New Marvel Trailer Celebrates Love of Movies and Discloses Upcoming Titles
Marvel loves its movies, and wants you to as well, judging by the new trailer it released Monday.
Using a voiceover recorded by the late Stan Lee, the “Marvel Celebrates the Movies” trailer revealed the first footage from Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao’s Eternals, featuring Angelina Jolie, as well as clips from other upcoming superhero movies.
Eternals, featuring Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie, Gemma Chan, Richard Madden and a totally ripped Kumail Nanjiani, will be what Kevin Feige calls “very bold and very ambitious sprawling 7,000-year story of humanity and our place in the cosmos.”
The trailer seems designed to tempt moviegoers back into the multiplex as theaters continue to reopen after a year plus of sitting nearly or completely empty. The first entry in Phase 4’s ten-movie lineup is the long-delayed Black Widow, in which Scarlett Johansson’s recently departed Natasha Romanoff flashes back to the time she passes the baton to Florence Pugh’s Yelena Bolova.
Black Widow is followed by the all-new adventure Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which will be going the theatrical route only (at far as we know) when it premieres on September 3rd, as will the rest the company’s fourth phase.
As Marvel’s post-Eternals adventures are still in various states of production, as the video continues there isn’t quite so much new video footage. The video instead serves as a ‘save-the-date’ so moviegoers can plan their movie-going excursions: Spider-Man: No Way Home arrives on December 17th, followed by Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness on March 25th, 2022 and Thor: Love and Thunder on May 6th, 2022.
Titles for upcoming releases were dropped in the trailer for the first time as well. the studio is now ready to move forward with the Black Panther series, using King T’Challa’s signature salutation as the title for Coogler’s sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which premieres July 8th, 2022. As previously announced, the late Chadwick Boseman’s role will not be recast.
The title of the second Captain Marvel movie indicates that it will feature more than one powerful woman. The sequel will be known as The Marvels when it slams into theaters on November 11th, 2022. Directed by Candyman‘s Nia DaCosta, the film is expected to re-team Brie Larson’s super-heroine with Teyonah Parris’s grown-up Monica Rambeau (aka Photon) who we met in WandaVision. Iman Vellani is also expected to appear as Ms. Marvel, whose own streaming series premieres later this year.
Looking even further into the future, Ant-Man: Quantumania hits theaters on February 17th, 2023 and the third Guardians of the Galaxy feature premieres on May 5th, 2023.
Keep watching, and you’ll see the distinctive blue “4” appear behind the Marvel logo, an indication that the Fantastic Four will have yet another chance to try to make a good movie, this time as part of the MCU.