{"id":107581,"date":"2025-08-24T23:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T23:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/107581\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T23:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T23:37:07","slug":"marvel-is-the-next-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/107581\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Is the ‘Next 10 Years’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tKumail Nanjiani<\/a> says that he signed on for six Marvel movies when he was cast as the superhero Kingo in Marvel Studios\u2019 \u201cEternals<\/a>,\u201d but that the film\u2019s critical and commercial disappointment \u201cshattered\u201d him and led him to seek out therapy.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe topic came up in Nanjiani\u2019s appearance on fellow stand-up comedian Mike Birbiglia\u2019s \u201cWorking It Out\u201d podcast<\/a>. Nanjiani revealed that his Marvel experience is a key subject in his new stand-up special, releasing on Hulu later this year. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI talked about how I was in this big movie. It came out right after COVID, so I had a year and a half at home to just be like, \u2018Oh, when this thing comes out!’\u201d Nanjiani shared. \u201cBut then it came out and it got really bad reviews and it didn\u2019t do that well. It shattered me too much. That\u2019s when I was like, \u2018Oh I need to go to therapy to figure this out.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNanjiani confirmed that the project was \u201cEternals,\u201d explaining that he thought he would be much more involved in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was like, \u2018Oh, this is going to be my job for the next 10 years,’\u201d Nanjiani continued. \u201cI signed on for six movies. I signed on for a video game. I signed on for a theme park ride. They make you sign up for all this stuff. And you\u2019re like, \u2018This is the next 10 years of my life, so I\u2019ll be doing Marvel movies every year and, in between, I\u2019ll do my own little things, whatever I want to do.\u2019 And then none of that happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEternals\u201d released in November 2021 and was the worst-reviewed Marvel Cinematic Universe entry up to that point. It grossed $402 million globally, which was seen as a theatrical disappointment for a $200 million-budgeted franchise entry from a blockbuster banner like Marvel Studios. Since then, Nanjiani\u2019s Kingo and his fellow Eternals heroes haven\u2019t featured in another another Marvel project. <\/p>\n

\n\tMarvel is currently gearing up for the team-up \u201cAvengers: Doomsday\u201d in 2026, which will bring together characters from across various projects. However, no \u201cEternals\u201d cast members have been revealed to be part of the film\u2019s ensemble thus far.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor me, what really hit me was just realizing that too much of my self-esteem is tied up in other people\u2019s reaction to my work,\u201d Nanjiani reflected before jokingly adding, \u201cAlso, other people have way bigger problems than this!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kumail Nanjiani says that he signed on for six Marvel movies when he was cast as the superhero…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,70042,70043],"class_list":{"0":"post-107581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-eternals","10":"tag-kumail-nanjiani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}