and Star Wars are failing trying to do the same thing. When they do a corporate history after phase 6 as a 25 year recap I’ll buy it.
I will absolutely buy a book on all of this when all of this is over, too.