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The untitled Namor film is a potential American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Namor. Produced by Marvel Studios and to be distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it would be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

Development of a Namor film began in 1997, with Universal Pictures involved by 2001. Multiple writers and directors were attached through 2009, and Marvel Studios had the rights to use the character by 2014, with Universal holding the distribution rights. The character debuted in the MCU film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), portrayed by Tenoch Huerta.

Background and early work
Development of a film based on the Marvel Comics character Namor the Sub-Mariner began at Marvel Studios in April 1997, when Philip Kaufman was in talks to direct Namor: Sub-Mariner. Kaufman said the next month that the film would explore environmental issues between Namor and humans over ecological concerns. Sam Hamm was in talks to write the script by July 1999. Universal Pictures entered negotiations in June 2001 to gain the film rights of Namor, with Marvel Studios president Avi Arad and Kevin Misher set to produce the film, while a search for writers was underway. Arad felt it could explore environmental issues such as oil spills, underwater bomb testing, pollution, and global warming. Universal hired David Self as the writer in July 2002 for an intended release in 2004. Randall Frakes was revealed the following month to have worked on the script for Namor, the Sub-Mariner at Saban Entertainment.

Marvel Studios announced in October 2002 it had finalized a deal with Universal to produce the Sub-Mariner film after their work together on Hulk (2003). Arad called the film an "epic underwater tale of majestic fantasy", while Marvel said it would follow Namor's adventures as a prince from Atlantis, and described Namor as a "half-human/half-amphibian" and a "troubled rebel with a short temper" who helped humans and fought them over pollution. Stan Lee, Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige, and Self were set as executive producers, while Ari Arad was a co-producer. Marvel and Avi Arad entered negotiations for Chris Columbus to direct by July 2004. He signed on as director and producer of Sub-Mariner by that December, doing so through his production company 1492 Pictures, by which point the film was set for release in 2007. Columbus said in November 2005 that he was unlikely to make the film, and Universal and Marvel Studios hired Jonathan Mostow to write and direct The Sub-Mariner in September 2006. The film was set to follow Namor discovering he is a prince of Atlantis integral in a war between the modern surface world and Atlantis. Feige said the heart of the film's story would be "tempered" with Namor being stuck between both worlds. Mostow said The Sub-Mariner was still in active development in August 2009, explaining they were continuing work on the script and that Universal continually renewed the option to produce the property.

Marvel Entertainment's chief creative officer (CCO) Joe Quesada said in May 2012 that Marvel Studios held the film rights to Namor. Feige, who had since become the president of Marvel Studios, said in August 2013 that Universal still held the rights to Namor, with no plans then for the character to appear in Marvel Studios' Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) franchise as a result. Feige said in April 2014 that the film rights were a "little complicated," while The Hollywood Reporter Borys Kit reported the next month that Marvel held the Namor rights instead of Universal. Feige clarified the rights in July, explaining that Marvel could make a Namor film rather than Universal and Legendary Pictures as was rumored, but noted there were older contracts with other parties that would need to be negotiated out of before they could move forward with a film. Quesada reaffirmed in June 2016 that Marvel had rights to Namor. In February 2017, The Sub-Mariner was included in a production listing of projects in development, when the production was expected to take place in Hawaii. In April 2018, Feige reiterated the rights to Namor were complicated with Universal holding the distribution rights, and said in October that Namor could appear in the MCU, with Marvel Studios deciding if and when that could occur.

Marvel Cinematic Universe
Tenoch Huerta was cast to portray Namor in November 2020 for the MCU film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), in which the character is depicted as the king of Talokan, an ancient civilization of underwater dwelling people connected to the Mayans,  and is revealed to be a mutant as he is in the comics. Namor serves an antagonist role in the film, similar to some versions in the comics. Michael Waldron, the writer for the MCU film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), said Namor was considered for that film as a member of the Illuminati, which he was in the comics, but his inclusion was dropped because Marvel Studios had other plans for the character. In November 2022, Marvel Studios executive Nate Moore confirmed that they could not make a standalone Namor film since Universal still held the character's distribution rights, similar to the Hulk. In March 2023, Citigroup financial analyst Jason Bazinet felt Disney may try to include the distribution rights to Namor, along with Hulk, in any potential sale of the streaming service Hulu to Comcast, the owner of Universal Pictures through NBCUniversal.