After ‘The Marvels’ Disastrous Box Office Ms. Marvel Actress Iman Vellani Says She’s “Been Assured” Character Will Return To Marvel Cinematic Universe

Ms. Marvel actress Iman Vellani recently shared that she had “been assured” that her character will return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe after The Marvels’ abysmal box office.

Speaking with Polygon at Crunchyroll’s 2024 Anime Awards, Vellani was asked if she had been assured a place in the future of Marvel Studios.

She responded, “I have been assured. So that feels good, but there was no more assurance than that. [laugh] They give me breadcrumbs, and I try and make a meal out of it.”

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Vellani’s time as Ms. Marvel in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has not done well. The Disney+ show only garnered 249 million minutes viewed according to Nielsen in the first week that it aired. It was at the time the worst performing Marvel Studios production on Disney+.

She next appeared in live-action in The Marvels, which bombed at the box office. The film only grossed $199.7 million in its entire run. It only grossed $84.5 million domestically and another $115.2 million internationally.

Interestingly, before the film even bombed at the box office, Ms. Marvel producer Sana Amanat begged panel attendees at San Diego Comic-Con to complain to Kevin Feige to greenlight a second season.

LaughingPlace.com reported that Amanat said, “It’s great to see more demand. You know, complain. I’m happy to have [you] guys complain to Kevin for more. Kevin, let’s get a second season.”

Amanat previously lashed out at viewers for not watching the show telling NBC Asian America, “I think it comes from a place of anger and a sense that their identities are being threatened.”

She added, “If they can’t connect with it, then that’s OK. I just wish they wouldn’t try to put it down.”

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As for whether we will see Vellani’s Ms. Marvel again, she previously confirmed that the character would be front and center in the upcoming Marvel Zombies animated show on Disney+.

Vellani told The Direct that Ms. Marvel would be the “center” of the series.

She said, “We’ve done the whole thing. It was amazing. It was so much fun. And I love—there are a lot of cool characters in the ‘Marvel Zombies’ show. And Kamala is kind of the center of the show.”

“They described it to me, it’s like, ‘She’s basically the Frodo of the story.’ And I was like, ‘That’s amazing,’” she said.

Vellani continued, “And I get to interact and meet all these people along her journey. And, yes, they’re only the voices, and I don’t get to hear their voices in real-time. But just, it’s my fantasies, right?”

“Like, knowing Kamala is going to interact with some really cool people, even if it’s just animation, is so special in a lot of ways,” she stated.

As for her fate in live-action, that might be more up in the air as noted by Amanat’s comments at San Diego Comic-Con and what Kevin Feige told Entertainment Weekly last year.

Feige said, “We want Marvel Studios and the MCU projects to really stand out and stand above. So, people will see that as we get further into Phase 5 and 6. The pace at which we’re putting out the Disney+ shows will change so they can each get a chance to shine.”

He then confirmed they would be cutting the number of shows they were producing as well as spacing them out, saying, “Both, I think.”

Still later in the interview he said, “I think when we are doing about eight projects a year — and again, I said this is going to shift a little bit — they all have to be different. They all have to stand apart and stand alone and be different from one another.”

What do you make of Vellani’s comments that she’s been assured Ms. Marvel will return?

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