Battered Marvel finds an unexpected champion in ‘Loki’
by Ken Makin
Nov 09, 2023
3 minutes
It’s easy to understand why Marvel might have once thought itself invincible on the silver screen. Beyond the pitch-perfect castings of Chris Evans as Captain America and Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, the iconic comic book brand found remarkable success at the movies with “Black Panther” and “Guardians of the Galaxy.”
Something happened after Evans and Downey’s Avengers swan song in the aptly-named “Endgame.” Marvel’s Phase 4 sought to tap lesser-known properties such as from fans. A recent from Variety assessed the brand’s current situation in three words: “Crisis at Marvel.”
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