MCU Rumor Roundup: Alden Ehrenreich's MCU Role, Plans For Nova, And Wonder Man's Importance To AVENGERS

MCU Rumor Roundup: Alden Ehrenreich's MCU Role, Plans For Nova, And Wonder Man's Importance To AVENGERS

In our latest MCU rumour roundup, we have news on who Alden Ehrenreich is playing in Ironheart, plans for Nova post-Multiverse Saga, Wonder Man's role in the next Avengers movies, and more big updates...

By JoshWilding - Nov 19, 2024 10:11 AM EST
Filed Under: Wonder Man
Source: The Cosmic Circus

As we head deeper into the closing stages of the Multiverse Saga, the rumour mill continues churning out some wild claims about Marvel Studios' plans for the handful of projects left before Avengers: Secret Wars

The Cosmic Circus has once again shared some new intel, starting by confirming F.R.I.D.A.Y and J.A.R.V.I.S will indeed appear in the upcoming Vision TV series (unfortunately, the site's Alex Perez doesn't elaborate on what form they'll take following reports they'll be "human" rather than A.I.).

It's also noted that while Vision will serve as a follow-up to WandaVision and Agatha All Along, the focus will primarily be on the title character.

When it comes to the long-delayed Ironheart series, the site has heard that Solo: A Star Wars Story star Alden Ehrenreich is playing the son of Obadiah Stane, Ezekiel Stane. However, it will likely be a one-and-done role in the MCU for him as that character.

As for the mystery MCU movie being released in February 2026, Perez is confident that it's Blade "since the script is finally getting to the place where everyone is comfortable with it." However, should more delays follow, Marvel Studios will look to fill that slot with...something. 

While Spider-Man 4 has been slotted between Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, the untitled releases dated for 2026 and 2027 may be part of a brief "Battleworld Saga" which reimagines the MCU after whatever chaos is unleashed by Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom. 

Looking beyond Secret Wars for a moment, the report states, "Nova, I’m hearing will be left as one of the new projects to kick off the next Saga of the MCU, primarily because a part of what’s coming up has to do with the Cosmic side of the MCU and exploring further than what we’ve seen before."

Finally, we have Wonder Man. Perez has heard he'll be part of the next Avengers movies, a claim later backed up by leaker @Cryptic4KQual.

It also sounds like we'll be seeing more from the set of The Fantastic Four: First Steps in the coming days as well.

As always, let us know your thoughts on these rumours in the comments section below. 

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EskimoJ
EskimoJ - 11/19/2024, 10:43 AM
Annihilation?
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/19/2024, 11:13 AM
@EskimoJ - that would be great. Think that's a great opportunity for Captain Marvel, Thor, Rocket's Guardians and the Eternals to return too
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 11/19/2024, 2:45 PM
@EskimoJ - Phoenix Saga?
JayLemle
JayLemle - 11/19/2024, 10:45 AM
'"Nova, I’m hearing will be left as one of the new projects to kick off the next Saga of the MCU, primarily because a part of what’s coming up has to do with the Cosmic side of the MCU and exploring further than what we’ve seen before."'

Good! Let's bring back the Eternals (or what's left of them)!
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 11/19/2024, 10:53 AM
If true then it’s unfortunate to hear that Ehrenreich’s Ezekiel Stane could be a one & done since it would be nice to have more recurring villains in the MCU…

Granted , it depends on how he’s portrayed and utilized in Ironheart but Alden is a good choice for the role so it would suck if that’s all we see of him.

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HammerLegFoot
HammerLegFoot - 11/19/2024, 10:53 AM
@JoshWilding I'm curious do, do you work on multiple articles at one time? Cause you pour them out back to back so quickly, I'm just curious as to how you work.
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 11/19/2024, 11:02 AM
@HammerLegFoot - They are on queue and he can publish them when he needs/wants to. He actually works his ass off, but people just want's to give him some nonsense sometimes for fun. Let's just say it's a tradition.
HammerLegFoot
HammerLegFoot - 11/19/2024, 11:06 AM
@RegularPoochie - Oh yea I've been on this website for years I know about all the hate josh gets. And a queue makes sense. I was just curious cause dude be busting his ass article after article I just wondered how he did it.
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 11/19/2024, 11:11 AM
@HammerLegFoot - Yeah, I think he just writes them all beforehand first and let them be queue, then he spell checks them etc. and then just releases them. People doesn't sometimes understand how long it can take and he makes shit ton of them in a day.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/19/2024, 11:14 AM
@RegularPoochie @HammerLegFoot - I'm pretty impressed by the frequency of articles as well. Even out of the smallest things, the guy writes a full article
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 11/19/2024, 11:41 AM
@HammerLegFoot - I try to do one at a time, but when something new drops, yeah, I can be writing two or three at once. It's not easy, and not my preferred approach, but it's kinda what I have to do to bring you guys these updates as quickly as possible. 😅
HammerLegFoot
HammerLegFoot - 11/19/2024, 1:10 PM
@JoshWilding - Keep up the grind my man!
HammerLegFoot
HammerLegFoot - 11/19/2024, 10:54 AM
At one point if I'm not mistaken wasn't James Gunn suppose to be like in charge to work on the cosmic side of the MCU?
cyclopsprime
cyclopsprime - 11/19/2024, 11:02 AM
@HammerLegFoot - that's before he went to dc
HammerLegFoot
HammerLegFoot - 11/19/2024, 11:03 AM
@cyclopsprime - Ok so I didnt fever dream that.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/19/2024, 11:15 AM
@HammerLegFoot - I was thinking about that recently as well. Don't know if it was real or a rumour, but it was definitely news at one point
Radders
Radders - 11/19/2024, 12:14 PM
@bkmeijer1 - @HammerLegFoot - yep he was supposed to front the cosmic side starting with Guardians 3 but then he got cancelled for some old bad taste from jokes years ago and Marvel/Disney sacked him
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/19/2024, 12:55 PM
@Radders - oh yeah. Didn't remember it being that long ago already though, but you're right. Think I prefer him at DC than at cosmic MCU though anyway. That needed a vision more than anything
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 11/19/2024, 11:03 AM
Considering there isn't a current Avengers team of heroic team, It makes sense that Marvel is trying to use this saga to make up a New Avengers, Young Avengers, and West Coast Avengers to give Earth 616 a chance.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/19/2024, 11:16 AM
@SonOfAGif - I could see the potential recruits already grouping together in Doomsday/Secret Wars, with the next Saga following up on that by officially putting them in teams together.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/19/2024, 11:17 AM
Feels like most of this was already known or speculated before, so doesn't really feel like news. Doubt we'll get a Battleworld Saga though. That should've been a full phase then.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 11/19/2024, 11:19 AM
@bkmeijer1 - idk if Battleworld if they do it needs to be a full phase or one at all

You could just have that be in Secret Wars imo.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/19/2024, 12:54 PM
@TheVisionary25 - exactly. If they wanted to do movies and shows set on Battleworld, it should be for more than a year imo.

Battleworld being limited to just Secret Wars is fine with me too. As long as I get to see God Emperor Doom and some of his barons.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 11/19/2024, 2:55 PM
@bkmeijer1 - A Battleworld Phase makes all the sense.

A Battleworld Saga? Too long.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 11/19/2024, 2:57 PM
@bkmeijer1 - They could call it Phase ♾ instead of Phase 8. Just flip the 8 on it's side.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/19/2024, 5:22 PM
@ObserverIO - as cool as a Battleworld phase would be, I think it's too late now. Saga is indeed too long. And what about Phase 7?
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 11/19/2024, 6:26 PM
@bkmeijer1 - I totally forgot Phase 7, lol.
TyrantBossMedia
TyrantBossMedia - 11/19/2024, 12:00 PM
Instead of race swapping Wonder Man ....where are Bishop, Doctor Voodoo and Static?

Those are just some of the great black characters in Marvel's gallery that I would rather see fleshed out.
abd00bie
abd00bie - 11/19/2024, 12:05 PM
@TyrantBossMedia - Isn't Static DC?
Radders
Radders - 11/19/2024, 12:18 PM
@TyrantBossMedia - Why would they do that? They don't see any legitimacy in those characters, surely you know the MCU only see value in the white characters, so race swap instead?
DocSpock
DocSpock - 11/19/2024, 1:07 PM
@TyrantBossMedia -

They do it for no good reasons at all.
TyrantBossMedia
TyrantBossMedia - 11/19/2024, 2:24 PM
@abd00bie - Yeah my mistake. DC should use her though.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 11/19/2024, 1:10 PM

To sum up:

Eisendork - crap. Wonderman - crap. Nova - crap

Let's talk about something like WW Hulk or Dr Strange 3.

CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 11/19/2024, 3:19 PM
IDK, I think a lot of these plans were before Marvel shifted gears. There isn't enough time to introduce Wonder Man AND give him his own team. Second, Hawkeye was the leader of the West Coast Avengers. I can't imagine the outcry if you give that role to a race switched Wonder Man. Doesn't matter anyway, I don't buy it.

Second, If Ezekiel Stane is wasted in Iron Heart, what a stupid move. That could be your Armor Wars villain for Rhodey or could be a perfect antagonist to a recasted Tony.
Corruptor
Corruptor - 11/19/2024, 7:13 PM
Vision series that focuses on the Vision, will wonders never cease. Wish they'd powered him up a bit more originally, he was a major powerhouse in the Avengers, talking 1970s here before all this white vision crap, but seemed to be very much a secondary character in MCU.
Corruptor
Corruptor - 11/19/2024, 7:14 PM
@Corruptor - and recast T'Challa, Chadwick won't know or care.

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