Marvel faces its next big challenge as it tries to go through a Phase

The thought of a Marvel Cinematic Universe has from the beginning given its films an operatic flavor, where the interlocking template was bigger than any one title or personality. Yet the studio’s formal unveiling of new “phases” of its grand plans at Comic-Con underscored how the challenge of connecting multiple movies into one sprawling organism might have become, to borrow from an additional Disney franchise, a trap.Continue Reading