Marvel SDCC Panel Spells Out Phase 5 and 6 With Release Dates, Titles For Film And TV Projects
Marvel’s panel at San Diego Comic Con Saturday was only 90 minutes, but they managed to pack a lot into a time frame shorter than most of their movies.
The studio offered new trailers for shows and its sole remaining Phase 4 movie coming this year, and laid out its Phase 5 and 6 film schedule, and announced new shows. Here are some of the highlights.
Phase 4 will conclude with Wakanda Forever, coming out November 11th in the US. Director Ryan Coogler used the panel to celebrate the late Chadwick Boseman, who originated the role of T’Challa in the first Black Panther movie.
“It’s going to be hard to follow that up, but we’ll try,” Coogler said. “It’s been five years since I was here. I sat about there and we premiered the first footage from Black Panther 1, and sitting next to me was our T’Challa, the late great Chadwick Boseman.”
Coogler shared that Boseman was squeezing the director’s shoulder while watching the first footage. “I promise you, I can feel his hand on me right now,” Coogler said.
The final Marvel television program for Phase 4 is the She-Hulk series, premiering next month on Disney+ As for Marvel Phase 5, it kicks off with Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, opening February 17th, 2023. This film will feature a grown-up Cassie Lang, played by Kathryn Newton, and the bad guys are Jonathan Majors returning as Kang the Conqueror and MODOK (but not the animated version.)
Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige told the panel today that Phase 1-3 of the MCU is called the Infinity Saga, and we now know that Phase 4-6 is called The Multiverse Saga. Here’s a list of the upcoming titles and release dates.
- Secret Invasion – Spring 2023 (On Disney+)
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 – May 5, 2023 (In theaters)
- Loki Season 2 – Summer 2023 (On Disney+)
- Echo – Summer 2023 (On Disney+)
- The Marvels – July 28th, 2023 (In Theaters)
- Blade – November 3rd, 2023 (In theaters)
- Ironheart – Fall, 2023 (On Disney+)
- Agatha: Coven of Chaos – Winter 2023/2024 (On Disney+)
- Captain America: New World Order – May 3rd, 2024 (In theaters)
- Daredevil: Born Again – Spring 2024 (On Disney+)
- Thunderbolts – July 26th, 2024 (In theaters)
- Fantastic Four – November 8th, 2024 (in theaters)
- Avengers: The Kang Dynasty – May 2nd, 2025
- Avengers: Secret Wars – November 7th, 2025
Secret Invasion brings Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) together to fight the shapeshifting Skrulls who landed on Earth back in Captain Marvel. Also starring are Olivia Colman, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Emilia Clarke, Regé-Jean Page, and Christopher McDonald, with Martin Freeman making an appearance as his character from Black Panther, Everett K. Ross.
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 will introduce new characters like Adam Warlock (Will Poulter) and the High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji) to audiences, and will delve into Rocket Raccoon’s history.
Loki season 2 will pick up in the aftermath of Sylvie wrecking the Sacred Timeline, and Echo is a a deaf Native American martial artist who can perfectly replicate a person’s moves. In the comics, she mixed it up with the likes of Daredevil, Blade and the Avengers (including Clint Barton/Hawkeye). It’s already been announced that Daredevil and Kingpin will square off in that series.
The Marvels unites Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) with Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau (last seen in WandaVision) and Kamala Khan as Ms. Marvel in an adventure that also features Nick Fury.
Blade brings Mahershala Ali back to the Marvel fold, this time as the title vampire-hunting character. The Ironheart series features Riri Williams who is inspired by Iron Man to build her own armored super-suit and fight crime. Her character will first be seen in Wakanda Forever, in her own series.
The upcoming Agatha Harkness series will now be called Agatha: Coven of Chaos. Star Kathryn Hahn will return along with WandaVision director Jac Schaefer. And Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio will reprise their roles as Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk in their own series, Daredevil: Born Again.
Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) wields the shield for the first time in Captain America: New World Order, and Marvel Phase 5 ends with Thunderbolts, a new team of heroes in the MCU.
Created by writer Kurt Busiek and artist Mark Bagley, the Thunderbolts made their comic debut in a 1997 issue of The Incredible Hulk, before being launched into their own series later that year. They were thought to be a team of heroes who took over after the Avengers were declared dead, but were later revealed to be a supervillain team in disguise. It’s been posited that characters like Baron Zemo (Daniel Bruhl), Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), Abomination (Tim Roth), John Walker (Wyatt Russell) and Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko) could turn up as Thunderbolts. Even Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) or Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) would be canon if they are in the cast.
That brings us to Phase 6. That chapter of the MCU will include the new Fantastic Four movie, and not one, but two Avengers films: Kang Dynasty and the ominously named Secret Wars, a major event from Marvel’s comics that reshaped the entire multiverse.
Several trailers were shown to Comic Con attendees, and should be released to everyone soon.