Since Black Panther: Wakanda Forever dropped, there’s been murmurs about a standalone Namor movie.
The king of the seas, played by Tenoch Huerta was one of the new characters introduced to audiences and was an instant hit as the antagonist of the movie. However, fans hopeful for the solo movie will be disappointed according to Wakanda Forever producer, Nate Moore.
Speaking in an interview with The Wrap, he revealed that while Namor can still feature in the MCU, he can’t be in a standalone film as a result of Marvel Studios’ deal with Universal Pictures. As Universal still owns the rights to Namor.
The arrangement is similar to the agreement Marvel and Universal have over the rights to Hulk. Universal currently holds the right to any solo Hulk film, but Marvel has the rights to use Bruce Banner. Moore explained that Marvel has majority of the creative freedom on deciding how to use some of the shared characters with Universal, however, it is not without restrictions.
Moore added, “It honestly affects us more, and not to talk too much out of school, but in how we market the film than it does how we use him in the film.” He continued, “There weren’t really things we couldn’t do from a character perspective for him, which is good because clearly, we took a ton of inspiration from the source material, but we also made some big changes to really anchor him in that world in a truth that publishing never really landed on, I would argue, in a big way.”
