Every Marvel Movie That Isn’t Part Of The MCU

Well before the Marvel Cinematic Universe, live-action movies were adapting Marvel Comics’ famous characters and laying the groundwork for the rise of superhero movies in the 2000s. Prior to Marvel Studios’ release of Iron Man in 2008, the first official entry into the official MCU timeline, non-MCU Marvel movies were often regarded as critical failures that didn’t manage to capture the magic of the comics. After the commercial and critical failure of Howard the Duck, Marvel was facing bankruptcy and chose to sell the movie rights to its most well-known properties, including the X-Men and The Fantastic Four, allowing several films featuring those characters to be developed by other production studios.