How Armor Wars Went From Disney+ Series To MCU Movie

Speaking on the podcast "The Town with Matthew Belloni," Marvel VP of Production and Development Nate Moore explained some of the thought processes behind the decision to upgrade "Armor Wars" from a Disney+ series to a feature film. Moore has been a producer on MCU projects since "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," and most recently worked on "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," so his insight into the matter, though hard to verify, comes straight from the source. And according to Moore, the decision to make "Armor Wars" a movie mostly boiled down to cost.

In regards to the "Armor Wars" upgrade, Moore said, "There were some great ideas that were coming out for that show but that, to be quite honest, felt too big for that show." Those big ideas required even bigger funding according to the producer, especially for a project that will rely so heavily on special effects to depict various Iron Man armors and that must also honor the legacy of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.). "Our Disney+ shows are awesome, and we love them, but the budgets are not the same as the features. That's no secret," Moore said, later adding, "We realized as a feature, not only can we get into some of the beautiful imagery that is from publishing, and there's certainly [beautiful imagery] in 'Armor Wars' run, but also there's ways then to leverage the ideas of that movie and affect other movies down the line."

Certainly, after a decade in the role of James Rhodes, Don Cheadle is long overdue for a movie of his own. Moreover, one of the MCU's strong suits has always been its ability to reconstruct itself on the fly, just like Stark's Iron Man suits. No release date is set for "Armor Wars" as of this writing.