In late 2020, Marvel Studios announced that James Rhodes was set to lead his own series in Armor Wars. As of July 2021, presumptive Star Don Cheadle felt as though production on the project was imminent; however, 3.5 years later, not only has Armor Wars not begun filming, it doesn’t sound like it will anytime soon….if at all.
We probably will start filming sometime next year and are just kind of cracking the story right now, deciding what’s that journey gonna look like, what’s Rhodey’s…the iteration of this going to be.
-Dont Cheadle, July 2021
In an interview with Marvel Studios Parliament member Nate Moore, Collider asked about the status of Armor Wars and was given a clear, if not frustrating answer.
“As Marvel continues to go through this phase, we want to make sure whatever we’re making is awesome. So that means we had to slow down some things that were on the front burner,” said Moore. “It doesn’t mean we’ll never make it,” Moore said of Armor Wars, “but it does mean we just have to be a little bit more considered so that every time out, audiences are guaranteed quality.”
The news doesn’t come as a complete surprise as one of the internet’s busiest bees, My Time To Shine Hello, recently shared the possibility of the film being tossed to the scrap heap. That came, of course, after Cheadle himself cast doubt on the project’s prospects saying, “I’m not sure where anything is right now. I think things are going through a lot of changes, and we’ll see what happens, we’ll see what it is.”
So…it’s not a no but it’s definitely not a yes as every project from Marvel undergoes a lot of changes.
Source: Collider
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