The first announcement of a ‘Remedy Connected Universe’ arrived just as its biggest precedent was in full swing. A few months before Control’s release, Avengers: Endgame had managed to pay off a decade’s worth of interconnected storytelling in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, breaking box-office records in the process. Naturally, given how Hollywood operates, every film studio with a faintly applicable property on its roster was trying to get in on the action. Warner Bros launched efforts with its own superheroes in the DC Extended Universe, while also smashing Godzilla and King Kong together to form the terribly named MonsterVerse.
