Armor Wars producer explains why the venture grew to become a film

After enjoying James Rhodes for properly over a decade, Don Cheadle is getting the possibility to headline his personal venture within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige introduced throughout Disney’s 2020 Investor Day that they had been creating an Armor Wars TV collection, however the studio wound up altering their minds and the venture will now be a film as an alternative.

Simply why did Marvel Studios resolve to show Armor Wars right into a film? Producer Nate Moore defined throughout a latest interview on The City with Matthew Belloni that the venture was merely getting too expensive for a TV collection.

“I imply in that case, there have been some nice concepts that had been popping out for that present, however that, to be fairly sincere, felt too large for that present. […] Type of conceptually, and from… You recognize, our Disney+ reveals are superior, and we love them, however the budgets will not be the identical because the options, that’s no secret,” Moore defined. “And while you’re speaking a few present that wishes to be about seeing all of the cool armors and, you realize, Don Cheadle interacting with all these armors and type of the legacy of Tony Stark, that grew to become sort of price prohibitive to do as a present. And we realized as a characteristic, not solely can we get into among the lovely imagery that’s from publishing, and there’s definitely an Armor Wars run, but additionally there’s methods then to leverage the concepts of that film and have an effect on different films down the road.“

Don Cheadle has performed James Rhodes since Iron Man 2 again in 2010 when he took over the position from Terrence Howard. Since then, he has gone on to look in Iron Man 3, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil Warfare, Captain Marvel, Avengers: Infinity Warfare, and Avengers: Endgame. He additionally appeared in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, What If…?, and can seem alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn within the upcoming Secret Invasion collection. Talking of Secret Invasion, it was acknowledged throughout Marvel’s panel on the D23 Expo that Secret Invasion would lead immediately into Armor Wars. It’s not clear if this alteration will have an effect on that plan.