IF YOU’RE A fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe—if you’ve stuck around all the way to this point—it’s fair to assume one thing: you probably want more. After The Infinity Saga—the first 22 movies in the franchise—came to a conclusion in Avengers: Endgame, the next era of Marvel storytelling took a slight delay after the release of Spider-Man: Far From Home because of the whole Covid-19 thing. But Marvel Studios got things back on track in 2021, continuing its pace until things came to a slowdown in 2024, when only one film was released. That pace won’t last for long, though.
The current era of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is referred to as “Phase 5,” and while the seeds of the overarching story are still being slowly planted and plotted, it’s clear that the multiverse is playing a big part of things, and it’s also clear that the Disney+ series will be 100% essential to the future of the franchise. After seeing how directly WandaVision led into Multiverse of Madness, how Loki led into Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and how clearly Ms. Marvel will lead into The Marvels, it’s certain that Marvel’s television arm is just as essential as its film arm.
We also know that Marvel Studios, and its fearless leader and President Kevin Feige, are extremely meticulous. There are the movies and shows we know about, that have been publicly announced, and then there are the movies and shows they’re working on, that will exist in the shadows and rumors only. One example: we all know the X-Men are coming to the MCU sooner or later. How, is anyone’s guess. But not a single mutant-centered project has yet been announced.
Anyway, that’s enough speculation. Here’s the complete list of upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe movies and TV shows—that we know of.
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Upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe Movies
Captain America: Brave New World (February 14, 2025)
Another movie we know is in the works will follow Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) as the new Captain America. The movie will be directed by Julius Onah (The Cloverfield Paradox, Luce), and will mark the return of Tim Blake Nelson as The Leader (someone we haven’t seen since 2008’s The Incredible Hulk) as well as the debut of Harrison Ford as Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross, taking over for the late William Hurt. And he will become the Red Hulk!
Perhaps this could also be a place for characters like Val and Walker to return before they become part of the Thunderbolts? We know we’ll be seeing Joaquin Torres (Danny Ramirez) returning, among others. A trailer recently dropped, and it looks like it’ll capture much of the exciting political/conspiracy thriller energy of movies like The Winter Soldier and Civil War.
Thunderbolts (July 25, 2025)
We finally got the official announcement for the Thunderbolts movie at SDCC 2022, and boy are we excited. Likely based on Kurt Busiek’s comic run of the ’90s, the movie was previously reported to be in the works by Variety, with director Jake Schreier—who’s done some interesting work on both TV and in film, most recently on Netflix’s excellent Beef—on board. And, as it turns out, Thunderbolts will be a full Beef reunion: the showrunner, Lee Sung Jin, also took control of the script.
This project just makes sense; Thunderbolts is basically Marvel’s altered of the Suicide Squad; villains who pose as heroes or do the sort of morally gray missions that heroes don’t want to. We know from her two appearances so far that Val (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is putting together a rugged team that will get into that gray area. At D23, we learned that the team will consist of John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Red Guardian (David Harbour), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), and Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko). All that being said, we do still expect Zemo (Daniel Brühl) to be a part of the movie in some capacity—perhaps as the villain?— with Abomination (Tim Roth) potentially in the mix as well. Nothing’s off limits here.
We’re waiting on a trailer soon.
The Fantastic Four (July 25, 2025)
WandaVision‘s Matt Shakman will be at the helm for The Fantastic Four, which will star Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as the titular quadruple. And the pressure’s on for Marvel to nail it.
Pascal shared an update to his Instagram, revealing that the production was about to be underway.
They’ll be joined in the cast by a number of stalwart actors, including Ralph Ineson as Galactus, along with the likes of Paul Walter Hauser, Natasha Lyonne, and John Malkovich in undisclosed roles.
The movie was previously set for a February 2025 release date, and now will instead drop on the May 2025 date that was previously earmarked for The Kang Dynasty. Does that mean Fantastic Four will now carry more ‘staple of the summer’ pressure? The April/May release is, historically, Marvel’s biggest ticket. So we’ll have to wait and see.
Blade (November 7, 2025)
Marvel’s big announcement at the end of San Diego Comic Con 2019 was that—eventually—Blade, the Vampire hunter, would be joining the MCU. And he would be played by two-time Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali. A very very big deal, and truly incredible casting.
Now, the movie is likely still a ways away—but it is coming. Marvel previously hired Watchmen writer Stacy Osei-Kuffour to write the script, and Bassam Tariq to direct, but both eventually fell off. The next director on board was Yann Demange, who has also since fallen off. The script has gone through lots of turmoil already, which we won’t get into too much here, but the last we heard is that Logan‘s Michael Green (who was behind last year’s fantastic Blue Eye Samurai on Netflix) is working on it, and it’s going to be an R-rated flick—which is vital. Things are looking cautiously optimistic. Can we get this movie made?
The cast has gone through some serious turmoil as well, and while some other names have been attached, the only one we know for sure to still be involved alongside Ali is MaXXXine star (and modern horror legend) Mia Goth—whose turns in Ti West’s X and Pearl and Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool seemed to initially land her what is likely a villain role here.
Avengers 5 (May 1, 2026)
For a while, this was called Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. But then Jonathan Majors got involved in some very major real-life trouble, and was fired from the MCU. Plans change, and they seem to have changed here.
We don’t know a ton, but reports have recently come up that Joe and Anthony Russo, who were behind the camera for Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame would be returning for both Avengers 5 and Avengers: Secret Wars. We’ll see!
Avengers: Secret Wars (May 7, 2027)
The second part of Marvel’s next huge, two-part Avengers extravaganza is Avengers: Secret Wars, which is the name of two notable comic runs. One, from the ’80s, was written by former Marvel EIC Jim Shooter and was largely a genius ploy to sell toys. The other, written in 2016 by writer Jonathan Hickman, is a multiversal epic that heavily features Fantastic Four characters like Reed Richards and Doctor Doom—it is imperative that Mr. Feige and company nail that F4 casting. Here’s to hoping.
This movie is now scheduled, as you can see, all the way out in May 2027. Will we even be alive in 2027? Is there anything we can predict about anything? Will we ever see the X-Men? Who—and I cannot reiterate this enough—the hell knows.
Armor Wars (2024? 2025?)
The MCU project centered on Jim Rhodes (Don Cheadle) was recently announced to be switching from a Disney+ series to a feature film—but we still don’t know when it’s coming out. A guess? Likely some time after Secret Invasion and before the next two-part Avengers saga; Secret Invasion seems to be setting up an evil government bureaucracy that the plot for Armor Wars—Stark Tech falling into the wrong hands—can feed off of.
Upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe TV Series
Agatha All Along (September 2024)
Agatha All Along s is shaping up to be a WandaVision sequel of sorts in many ways. Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha Harkness will be at the center of everything, while new cast members will include Aubrey Plaza and Heartstopper‘s Joe Locke. Residents of WandaVision‘s Westview, including That ’70s/’90s Show star Debra Jo Rupp, will return, and the story looks campy, weird, and fun.
Ironheart (2025? TBA)
The Ironheart Disney+ series will adapt a fun Marvel Comics storyline of the past years, which sees Riri Williams, a tech genius from Chicago, taking over Iron Man’s mantle. Dominique Thorne, who is 2/2 in great movies so far in her career (With Judas and the Black Messiah and If Beale Street Could Talk on her resume), will play Riri. We’d venture to guess that other old Iron Man friends—James Rhodes? Justin Hammer?—could show up.
Chinaka Hodge—a poet and educator who has written on Snowpiercer—will be the show’s head writer. The show completed filming a while ago, so we could conceivably find out about a release date at any time.
Daredevil: Born Again (2025)
Marvel made a lot of fans very happy when they announced at SDCC 2022 that the Daredevil hero and villain team of Charlie Cox (as Matt Murdock/Daredevil) and Vincent D’Onofrio (as Wilson Fisk/Kingpin) would be returning for a new series titled Daredevil: Born Again, likely based on the comic arc of the same name. They made those same fans even more excited when they announced that it would be 18 episodes long; it makes sense that Marvel is experimenting with format now a few years into the Disney+ era.
One problem, though—Marvel totally scrapped the first few episodes they produced, firing the writing and directing teams and starting over. Clearly, something wasn’t working. A new team is now in place, and they’re taking things from there.
We’ll see how it pays off.
Wonder-Man (TBD)
All we know about Marvel’s upcoming Wonder-Man series is that the titular character—aka Simon Williams, an actor—will be played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who you’ve likely seen in The Matrix Resurrections, Aquaman, Candyman, or his Emmy-winning role in HBO’s Watchmen. Wonder-Man is a character who in the Marvel Comics is strongly intertwined with both Wanda Maximoff and Vision, so there’s a reasonable chance that we could see Elizabeth Olsen and/or Paul Bettany in this series. Ben Kinglsey will also be returning as Trevor Slattery (from Iron Man 3 and Shang-Chi) and James Ponsoldt (The End of the Tour, Shrinking) will be directing.
Vision Quest (TBD)
Speaking of Paul Bettany, he will be getting his own WandaVision sequel series, titled Vision Quest. Based on how WandaVision concluded, we can take a leap and assume that this series will at least somewhat center on White Vision out in the world trying to regain his memories and become the hero he once was (or, you know, go live in some robot peace somewhere. It’s much deserved).
Wakanda Series (TBD)
We don’t know a ton about this one just yet. But it will come from Ryan Coogler, Danai Guria (who plays Okoye) will be involved, and it should fit in neatly with his two Black Panther movies, of course.
