Marvel Studios took a breather in 2024, releasing just one main movie (Deadpool & Wolverine) and a few live-action TV collection (Agatha All Alongside, Echo). However the Marvel Cinematic Universe is about to make a thunderous return in 2025. A whopping 9 MCU function movies and TV collection are slated to reach in film theaters and on Disney Plus this yr.
Imagine it or not, that’s the calm earlier than the storm. As introduced at San Diego Comedian-Con 2024, Marvel has two retooled, newly Kang-less Avengers movies coming within the subsequent few years, which can see Robert Downey, Jr. starring in MCU motion pictures once more — however in a really totally different position, because the villainous Physician Doom.
Disney CEO Bob Iger laid out a plan to scale back Marvel Studios’ output and concentrate on high quality, however that doesn’t appear to be affecting the numbers simply but. Marvel continues to be dedicated to massive super-team tentpoles, extra Spider-Man motion pictures, and getting some contemporary blood into the MCU with characters like Marvel Man.
Marvel Studios’ present plans stretch out till at the very least the center of 2027. From the introduction of the Improbable 4 to the return of Daredevil in his first official MCU TV collection, right here’s each deliberate future Marvel Cinematic Universe film and Disney Plus present.
After taking her opening bow in Black Panther: Wakanda Ceaselessly, Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) will get her personal collection with Ironheart. The character is a superb younger engineer who makes her personal energy swimsuit, very like Iron Man’s, after reverse-engineering a few of Tony Stark’s tech. Going through off in opposition to Riri will probably be The Hood (Anthony Ramos), a extra magic-based villain. Rounding out the forged are Lyric Ross, Alden Ehrenreich, Regan Aliyah, Manny Montana, Matthew Elam, and Anji White.
The Improbable 4: First Steps: July 25
The MCU’s Section 6 begins with essentially the most hotly anticipated Marvel Studios debut this facet of the X-Males, The Improbable 4: First Steps. The fourth time is hopefully the allure for Marvel’s First Household, who’ve lengthy suffered from lackluster cinematic variations. Spider-Man: No Manner House’s Jon Watts was initially set to direct, however after his departure, WandaVision and It’s At all times Sunny in Philadelphia director Matt Shakman stepped into the position.
The Final of Us’ Pedro Pascal will lead the forged because the stretchy Mister Improbable; Vanessa Kirby (Mission Inconceivable: Fallout) would be the force-field-manifesting Invisible Lady; Joseph Quinn (Stranger Issues) stars because the Human Torch; and The Bear’s Ebon Moss-Bachrach will embody the Factor. Becoming a member of our heroes are Ralph Ineson as Galactus, Julia Garner as Shalla-Bal, Natasha Lyonne, and John Malkovich.
Initially pitched as an origin story collection for Danai Gurira’s Okoye, chief of the Dora Milaje, Eyes of Wakanda is an animated collection following the historical past of Wakanda, as seen via the eyes of warriors tasked with safeguarding the nation’s miraculous metallic, vibranium. Gurira is hooked up to reprise her position. That is the primary TV collection within the MCU’s Section 6 rollout.
Marvel’s Zombies alternate actuality — beforehand explored in an episode of What If…? in season 1 and based mostly on the 2005 Robert Kirkman comedian — will get a four-episode miniseries in 2025, simply in time for Halloween. Marvel Zombies will function a bunch of Section 4 heroes, like Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel, Kate Bishop/Hawkeye, and Shang-Chi, keeping off zombified variations of the Avengers… and perhaps even zombie Thanos.
Marvel is giving its Avenger-turned-Hollywood stuntman Simon Williams his personal TV collection for Disney Plus, and in response to Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige, Marvel Man will probably be “extraordinarily totally different from something we’ve executed earlier than.” Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Aquaman, Watchmen) will play Williams (aka Marvel Man) within the 10-episode collection. Ben Kingsley will probably be again as Trevor Slattery, his character from Iron Man 3 and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. They’ll be joined by Ed Harris, Lauren Glazier, and Demetrius Grosse.
Spider-Man: Model New Day: July 31
Sony and Marvel Studios’ follow-up to 2021’s Spider-Man: No Manner House will carry star Tom Holland again to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for a brand new sort of journey. Once we final noticed Holland’s Peter Parker, all reminiscences of Spider-Man’s secret id had been wiped from the general public consciousness. Model New Day will give Spider-Man “a contemporary begin,” in response to Holland. The fourth MCU Spider-Man film is being helmed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton. Stranger Issues and The Whale star Sadie Sink is reportedly a part of the forged.
The thought for Spider-Man 4 “is loopy,” Holland teased in an look on Good Morning America in 2024. “It’s slightly totally different to something we’ve executed earlier than, however I feel the followers are gonna actually reply to it.” Primarily based on its launch date, Model New Day was seemingly set to happen after the occasions of Avengers: Doomsday — however that film has since been delayed to…
Avengers: Doomsday: Dec. 18
In 2026, Marvel Studios will return to its most profitable sub-franchise, and in addition to the technique that noticed it shut out Section 3 with a pair of Avengers motion pictures, Infinity Battle and Endgame. Introduced as Avengers: The Kang Dynasty in 2022, the film has undergone a giant shift. It’s now Avengers: Doomsday, and MCU veteran Robert Downey, Jr. will tackle the position of Physician Doom, with Joe and Anthony Russo additionally returning to direct.
As revealed in an epically lengthy Marvel Studios livestream, the casts of Captain America: Courageous New World, Thunderbolts*, Improbable 4: First Steps, and a bunch of Fox-era X-Males motion pictures may even seem in Avengers: Doomsday. Presumably, a few of these will survive via to the sequel, Avengers: Secret Wars.
It’s lengthy been rumored that Marvel would give Paul Bettany’s Imaginative and prescient his personal post-WandaVision spinoff, this one specializing in the duplicate White Imaginative and prescient who battled the unique Imaginative and prescient within the finale of that collection. (Nicely, Wanda’s resurrected Imaginative and prescient… look, it’s slightly difficult.) Star Trek: Picard’s Terry Matalas is now reported to be showrunner on the collection (generally known as Imaginative and prescient Quest), which is slated for a debut a while in 2026.
Daredevil: Born Once more season 2: Undated
The second season of Marvel’s Daredevil collection for Disney Plus is claimed to reach in early-t0-mid 2026, in response to head of Marvel Tv Brad Winderbaum. The eight-episode season 2 of Daredevil: Born Once more will (as soon as once more) star Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil, Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Web page, Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson, Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk, and Jon Bernthal as Frank Citadel/Punisher. Matthew Lillard and Lili Taylor are reportedly becoming a member of the forged for season 2.
Avengers: Secret Wars: Dec. 17
Delayed to 2027, Avengers: Secret Wars will shut out Section 6 and finish what Marvel is now calling the Multiverse Saga, the way in which Avengers: Endgame concluded the Infinity Saga. Once more, the casts of Marvel’s different movies will reappear in Secret Wars, and confirmed Avengers administrators the Russo brothers will helm this one. however the title refers to a cosmic comics crossover occasion about collapsing multiverses that might even herald a full reboot of the MCU.
Introduced, however no launch date
For the darker facet of what occurs when Iron Man tech falls into the improper palms, Don Cheadle will return as Battle Machine in a movie based mostly on Marvel Comics’ Armor Wars. There’s no launch date for the film but — Armor Wars was initially meant to be a Disney Plus collection, however graduated to a function movie. However with a reputation like Armor Wars, it looks like a secure guess that Dominique Thorne’s Ironheart may even be concerned.
Whereas not formally introduced by execs like Kevin Feige or Bob Iger, Marvel promised on the finish of Black Panther: Wakanda Ceaselessly that “Black Panther will return.” Oh, additionally Denzel Washington says he’s going to be within the subsequent Black Panther film, and that Black Panther director Ryan Coogler is writing a component only for him. Who’re we to doubt Denzel, or the power of the Black Panther franchise, which has already made billions for Marvel Studios?
Marvel has a variety of post-credits guarantees to make good on, however it appears fairly secure to say that we’ll see Black Panther in theaters earlier than another introduced initiatives. Like, uh…
Initially slated for 2023, the brand new Blade film has suffered repeated delays. Following Wesley Snipes’ incarnation of the vampire hunter will probably be no imply feat, however Marvel couldn’t have recruited a greater actor to do it: the sensible Mahershala Ali. However the manufacturing has been fraught with manufacturing issues and personnel modifications: administrators Bassam Tariq and Yann Demange have been each beforehand hooked up however dropped out, and a number of writers have come and gone.
Blade was beforehand booked for a Nov. 7, 2025 launch in theaters, however has since been faraway from Disney’s schedule. New stories point out that Marvel has paused manufacturing on Blade, so it’s unclear if this daywalker will ever see the sunshine of day. Perhaps Blade’s declare in Deadpool & Wolverine was proper!
Bringing Nova, a member of the intergalactic Nova Corps, to stay motion has been a long-simmering effort at Marvel Studios. In 2018, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige named Nova as having “fast potential” for a standalone venture. Extra not too long ago, Marvel Studios head of streaming, tv, and animation Brad Winderbaum stated {that a} Nova venture was in “actually early growth” — couching that affirmation to say that Marvel Studios is now “growing greater than we really will produce.”
However whether or not Nova will really occur is unsure. Felony Minds showrunner Ed Bernero reportedly joined the Disney Plus collection as a author and showrunner in December 2024. However in February 2025, Deadline reported that Nova and two different in-the-works Marvel exhibits, Unusual Academy and Terror, Inc., had been placed on maintain.
A sequel to 2021’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is in growth at Marvel Studios, with little recognized about it to date, aside from that Simu Liu will return within the title position. Liu is about to return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe first with Avengers: Doomsday.