Inhumans: Marvel's answer to the X-Men will no longer be part of Phase Three

The film no longer has a release date

For those who aren’t superhero fans, working out which studio owns which franchise can be quite confusing.

While DC fans have it easy, Marvel fans are split four ways: Marvel Studios own The Avengers, Fox has the rights to X-Men and Fantastic Four, Sony has the rights to Spider-Man (although, they now have an agreement with Marvel Studios), and Universal has The Hulk (they too have an agreement with Marvel Studios). In other words, Fox and Marvel Studios are the big players in the live-Marvel superhero film business.

Marvel Studios have a problem, though: the X-Men play a huge part in the comic book universe, making up dozens of classic characters, such as Wolverine, Magneto, Mystique, Jean Grey and Cyclops. That’s dozens of superpowered mutants they’re unable to use in their own Cinematic Universe.

Their answer: Inhumans. Basically, Inhumans are Mutants except - instead of being born with superpowers - they are humans who gain special powers when exposed to Terrigen mists. Long story short, Inhumans and Terrigen have begun to play an integral role in Marvel’s TV universe, particularly in Agents of SHIELD.

However, before the Inhumans entered the universe via the TV show, there was already an Inhumans movie announced, a film that would accordingly tie-up Phase Three after Avengers: Infinity War.

Earlier this year, Marvel president Kevin Feige announced the film would not be delivered on time. He has now confirmed it will no longer be part of Phase Three.

"The only situation right now is that it's not going to be part of Phase Three, because Phase Three increased in a very good way since we originally announced it," Feige told Empire. After the original line-up of films was announced, both Spider-Man: Homecoming and Ant-Man and The Wasp were added.

"When and where and how it pops up remains to be seen, but it's characters we love, it's a storyline we love, and we just didn't want to cram it into an already quite full Phase Three."

There you have it: Marvel’s answer to the X-Men won’t reach out screens until sometime way in the cute, but it’s definitely still happening.

In other Marvel news, it was recently revealed that the villain in Iron Man 3 was meant to be a woman, yet the character got axed because a female toy wouldn’t sell.