{"id":140033,"date":"2022-11-26T15:38:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T15:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/why-wakanda-forever-villain-namor-wont-get-his-own-standalone-marvel-movie\/"},"modified":"2022-11-26T15:38:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T15:38:15","slug":"why-wakanda-forever-villain-namor-wont-get-his-own-standalone-marvel-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/why-wakanda-forever-villain-namor-wont-get-his-own-standalone-marvel-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Why ‘Wakanda Forever’ Villain Namor Won’t Get His Own Standalone Marvel Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Marvel Studios’ \u201cBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever,\u201d we’re introduced to a fearsome new villain named Namor. Played by Mexican actor Tenoche Huerta, Namor comes from an undersea community, his life defined by subjugation and colonization. At one point, he explains the origins of his name: If amor<\/em> means love, then he’s an outcast (a mutant<\/em>) starved of affection. no amor<\/em>. namor He’s without love, a loner. He’s also a loaner. Because Marvel Studios doesn’t actually control the character.<\/p>\n

The situation around Namor harkens back to the pre-Marvel Studios\/pre-Disney era of making movies out of Marvel Comics characters, before the studio streamlined and controlled intellectual property. Before Marvel Studios made \u201cIron Man\u201d as its own independently produced film, the company was in the habit of licensing or selling off rights to characters to other studios \u2014 the X-Men went to Fox, Spider-Man went to Sony, etc. And Namor is one of those characters that is still controlled by another studio.<\/p>\n

Not that Namor won’t be back in the MCU, as \u201cBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever\u201d producer Nate Moore confirmed to TheWrap: \u201cHe can return\u201d \u2014 but Disney won’t be able to produce a standalone movie about the character.<\/p>\n

So what’s the deal?<\/p>\n

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Well, Namor’s situation is similar to Marvel Studios’ deal with Universal for Hulk. Neither can star in his own movie because Universal Pictures has the rights to both characters. And he can’t appear by himself in marketing materials, unless it’s part of a series of posters. We spoke to \u201cBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever\u201d producer Moore about the situation and he acknowledged that Namor was \u201cborrowed\u201d like the Hulk.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt honestly affects us more, and not to talk too much out of school, but in how we market the film than it does how we use him in the film,\u201d Moore said. \u201cThere weren’t really things we couldn’t do from a character perspective for him, which is good because clearly, we took a ton of inspiration from the source material, but we also made some big changes to really anchor him in that world in a truth that publishing never really landed on, I would argue, in a big way.\u201d<\/p>\n