As of now, it doesn't look like a Namor solo movie is on the cards for the future. Namor was introduced in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and may be the first mutant in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's main timeline. The plot of the movie centers around the aftermath of King T'Challa's death, which has left Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M'Baku, Okoye, and the Dora Milaje striving to safeguard their country from intervening world powers. The mutant sub-mariner is featured as the film's antagonist. Unfortunately, legal issues have prevented Namor from making a solo film.

When you're a producer on a movie as successful as Black Panther, you're understandably going to be asked about what's coming next. So when Nate Moore was recently asked about the possibility of a Namor solo movie as part of the MCU, he was open and honest about the legal issues that are currently standing in its way.

In an interview with TheWrap, Moore stated, "It honestly affects us more, and not to talk too much out of school, but in how we market the film than it does how we use him in the film."

Moore added, "There weren't really things we couldn't do from a character perspective for him, which is good because clearly, we took a ton of inspiration from the source material, but we also made some big changes to really anchor him in that world in a truth that publishing never really landed on, I would argue, in a big way."

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Marvel faced bankruptcy in the 1990s, so it adopted a policy of selling the rights to Marvel characters to other studios. That deal is still in effect, so Marvel can't make a Namor movie without Universal's blessing. This also explains why the MCU has no Hulk films other than The Incredible Hulk. The most well-known example is that Sony still holds the rights to Spider-Man and various Spider-Man-related characters, including Venom.

The bottom line is that the legal issues surrounding Namor are just too complex for Marvel Studios to navigate now. There are too many cooks in the kitchen, so to say, and it would take a lot of work to get everyone on the same page. That said, it's not impossible to see a Namor solo film down the line. If the legal issues can be ironed out, and if Marvel Studios feels like it's a story worth telling, then we could see Namor on the big screen at some point.