Belfast appears to be a return to form for the director and an early front runner for awards season. General audiences will have a chance to judge for themselves when it hits theatres on November 12 th. Essentially, the future of the MCU would live or die based on how much audiences connected with the God of Thunder. Favreau and Robert [Downey Jr. Thor became critical to being the sort of tonal bridge—featuring literally a rainbow bridge as well—between as it were the Earthbound and space-bound and fantasy-bound parts of the Marvel universe.
Directing a film for Marvel Studios is a lot of time and work. To that point, only three films in the MCU had been released. So the studio had less experience in making them.
I imagine if he had stayed, the follow up would have been a lot better than it turned out. Specifically, Branagh remembers the agonizing that went into casting the lead roles. At the time, Branagh explained, it was already established that the drama between Thor and Loki would be the lynchpin of the upcoming Avengers movie. So those two characters had to be right, or everyone involved would be out a lot of time and money. Good luck. Branagh certainly brings a sharp, Shakespearean eye to crafting films.
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