Marvel Phase Five And Six: announcements and what to expect
Marvel fans rejoice!
For over a decade, Marvel Studios has annually revealed its future films at San Diego Comic-Con’s renowned Hall H. And Saturday’s Marvel Studios panel was no different. Kevin Feige set out to reveal to fans future plans for highly regarded MCU and the world went insane.
Here is what we learned about the current Phase Four and the upcoming Phase Five and Six:
Phase Four
She-Hulk: Attorney At Law will begin streaming on Disney+ August 17th starring Tatiana Maslany as Jennifer Walters (i.e. Bruce Banner’s cousin).
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will be released to theatres November 11th 2022 and will debut Namor ( played by Tenoch Huerta), as the kingdom of Wakanda reels after the death of T’Challa (the late Chadwick Boseman). The cast also includes Dominique Thorne (as Riri Williams), Michaela Coel (Aneka), Mabel Cadena (Namora) and Alex Livanalli (Attuma). T
The film will conclude Phase Four.
Phase Five:
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will be the first film in Phase Five and will be released to theatres February 17 2023. The movie will introduce Kang the Conqueror (played by Jonathan Majors and already seen on Loki Season 1), who meets Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) in the Quantum Realm after Scott is mysteriously sucked there along with his daughter Cassie Lang (Kathryn Newton), Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), and Janet van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer).
Secret Invasion still has no confirmed release date yet but will be released in Spring 2023. The film will see Samuel L. Jackson back as Nick Fury, alongside Ben Mendelsohn (the Skrull Talos), Don Cheadle (James Rhodes), and Martin Freeman (Everett K. Ross).
Guardians of The Galaxy: Vol. 3 has a release date of 23 May 2023, and is said to be a sort of “conclusion” to the Guardians Saga. The movie will see the return of Chris Pratt, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Sean Gunn, and Will Poulter.
Echo has also been announced and will be the first series in Phase Five. The series has been set to be released Summer 2023. The series sees Hawkeye antagonist Maya Lopez (played by Alaqua Cox) lead her own series.
Loki Season 2 will also be released in Summer 2023. The Disney+ series that introduced the multiverse to the MCU is currently filming and will (of course) see the return of the beloved Loki (played by Tom Hiddleston).
The gory vampire movie Blade starring Maharshala Ali will see a remake set to be released on November 3rd. No cast announcements have been made or confirmed.
Iron Heart has been set for release Fall 2023. Riri Williams (who debuted her character in Black Panther 2) is set to lead in her own series.
Agatha: Coven of Chaos has been announced to be released end of 2023. The beloved Agatha Harkness (played by Katheryn Hahn) will be returning with her own series. WandaVision head writer Jac Schaeffer will write and executive produce the show.
Daredevil: Born Again will debut Spring 2024. Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock is being finally being brought into the Marvel Studios fold with a Disney+ series that is getting an unprecedented 18-episode order for its first season. Cox’s Murdock first reappeared in 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, and his nemesis Kingpin (played by Vincent D’Onofrio) appeared as the big bad on 2021’s Hawkeye. Both characters are set to show up on Echo, and it appears that Daredevil will also appear on She-Hulk, before officially returning for the main event in this series.
Captain America: New World Order has been set for a release date of May 3rd 2024. In the ending of Falcon and Winter Solider we saw Sam Wilson (played by Anthony Mackie) become Captain America. The movie will showcase the aftermath of these events.
Thunderbolts has also been announced. The movie which is compared to DC’s Suicide Squad has been confirmed to be released July 25 2024. The anti-hero cast will be Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), Baron Zemo (Daniel Brühl), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), Abomination (Tim Roth), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), and Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko).
This will be the last project in Phase Five.
Phase Six
Phase Six of the MCU will begin with the highly anticipated Fantastic Four. The movie has been set for a release date of November 4 2024 with no official cast being announced yet.
Avengers: The Kang Dynasty will be the first Avenger movie in around 5 years and has a release date of May 2 2025. The now labeled Multiverse Saga (which spans from Phase Four to Six) will conclude with two Avengers movies. Given the title, it’s safe to presume that the movie will reveolve around Kang the Conqueror as the main villain of the Multiverse Saga.
Avengers: Secret Wars will he the conclusion of all the MCU projects following Avengers: Endgame. The movie has been highly speculated and has a set release date of November 7 2025.
