Disney delays release of Marvel, Indiana Jones films
Disney has pushed back multiple Marvel superhero films and delayed an Indiana Jones sequel by almost a year in the latest reshuffle of its release calendar.
Movies such as Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Thor: Love And Thunder and Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness all take place within the same interconnected Marvel cinematic universe.
That means a delay to one title often causes a domino effect across the wildly popular, multibillion-dollar-grossing series.
Many of the movies were previously postponed by film set shutdowns early in the pandemic, with insiders telling Variety the latest changes were also due to production delays.
The eagerly awaited new Black Panther film will now arrive in November 2022. Producers have said that the late Chadwick Boseman’s lead role will not be recast for the sequel.
Additional Marvel superhero films including The Marvels and Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania were also delayed by a few months, going into 2023.
Meanwhile, the fifth instalment of the Indiana Jones action franchise was shunted from July 2022 to June 2023.
Returning star Harrison Ford will be 81 years old when the title hits theatres, if the new release date holds.
Ford first took on the role of archaeologist Indiana Jones in 1981’s Raiders Of The Lost Ark — just a few years after achieving global fame as Han Solo in the original Star Wars film.
Production on the latest film was delayed this summer when Ford suffered a shoulder injury on set.