The Marvel Cinematic Universe is effectively the Hollywood equivalent of serving as an elected official. You don’t have to have a private life or do what you want, you just serve the public’s pleasure as an ambassador for the world’s largest movie franchise. Until you hang up your superhero costume, you’re no longer an actor or even a person, you’re a Hulk, a Spider-Man or a Happy Hogan. If you make a movie in the middle of the MCU term, it won’t The judge, starring Robert Downey Jr., is The judge, starring a Tony Stark shaved for some reason. Once you leave the MCU, however, you will be able to relive your own life and do whatever you want.
For two of the most recently retired stars from the MCU, this means getting nerdy like a pair of nerds and doing something traditional without franchises performance (and also, for one of them, some suing). We are talking about a film that is not based on anything and is not a sequel to anything. It’s not even one prequel to anything. It’s just … a movie. The two nerds we’re talking about are Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson, who are now free from the pressures of the MCU.possibly temporarily, for one of them—and they are finally, I can act again. They are actors.
If we seem to use a lot of words to say “Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans are making a new movie together,” we should explain that we don’t know much about the movie they make. The Hollywood Reporter he says is called Phantasmagoric and that it is an “adventure film” in the line of Romance the stone for Apple, with DeadpoolRhett Reese and Paul Wernick writing i Rocket manDirected by Dexter Fletcher, but that’s all we know. Apparently Romance the stonestyle adventure movies are the newest. Move on, superhero movies. You belong in the trash with cowboy movies and adult dramas.