A24 Is Creating Its Own MCU With a Weird Twist

A24 Is Creating Its Own MCU – With a Weird Twist

From First Cow to Lamb, the popular indie film distribution company, A24, appears to be creating its own MCU of sorts but with a very big twist.

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A24 Is Creating Its Own MCU With a Weird Twist

A24 has distributed some of the most ambitiously unique independent films for the better part of the last decade, notably for telling stories that feel — at their core — human. With the upcoming release of Alex Garland’s Men, that human element of A24’s filmography raises some bizarre questions when looking back at the former resume. In examining the titles of the popular distribution company, let’s unfold what is clearly shaping up to A24’s very own MCU, only in this case, it stands for the Mammal Cinematic Universe.

When 20th Century Women rose to critical acclaim in 2016, no one would have ever had reason to be suspicious of Mike Mills’ wonderful little indie flick about female bonding in 1970s California, but that was just the beginning. Only one year later, A24 distributed The Killing of a Sacred Deer, the eerie cautionary tale from Yorgos Lanthimos, loosely based on the Greek tragedy of Iphigenia. Of course, the titular references to mammals — be them women or deer — still left no reason to raise any eyebrows. Yet, as A24 quietly released the 2019 documentary The Elephant Queen, the heartfelt tale following elephants in the African savannah, the indie distribution company was only preparing audiences for the herds of mammal-titled films that would storm the 2020s.

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Just before the COVID-19 pandemic had begun shutting theaters down in the Spring of 2020, A24 released Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, an endearing picture set in the 1820s about two Northwestern travelers and their prized mooing mammal. With attention toward quarantine content, A24 gained positive traction once First Cow dropped on VOD, but then the following year shook things up.

2021 saw the unimaginable release of Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb, the bizarre folk horror film about a humanoid lamb-child hybrid, making things real weird for the mammal category. Thanksgiving then proceeded to undergo A24’s The Humans, the Stephen Karam NYC-based family drama. Cows, lambs and humans alike — and all released within a short period of time — A24 is building to something here.

A24 Films will now trek forward with Men, the latest entry from Ex Machina director Alex Garland following a cryptic journey of a woman embarking to the English countryside after the death of her husband. Very little is known about the upcoming film, but with Men as the actual title, the mammal argument still holds water. The human mammals are expanding with Men, 20th Century Women, not to mention John Cameron Mitchell’s How to Talk to Girls at Parties. Meanwhile, animal-titled films are having their heyday too. Still not convinced? Perhaps A24 is planning a crossover with their non-mammal titles, such as The Lobster or Lady Bird. Whatever the distribution company is planning with these creatures, there’s clearly an endgame here. Look out, Marvel.

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