While fans and moviegoers have grown increasingly indifferent to the Multiverse concept, it's too late for Marvel Studios to change course and the Multiverse Saga won't conclude until Avengers: Secret Wars arrives a few years from now.
There's still plenty of fun to be had with the idea of alternate realities, though, and some rumoured details about Kevin Feige's plans have found their way online today.
According to scooper @Cryptic4KQual, the Marvel Studios President is looking to bring a villain from Sony's Spider-Man Universe into the MCU. There's no word on who that is, though it's said they'll have "a cool but disheartening role."
Your guess is as good as ours when it comes to what that means; however, you may recall that Spider-Man 4 is rumoured to bring The Vulture back to Earth-616 (still, we can't help but hope this rumour refers to Venom).
In other news, we may have also some intel on how future animation/live-action crossovers are going to work.
"The Multiverse's dynamic nature will see characters seamlessly transitioning between animated and live-action forms as teased in [Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness," the scooper claims. "Any characters that make a jump to another [universe] [will] become whatever the state of matter is in that universe and adopt [its] likeness."
They'd go on to use Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse's Prowler as an example; apparently, Donald Glover appeared in live-action rather than animation because he was trapped in a cage by Spider-Man 2099 which allowed him to retain his original form.
What this could mean is that, if we see any animated characters make the leap to live-action in the next Avengers movies, they'll become live-action (which makes way more sense than having an animated Miles Morales, for example, helping out in the battle with Kang).
As always, it's best to take rumours like this with a grain of salt. Still, this leaves us with plenty to consider.
"It was shot at a studio in New York," co-director Kemp Powers said earlier this year. "Chris Miller flew to be there in person, and Phil Lord and I were on the video feed giving direction. We got it in at the 11th hour. As a matter of fact, even in audience preview screenings, it was a little cardboard cutout of Donald Glover."
"We knew it was still going to land, though, because the idea of it still got people geeked," fellow director JoaquimDos Santos added. "That's when you know you have something."
Stay tuned for updates as we have them.