Is “Everything Everywhere All At Once” Part Of The MCU?
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Y’all remember Everything Everywhere All At Once?
Perhaps the greatest achievement of movies like Everything, Everywhere, All At Once is in how they reclaim and reshape movies not just from each actor’s catalog, but all that American filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino have attempted to borrow from Asian cinema history.
In his later thoughts for his guest spot on the Filmcast, Walter Chaw said that Everything Everywhere All At Once “reclaims all of those appropriations.”
But the movie’s most surprising connection to another dimension-hopping movie franchise turns out to also be the most obvious.
Is Everything Everywhere All At Once part of the MCU?
I mean…this was produced by the Russo brothers. Those guys who directed two Captain America movies, as well as Infinity War and Endgame.
Plus, like, the multiverse is infinite.
And Michelle Yeoh already portrayed Aleta Ogord in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Ying Nan in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
This means that Kang, in all of his canonical variants, has at least one trans person.
Move over, Loki. You’re no longer the only genderfluid character in the MCU.
The Daniels, like the MCU, are committed to supporting LGBTQ+ people
There was one aspect of the movie’s impact that Daniels did want to guide along, and it involved the plot point surrounding the sexuality of the teen character, who is gay. While Everything Everywhere All at Once had yet to secure a distributor in China, the pair were adamant that it could only do so with censors allowed her sexuality to remain a part of the story. “It’s not up to us if the movie is released in China, but all we said was that you can’t cut the gay storyline,” Scheinert said. “That’s all we’ve said to foreign distribution people.”
Their commitment echoes comments made last year by Chloe Zhao, who was similarly insistent that the sexuality of the character Phastos in The Eternals remained intact. The movie never opened in China.
“If they had to censor other stuff, and we got a gay story out there, we’d be so thrilled,” Scheinert said.
Kwan chimed in: “The movie doesn’t work without it.”
So is Everything Everywhere All At Once a part of the MCU?
Like all things, nothing’s official until Kevin Feige says so.
Still, it’s hard to imagine him coming up with a counter argument that wouldn’t sound as silly as his cameo in She-Hulk.
As for the rest of Disney…
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