#Marvel’s Werewolf By Night Could Be Coming To Disney+ In New Special

Marvel already has a must-watch “Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special” coming in December 2022, but remember, there’s a nightmare before Christmas, or at least another commercial holiday, called Halloween. If there’s one thing Marvel knows, it’s how to make commercial entertainment. For a time, “Avengers: Endgame” ranked as the highest-grossing film ever, and the only reason it was unseated from that position is because James Cameron’s “Avatar,” the previous record holder, went into re-release in China this year.

Since Phase Three, when “Black Panther” became the first Black superhero to headline his own MCU movie, part of Marvel’s commercial strategy has been diversifying its superhero ranks. Next week marks the release of “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” Marvel’s first Asian-led superhero movie, and we’ve already seen women take the forefront in “Captain Marvel” and “Black Widow.” On the small screen, “WandaVision” and “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” also starred or co-starred non-white male heroes, but so far, we haven’t seen the Latino community represented as prominently in the MCU.

DC has a Latino-led “Blue Beetle” movie coming to HBO Max; the last we heard about that was that Xolo Maridueña (“Cobra Kai”) was in talks to star. What’s interesting about Werewolf by Night is that two different comics characters have held this identity, and one of them, seen just last year in the third volume of the “Werewolf by Night” comic, was an Indigenous member of the Hopi tribe. 

Either way, with a werewolf waiting in the wings, Marvel’s future could be furry and feral.