Marvel Studios Turning 'Armor Wars' Starring Don Cheadle Into A Movie
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It has been a while, but a Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) project is jumping formats. Instead of being a six-episode Disney+ series, Armor Wars, starring Don Cheadle as James “Rhodey” Rhodes, will now be a theatrical film. No release date has been set. In fact, Armor Wars’s redevelopment could push its release date back. Its 2023 production start may now be at the other end of the year at best, and further clouds a release timetable.
Yassir Lester has been retained as writer, having been head writer when it was still in a television format. There had not been any directors attached for the episodes as of yet. With the switch to theatrical film, the project would now only need one.
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Initially announced at Disney Investor Day in 2020, the public needed reassurance that Armor Wars was still active when it was absent from the Marvel Studios panel at San Diego Comic-Con this past July. It would ultimately be part of the studio’s D23 Expo panel earlier this month.
The storyline of Armor Wars is said to follow the comics of the same name in trying to keep Stark tech, especially Iron Man armors, out of the wrong hands. It sure looked like a great connective tissue between Tony’s death in Avengers: Endgame and Armor Wars where Rhodes finds himself keeping the armors out of a corporate tussle. With Riri Williams suiting up in Ironheart, she appeared to be the best candidate to pass the armors to, but it is not looking like it will end up that way.
There have been two previous instances where MCU projects shifted formats. The first was Inhumans, which had been announced as part of Phase Three with a November 2, 2018 release date. It was removed from the slate in April 2016 before being reborn in November of that year as an ill-fated drama series for ABC that would run the following Fall. The second is Hawkeye, which also took a movie-to-series jump.
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Source(s): The Hollywood Reporter