I think that you are correct.We could be looking at this all wrong. Many people assume since it takes place mostly in the past and the fact that Natasha is dead in present time that this movie won't have any future implications - - and I think that couldn't be further from the truth. They've been working on this movie for over 2 years even before they had a director. I think this movie will play a critical role in setting up things to come.
First off we dont know with certainty what Marvel has up its sleeve--let's just say the rumors for Dark Avengers is true - - this movie could set the ground work for that and the characters introduced in this movie would be feutured more prominently in future projects. That's just o e example of how easy it could be to give this movie significant e in its current time line.
We are thinking way too small and limited thinking since it occurs in the past it can't set up this new phase. Kevin has shown he's a competent man so at the very least let's assume he knows what he's doing and if he purposely called this the start of a new phase he did it for a reason!
We could be looking at this all wrong. Many people assume since it takes place mostly in the past and the fact that Natasha is dead in present time that this movie won't have any future implications - - and I think that couldn't be further from the truth. They've been working on this movie for over 2 years even before they had a director. I think this movie will play a critical role in setting up things to come.
First off we dont know with certainty what Marvel has up its sleeve--let's just say the rumors for Dark Avengers is true - - this movie could set the ground work for that and the characters introduced in this movie would be feutured more prominently in future projects. That's just o e example of how easy it could be to give this movie significant e in its current time line.
We are thinking way too small and limited thinking since it occurs in the past it can't set up this new phase. Kevin has shown he's a competent man so at the very least let's assume he knows what he's doing and if he purposely called this the start of a new phase he did it for a reason!
Creating a framework of things to come is something that I think could be this film’s secret weapon.Where FFH served as more of an epilogue to Phase 4, this could be the prologue for things to come.
Also Val was in Falcon and the Winter Soldier.After watching both BW and Haweye, it's pretty obvious now that BW could and should have been a Phase 3 movie. The only connection it has to Phase 4 is that Yelena returns in Hawkeye...but characters return from old movies all the time in the MCU, just ask Jane, Darcy, Trevor Slattery, and Sharon Carter.