Spoiler warning! This post contains excessive spoilers for an untitled Marvel film due for release in 2021, such as possible titles and details on which production company would be creating the film.
A Marvel film due for release—spoiler warning!—in 2021 will remain without a title, for fear that giving it any sort of name would ruin the viewing experience for fans hoping for a surprise.
Until now, the film has been under the working title “Untitled Marvel 2021”. When a meeting of Disney / Marvel executives raised the serious concern that naming a character in the final title, as has been the case in earlier Marvel films such as “Iron Man”, would spoil the film, it was agreed that the film would carry its working title through to release. However, Shindig has heard from sources close to the matter that “Untitled Marvel 2021” was deemed to still be far too full of spoilers: it spoils both the name of the production company making the film, the year it’s due for release, and the fact that it won’t have a more descriptive title—all details that fans have a right to find out for themselves when they go to the screening.
As such, the film will simply not have a title. People involved with the film have been ordered not talk about it in any way—publicly, privately, or otherwise—unless absolutely necessary, and to refer to it simply as “that assortment of still images arranged in such a way as to create the illusion of a moving image when viewed in sequence” if they desperately need to bring context to their conversations with colleagues. That’s still a bit too spoiler-heavy for our tastes, but I guess you can’t win them all.
In a similar vein, that assortment of still images arranged in such a way as to create the illusion of a moving image when viewed in sequence will not feature in any sort of marketing or promotion. We at Shindig are extremely grateful—it wouldn’t do to have announcements, posters, or trailers spoiling a film that we otherwise would never have heard about. Cinemas have been instructed not to give out tickets prior to screening, lest they spoil the design of the ticket or what time the screening begins.
The final piece of—spoiler warning!—Marvel’s plan to avoid any possibility of spoilers for the film is to avoid any foreshadowing, Chekhov’s guns, in media res, prolepsis, framing devices, or any other such storytelling devices that could inadvertently spoil later parts of the story for audiences who are still only seeing the beginning.
We have it on good authority that this assortment of still images arranged in such a way as to create the illusion of a moving image when viewed in sequence, which is under production at an unspecified production house and due for release on an unspecified date, will consist simply of a single title card reading, “They died.” Sorry—we should have included a spoiler warning for that.