Disney Removes MULAN From Release Schedule; Pushes Back New STAR WARS & AVATAR Movies By A Year

Disney Removes MULAN From Release Schedule; Pushes Back New STAR WARS & AVATAR Movies By A Year

Some disappointing, but not entirely unsurprising news here. Thanks to a spike in coronavirus cases, Disney has decided to pull Mulan from its release schedule and shake up Star Wars and Avatar dates...

By MarkCassidy - Jul 23, 2020 03:07 PM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars

As The Unites States and many other parts of the world struggle to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, Disney has decided to reshuffle much of its schedule, postponing the live-action Mulan movie indefinitely and pushing back James Cameron's Avatar sequels along with the untitled Star Wars movies.

Niki Caro's Mulan remake was scheduled for release on Aug. 21 (after already being delayed twice), but now finds itself in limbo without a new set launch date. It's possible that Disney may eventually cut their loses and send it direct to VOD, but that will almost certainly be a last resort.

“Over the last few months, it’s become clear that nothing can be set in stone when it comes to how we release films during this global health crisis, and today that means pausing our release plans for Mulan as we assess how we can most effectively bring this film to audiences around the world,” a Walt Disney Studios spokesperson said in a statement.

This shakeup also means that we won't be returning to the galaxy far, far away (on the big screen, at least) until 2023, as the three untitled Star Wars movies on Disney's calendar have also been pushed back by a year. They will now hit theaters on December 2023, 2025, and 2027.

There's no mention of Marvel's Black Widow, so we assume that's sticking with its November 6, 2020 date.

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QuietStorm
QuietStorm - 7/23/2020, 3:33 PM
Welp, time for Black Widow to move again along with Tenet and Wonder Woman
Battabing
Battabing - 7/23/2020, 9:43 PM
@QuietStorm -
Been saying everything should be moved back a year. Gonna keep saying it.
Highflyer
Highflyer - 7/23/2020, 3:34 PM
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 7/23/2020, 4:06 PM
@Highflyer -
2013venjix
2013venjix - 7/23/2020, 3:36 PM
We all have to be alive to see these film sequels.
MasterMix
MasterMix - 7/23/2020, 3:37 PM
This year sucks... that is all
QuietStorm
QuietStorm - 7/23/2020, 3:50 PM
@MasterMix -
ShellHead
ShellHead - 7/23/2020, 3:38 PM
This would've been over in June if literally anyone else was president
Battabing
Battabing - 7/23/2020, 9:45 PM
@ShellHead -
You ain't lyin'.
dracula
dracula - 7/23/2020, 3:38 PM
covid

99OPTIMISTPRIME
99OPTIMISTPRIME - 7/23/2020, 3:54 PM
@dracula -
movie studio execs
dracula
dracula - 7/23/2020, 3:56 PM
@WAKANDABATMANFOREVER - i doubt even the mcu can beat this. dont expect many billion dollar movies for a few years, at most will probably be back to how it use to be when at most one movie reached that
99OPTIMISTPRIME
99OPTIMISTPRIME - 7/23/2020, 4:04 PM
@dracula - No billion dollar movies for a while? I agree! But the MCU can still set the pace, and the bar. So much more so than other franchise movies can.
TheGrayGhost
TheGrayGhost - 7/23/2020, 3:38 PM
Based on this, by the time Avatar 5 hits the original will gearing up to celebrate its 20th birthday
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 7/23/2020, 3:40 PM
Avatar being delayed again? Well it's a day ending in y. So what else is new?
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 7/23/2020, 3:43 PM
Just release Avatar underwater. It's what Cameron would want.
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 7/23/2020, 4:17 PM
@Reeds2Much - hahahahaha I like you. Will you be my friend?
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 7/23/2020, 3:49 PM
Wonder if the 2023 Star Wars movie is gonna be Waititi's. Although I believe that besides Thor, he is also still workimg on Akira and that football movie with Fassbender.

If Star Wars moves, Marvel has to move too. And if that november release moves to october, I know the perfect contender:

GhostDog
GhostDog - 7/23/2020, 3:52 PM
I was 15 when Avatar 1 dropped. I’ll be 28 when the sequel comes out...
Kyos
Kyos - 7/23/2020, 4:29 PM
@BlackBeltJones - ...thanks, I just realized how old I'll be by the time the Avatar sequel is supposed to be out... (°_°)'
99OPTIMISTPRIME
99OPTIMISTPRIME - 7/23/2020, 3:58 PM

The safest move, is to at least wait for a successful vaccine. But I do hope Black Widow stays in 2020. MCU movies have become by far, the most consistent money-makers in cinematic history. I feel like they have an obligation to go first. A civic duty!😂
Battabing
Battabing - 7/23/2020, 9:50 PM
@WAKANDABATMANFORElying.
Pay attention to what happens to the school season.
If people don't send their kids back to school, movie season this fall is dead, too.
WakandaTech
WakandaTech - 7/23/2020, 4:07 PM
So Avatar 2 on the same day as Aquaman 2?

Wonder Woman is for sure moving to 2021

WakandaTech
WakandaTech - 7/23/2020, 4:08 PM
This will be MCU new release dates next year 2021

Black Widow - Feb
Eternals - May
Shang-Chi - August
Spiderman 3 - November
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