What to Expect From Marvel in 2021 & Beyond

        This Year has been a complete drought for die hard Marvel fans, Not a single cinematic Movie/TV show has released. To end this drought Marvel has come up with a exciting Movies/TV Shows/Animated OG's/Short Films & also the inclusion of lot of Marvel characters from comics.

As a Marvel fan, I didn't expect that Marvel Studios will go on a such huge scale to introduce his lot more comics character to a cinematic experience that too this early.

Below is the list of Marvel Stockpile that will release in 2021

1) Wanda Vision - TV Show

This has been the first official announcement by the Marvel team that this show will be out by mid-Dec, but then they take a u-turn & finalized the 15th Jan 2021 as the release date.

Paul Bettany & Elizabeth Olsen will reprise their respective role as Vision & Wanda in the show.

Wanda Vision Trailer

2) The Falcon & The Winter Soldier - TV Show

Marvel officially announced on Investors Day,2020 that they are going to release this show on March 19,2021.

Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie & Daniel Bruhl will represent their respective role as Winter Soldier, Falcon & Zemo

Marvel has unveiled the first look during Disney Investors Day,2020. Below is the link for the same.

First Look at Falcon&WinterSoldier

3) Black Widow - Movie

A Spinoff movie for our female avenger Natasha Romanoff AkA Black Widow, This Movie was initially going to release in March 2020. But due to pandemic, it gets postponed multiple times. 

Finally, Marvel going to release this movie on 1st, May 2021. The film will be based on the events that have happened between the Civil war & the Infinity War.

Black Widow Trailer

4) Loki - TV Show

God of Mischief & fellow pal of our Thor, Loki is coming to Disney+ in May 2021

Tom Hiddleston will reprise his role as Loki & Show will take place after the events of Endgame in which Loki steals the Tesseract & vanishes.

Marvel has disclosed the exclusive clip during the Disney Investor Day,2020. Below is the link for the same.

Loki Trailer

5) What IF - Animated TV Show

This is actually the first Zombie Show by Marvel & will encounter the other side of the coin,  like what will happen if this is would have another outcome.

The date has not finalized yet, but it's hinted to be released in Summer 2021.

Below is the link for the exclusive first look of What-If 

What If First Look

6) Shang Chi & The Legend of the Ten Rings - Movie 

This will be the 2nd movie of 2021 by Marvel. The Plan was to release this movie before Black Widow but they changed the preference & we are going to see the Black Widow first & then Shang Chi.

No Teaser/First Look Marvel has unveiled yet. Marvel teased the release in July 2021.

7) Eternals - Movie

Eternals are the Immortals of the Marvel Universe, they are literally god-like figures, this movie is also scheduled to release in summer 2020, but again Covid shifted it to 2021.

Famous Personalities like Angeline Jolie, Richard Madden & Kit Harrington will be seen in this Movie. The release date has finalized for the month of November 2021.

8) Ms. Marvel - Animated TV Show

A whole new character introduced by Marvel, it's originally conceived as the female counterpart to Captain Marvel. Kamala Khan is Marvel's first Muslim character to headline her own comic book & now in a TV show.

The first look has been unveiled by Marvel, Below is the link for the same.

Ms Marvel Talks

9) Hawkeye - TV Show

The shooting of this show has just begun & Marvel has expected to wrap it up by the mid of 2021. The released date has not yet finalized.

Jeremey Renner will reprise his role as Hawkeye & Kate Bishop- The Archer, played by Hailee Steinfield. Marvel has eyed a release in Late 2021.

10) Spiderman 3 - Movie

Rumors state that we are going to see a Crossover of all 3 Spidermen's i.e. Spiderman played by Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield & Tom Holland (Not Officially declared yet).

Also, Spiderman 3 will bring back Alfred Molina's Doctor Octopus(Confirmed).

**All of this concludes the 2021 slate as of now, Marvel may do some changes in the release date of the movies & shows.

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After 2021 & Beyond

1) Captain Marvel 2 - Movie

Brie Larson will return as Carol Danvers for Part-2. She will be joined by Ms Marvel played by female lead Iman Vellani & Monica Rambeau played by WandaVision's Teyonah Parris.

Expected to release in theatres on Nov 11, 2022.

2) She Hulk - TV Show

Tim Roth returns as the abomination & Hulk himself, Mark Ruffalo will also appear in the series along with Jennifer Walters who is going to play the role of She Hulk.

Marvel has not disclosed release date yet.

3) Moon Knight- TV Show

Not much has revealed about this show (casting, storyline & release date). It will be based on a Complex Vigilante Theme. Let's wait for the official announcement.

Marvel has not disclosed the release date yet.

4) Secret Invasion - TV Show

Samuel Jackson will be back as Nick Fury & Ben Mendelsohn from Captain Marvel returns as Skrull Talos. These two will team up to take forward this show. Other cast & storyline has not revealed yet.

5) Ironheart - TV Show

The storyline will be based on the most advanced Iron Man Suit created since originally created by Mr.Stark. The release date has not yet finalized.

6) Armor Wars - TV Show

Don Cheadle will return as James Rhodes AKA War Machine. In the Armor Wars, Tony Starks worst Nightmare will come true. The release Deadline has not yet set by Marvel.

7) The GOTG Holiday Special - Short TV Show

Before the release of the Third movie in the Guardians of the Galaxy Franchise, the special exclusive series will release i.e. "Holiday Special", James Gunn will direct this show. Expected to release at the end of Dec 2022.

8) I am Groot - Animated Limited Series

This Series is actually created on Marvel Fan's demand & the character that receives so much applause from fans. GROOT the cute character of Marvel Universe will have his own limited series coming to Disney Plus.

9) Thor: Love & Thunder - Movie

World Class Actor Christian Bale has been cast in this movie as villain "Gorr: The God Butcher", Chris Hemsworth & Natalie Portman will also reprise their individual roles. 

The release date has kept as May 6,2022.

10) Antman Wasp Quantumania - Movie

The third installment in the Ant-Man Franchise will be named "Quantumania". Peyton Reed is back to direct the same. One of the Powerful Marvel villains will also be seen in this movie i.e. "Kang: The Conqueror" it will be played by Actor Jonathan Majors. The release date has not yet finalized.

11) Fantastic Four - Movie

This is the biggest surprise for me, Had never thought that Marvel will even look at this franchise because Sony has already wasted the whole thing. James Watts will direct this movie. I Hope Marvel will do justice to these 4 Characters. Nothing has yet Finalized about the Movie.

12) Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness - Movie

This will be the first horror genre movie by Marvel. Scarlett witch will also be seen playing a pivotal role in this movie along with Dr.Strange. This movie will tie the knots with the events of Wanda Vision & Spiderman 3.

Marvel has a targeted release of March 2022.

13) Black Panther 2 - Movie

Kevin Fiege(Marvel Boss) clearly stated that "There will be no recasting for Black panther", which clearly means Chadwick Boseman will remain as our Black Panther forever. The other side to this also means that we are going to see the Female Black Panther in the second installment.

Marvel has set the possibility to release this in July 2022.

14) Blade - Movie

This is also one of the surprises that Marvel has given during San Diego Comicon,2019. Oscar-winning actor Mahershala Ali had signed up for this movie. It will be based on Blade's Backstory as a Half Vampire.

Marvel has not yet disclosed the release date.

Other Important Mentions:

* Captain Marvel will reportedly make Brie Larson the Highest-Paid Actress in Superhero film.

*Doctor Doom will be the Villain in Fantastic 4 Movie. (Not Official yet).

* Due to superlative casting in "Thor: Love & Thunder", It may give us the Vibe of Avengers 5.

* Deadpool 3 is in Development (confirmed).

* Thor: Love & Thunder will have a crossover with GOTG 3. (NotOfficial)

* Wands Vision's New Poster is also revealed during the Investor's Day, which hinted at the New Costume of Wanda in the show.

* Chris Evans will voice Buzz Lightyear in a new origin film 'LightYear'. Coming in 2022.

*Kevin Fiege confirms that "Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness" will connect directly with "Spiderman 3".

* No New Recasting will be done for "Black Panther", Chadwick Boseman will remain the eternal Black Panther of MCU forever.

* Disney also announced their first Original animated series i.e Baymax, Zootopia, Tiana & Moana at Investors Day.

* A Ice Age Spinoff series is in the work.

* The Lion King prequel is officially in the works at Disney with Barry Jenkins set to direct.

* Reservation Dogs, co-created by Taika Waititi will release on FX in 2021.

* A Night at the Museum animated sequel is officially in the works at Disney+.

* We may see the Female Version of Loki as well in the Loki Show.

* Cars Sequel series is in development at Disney+.

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Do let me know in the comments section, which Movie/Show you are most excited for :)

Stay Tuned for more such Worth Stuff ;)

Top 10 - CIA's Bizarre Operations that are beyond our expectations

CIA-Central Intelligence Agency many of us had heard about it in News Especially in Hollywood Movies like Mission Impossible & Bourne franchise  & knew few things about it, many of us not, as it is a secret service agency just like India has RAW America has CIA.

Every secret agency can go through any limit to save their country to gather intelligence about the potential threats to their country, the same goes for the CIA as well, but you will surprise or we can say shocked to see that at what limit the CIA has gone to serve their nation.

Small History:

Founded on 18th September 1947, CIA is the America's premier foreign intelligence agency and was created after the attack on pearl harbor by Japan.

Then President Harry S Truman insisted America should have its own intelligence agency to coordinate with other countries and to identify the possible threats to their nation, Soon President Truman signed the National Security Act & CIA is formed.

Below are a few bizarre operations that the CIA has carried out throughout history to save America or To gather intelligence for America-

10) Operation Northwoods

     In the year 1962, Cuba under the regime of Fidel Castro emerged as a communist nation, just close to 103 miles from Florida, thus USA cannot tolerate the communist ally so close to their nation.

     So USA needs an excuse to enter into a war with tiny nation CUBA, so they started Operation Northwoods it is also known as false flag operations, the plan was to attack your own country and accused CUBA of doing it, to execute this they have exploded the military ship & hijacked their own planes from the base.

9) Operation Paperclip

     Even Adolf Hitler thought that to win future wars we need advancement in scientific & military technologies as WWII ended many of the Nazi's genius brains fled Germany and many of them get hide somewhere.

               This gives birth to the operation paperclip, the program was America's mission to source the best nazi geniuses and offer them asylum in America after ignoring their crimes in exchange for working for the US, approximately 700 german scientists were transported out of nazi Germany after WWII.

This includes one famous scientist named "Verner Von Braun" who helped Nazi Germany to build V2 rockets, he later created technology that helped America to win the space race and finally put men on the moon.

8) Cold Eyed Economic Warfare(Faulty Equipment)

     Siberia has one of the world's largest gas fields, but it's thousands of miles away from its potential customer in western Europe. Russia emerged as the  

helping hand and proposed the plan of an endless supply of gas coming down the new Siberian pipeline & connecting to the german gas network and then on to the rest of Europe.

     As America wants to cripple these programs of Russia and to want to collapse Russia's economy, they had taken the harsh step.

                          Russia's pipeline was robust large but old fashioned, so they need an advanced pipeline system, KGB agent started approaching the western companies for software to update the soviet gas pipe network, this thing came to the attention of the CIA, so by using a team of hackers they cleverly wrote industrial bogus machine code & sold it to the KGB spy.

      As they installed this malware occupied code on their network, the malicious program started working as expected the code sabotage a few pipes & valves, creating enormous pressure in the pipeline.

      In 1982, finally, the explosion took place, the blast was so horrific it was clearly visible from the space-based spy satellites.

7) Operation Mongoose

     In response to a request by US attorney general Robert Kennedy, the CIA produces a list of few dirty tricks to dispose of Castro's regime in Cuba.

     To start this operation the USA had first cut the oil supply & export of sugar to Cuba, but ultimately Soviets emerges and helps Cuba with oil & sugar, when this trick doesn't work the CIA' decided they would destabilize Cuba's government by assassinating its leader, Fidel Castro.

     In a series of secret meetings of America's top generals, they have come up with ridiculous ideas & it is unclear how many of these they had ever tried, few of the tricks are poisoning his cigar, pants, scuba suit, or even seashells  #Hilarious 

6) Acoustic Kitty

       In the 1960s, the CIA attempted a short-lived experiment nicknamed  "Acoustic Kitty", CIA operatives noticed that the cat would wander around the premises without drawing attention.

    CIA implanted a three-quarter inch transmitter into the "loses", the fleshy part at the back of a cat's neck & microphone was put in the cat's ear canal, with an almost invisible wire connecting two devices so they would be able to eavesdrop on communist.

    But cats though able to roam into the desired location easily didn't exactly make the best spies, CIA found that the cat would walk off the job when got hungry. unfortunately, on the first and only mission, the cat was run over, thus the agency concluded that training the cats would not be practical.

5) Operation Gold

     In the 1950s during the cold war, monitoring the soviet union and its influences worldwide was the top priority of the CIA.

                     Berlin was the vast communications network from France to deep within Russia, In a joint operation with MI-6, they came up with a plan to assessed the tapping into underground communication line in the Soviet sector of berlin. So In January 1954 the director of CIA, Allen Dulles approved the covert tunneling and tapping operation.

                 So CIA built the 450m tunnel named as berlin tunnel, to hack the phones of the soviet union HQ in berlin. A KGB mole into the MI6 has tipped off the soviet during the operations planning, so to protect their source KGB allowed the operation to continue until April 1956, during this period soviet fed the US fake info for a year.

4) Operation Sukarno

     Seeking to discredit the president of Indonesia, during the cold war, CIA agents used a look like of the president and created few erotic clips which seemingly look like a president is a person who is doing such shameful things & try to blackmail him.

     But the CIA failed to realize the president itself already was a famed womanizer and this movie had no impact at all on his popularity.

3) Operation Torture

     CIA's interrogation technique on suspected terrorists includes Waterboarding & Sleep Deprivation. High bass music is played to disorientate detainees, the music includes the "sesame street theme" tune.

     CIA even reportedly lied to congress, the justice department, the white house about what exactly they are doing in interrogating prisoners & that interrogations are far more brutal & more widespread than has been publicly known.

2) Operation Mkultra 

     It is the weirdest, risky & inhuman thing the CIA has ever done, it includes Mind Control experiments involving the secret administering of LSD to normal people of the nation to create a so-called Manchurian agent. The paper leaked clearly states that the lethal dose of the sarin has been given to volunteers who are involved in this experiment. 

This experiment has even led to the apparent suicide of the CIA employee 9 days after he has been being drugged.

1) Operation Nanda Devi

       Yes, you heard it right, Nanda Devi- a reference to India, In 1965, the CIA in a joint operation with RAW implanted the Nuclear powered device on the Indian mountain Nanda Devi to keep an eye on China's nuclear test.

       Due to avalanche it ultimately swept away & remains undiscovered to date, India government has closed the area for decades with exceptions such as Army Involvement. 

                India has even set up a commission for this, In 1967 operation had finally scored a success, but still, one nuclear device remains undiscovered which is dangerous for everyone.

End thoughts-

We are no one to judge someone by what they are doing or has done in the past, As per the CIA whatever they have done is patriotism for them, but for other people, it may be brutality. Few of the operations are treated as well-executed and well-behaved operations while some indicated the act from the Hell, I am leaving this to you, how you are thinking about this, Do let me know in the comments section which operation you find interesting & which one you think is the act of brutality.

Glossary:- 

1. Asylum - protection given to someone who has left their home country as a political refugee
2. V2 Rockets- It was the world's first long-range guided rocket.
3. Robust- Strong 
4. Malicious code- the code which is used to cause an undesired effect
5. KGB - Secret service agency of Soviet Russia.
6. Sabotage - Delibartely destroying or damaging something
7. MI6- Secret Service agency of England.
8. Covert - Confidential
9. Taping - recording of sound/audio/video/pictures
10. Mole - A spy who achieves a trustworthy position in the security defense of another nation.
11. Waterboarding - An interrogation technique similar to drowning
12. Sleep deprivation - A condition suffering from lack of sleep
13. Sesame Street theme tune(CIA) - A remix disturbed version of the original song which is used on prisoners. 
14. LSD/SARIN -A type of drug used in the Mind experiments techniques.
15. Manchurian Agent - A puppet agent used by the enemy.
16. Avalanche - A mass of snow, ice & rocks falling from the mountain

Few Movies and Web series suggestions based on Espionage theme:-

Movies:-  

1. The Report(2019) - Scott Burns
2. Salt(2010) - Phillip Noyce
3. Bridge of Spies(2015) - Steven Spielberg
4. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy(2011) - Tomas Alfredson
5. Argo(2012) - Ben Affleck

Web series:- 

1. Stranger Things
2. The Looming tower
3. Jack Ryan
4. The Spy
5. Covert Affairs

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