page_title: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on The Walt Disney Company
section_title: Marvel Cinematic Universe
hierarchical_section_title: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on The Walt Disney Company / Cinema and television / Marvel Cinematic Universe
caption_attribution_description: English: Destin Daniel Cretton speaking at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California.
context_page_description: The Walt Disney Company and its subsidiaries have been variously impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic; the company has business interests in areas that involve mass gatherings and isolation.
context_section_description: The Marvel Cinematic Universe was first hit on March 12; the Marvel Studios film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which was shooting in Australia, suspended production due to director Destin Daniel Cretton self-isolating due to suspected coronavirus, though he later tested negative. The next day, despite several Disney films having their releases postponed in a company announcement, the May 1 superhero blockbuster Black Widow was initially not one of these. This omission was speculated to be because the other films are standalone, while moving Black Widow – the first film of Phase Four – would affect the development and distribution of the future Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Marvel Disney+ works, with Disney holding off on an early postponement announcement; Black Widow was finally postponed on March 17, when Disney also postponed its other May releases. It had earlier been speculated that Black Widow would be able to take Marvel's November release date planned for The Eternals, as Marvel had 'claimed' many future dates for blockbuster releases, which could save the film's prospects where smaller company releases may not. The replacement was later confirmed, with a domino effect causing each future Marvel film to be sequentially replaced. This also bumped Shang-Chi, with Marvel's first Asian hero, out of its Chinese New Year release date: it was due to be released in February 2021 but was displaced by Doctor Strange. However, given the film's early production shut-down, it may have missed its planned release date, anyway.
  The Marvel Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier suspended production in Prague, Czechia, where the series was set to film for a week. The series resumed production in Atlanta before global production was halted.
caption: Director Destin Daniel Cretton's self-isolation stopped production of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
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