At every opportunity, Marvel Studios boss and producer Kevin Feige refers to the end of Phase 3 – which concludes with the untitled Avengers 4 – as the “culmination” of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The long-form story that begin with 2008’s Iron Man and that changed Hollywood’s thinking about movie franchises, is coming to an end.
Joe: If you were to think of the Marvel universe over the last ten years of the book, this is the ending of the book.
And then there may be new books written, but this is certainly the ending of this book.