Citadel
It has not been an excellent month for the Russo Brothers, the upcoming administrators of the brand new Avengers films, however a pair with fairly dangerous luck exterior of the MCU.
Their Netflix The Electrical State blockbuster debuted with shockingly poor critic scores (a 15% on RT) and doesn’t appear to be placing up the form of numbers that justify its $320 million finances, making it some of the costly movies ever made.
However now we will jump over to the present they produced for Amazon, Citadel, which you guessed it, had some of the costly first seasons of any present ever at a reported $225-300 million, which might be second solely to Amazon’s The Rings of Energy.
Citadel was purported to spawn a complete community of linked sequence, and whereas a number of of these did make it out and the unique acquired a season 2 renewal, The Hollywood Reporter now says that issues are “in flux.”
Citadel
At the moment, Citadel season 2, which was purported to be out in late 2025 has apparently been pushed to Spring 2026. In addition to that, all different Citadel spin-offs have been paused, perhaps till after season 2, perhaps indefinitely. Supposedly Amazon isn’t proud of season 2, although they haven’t commented on that report.
Whereas Citadel didn’t get completely shredded by critics like The Electrical State, the tip results of the Richard Madden/Priyanka Chopra spy sequence was that it was…tremendous. It had a coinflip 51% critic rating and an okay, not nice 62% viewers rating. Its spin-offs have been truly higher acquired, for essentially the most half.
However that’s the issue, you don’t actually need the second most-expensive present in historical past to be “tremendous.” Citadel didn’t attain the highs of different Amazon hits, cheaper productions that vary from Invincible to The Boys to Reacher. However its different big-budget sequence isn’t doing nice both, with Rings of Energy’s viewership reportedly lower in half for season 2. The level being, throwing cash at tasks isn’t essentially a golden ticket.
If Amazon is sad with season 2 of Citadel and season 1 was not all the nice to start with, this concept that the sequence goes to launch into some in style, sprawling spy universe for the service appears unsure. Not that it ever actually appeared destined to occur, however now greater than ever, it doesn’t look like it’s going to work out.
There was no less than one vibrant spot for the Russos this week, as even when it was oddly formatted and the casting was picked aside, the chair-based reveal of the Avengers: Doomsday solid was essentially the most watched Marvel livestream ever by far with 275 million views over the 5 hours. It’s nonetheless the case that regardless of these different endeavors, the Russos haven’t made a nasty MCU film but, and perhaps that’s the universe the place they merely have the magic contact. However exterior of that? Apparently not.
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