Upcoming Marvel movies: Every MCU movie & TV show in development
DisneyFrom Agatha’s show to the next Avengers films, we’ve listed all the upcoming Marvel movies and shows currently in development, their release dates, and what we can expect each project to be about.
From Fantastic Four: First Steps ushering in Marvel’s first family to Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars bringing together countless heroes, many new movies are coming.
Things are a little slower over on Disney+ as the MCU slows its roll to try and focus on quality over quantity, but a couple of superhero TV shows fill out the schedule.
Here’s what’s coming next in Phase 5 and Phase 6.
Upcoming Marvel TV shows
What If…? Season 3 (December 22, 2024)
Disney+What If…? Season 3 is the next big release on Disney+, arriving just before the end of the year. This’ll be the final season of Marvel’s multiverse series, and some big names are attached to make their return.
Specific episode plot details are still under wraps, but one thing we do know is that there’ll be a musical episode that takes place in 1930s.
Expect to hear the likes of Jeffrey Wright, Sebastian Stan, and David Harbour reprise their characters, and get ready for Shang-Chi Cowboy, too.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (January 29, 2025)
DisneyThe series was originally announced as ‘Spider-Man: Freshman Year’ during Disney+ Day 2023, alongside X-Men ’97.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man follows a young Peter Parker on his way to becoming Spider-Man. The animation style celebrates his comic book roots, and will take place in a world in which Norman Osborn was Peter’s mentor instead of Tony Stark.
We also know from some stills that Doctor Strange will appear in at least one episode.
Daredevil: Born Again (March 4, 2025)
Disney+The cull of Netflix’s once-canonical MCU shows still feels a bit raw, most of all in the case of Daredevil, starring Charlie Cox as Hell’s Kitchen’s Man Without Fear.
In Spider-Man: No Way Home, cinemas around the world erupted when Cox’s character made a brief cameo as Peter Parker’s lawyer. Soon after, a revived Daredevil series was announced.
Daredevil: Born Again will see Cox return alongside Vincent D’Onofrio as Kingpin, and it’ll be 18 episodes long.
Ironheart (June 24, 2025)
MarvelThe death of Tony Stark continues to ripple across the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ironheart – first created by Brian Michael Bendis and artist Mike Deodato – will follow Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams, a teen genius who invents the most advanced high-tech suit of armor since Iron Man.
The series will see Dominique Thorne return to play Riri once again, and will also include the likes of Anthony Ramos as Parker Robbins, aka The Hood.
Oh, and Sacha Baron Cohen has been cast in an undisclosed role, with many assuming that he’ll be bringing Mephisto to the screen.
Eyes of Wakanda (August 6, 2025)
Marvel StudiosEyes of Wakanda is an upcoming Disney+ series. The synopsis reads, “Throughout Wakandan history, brave warriors have been tasked to travel the world retrieving dangerous vibranium artifacts. This is their story.”
The show will be animated and feature Danai Gurira as Okoye, who we’ve seen and loved in the Black Panther movies. Eyes of Wakanda is being described as a kind of origin story for her and some other Dora Milaje warriors.
Marvel Zombies (October 2025)
Disney+In What If…? Season 1 Episode 5, Hank Pym inadvertently causes a zombie apocalypse in his efforts to rescue Janet Van Dyne, after being infected with a quantum virus. It ended with Peter Parker, Scott Lang, and T’Challa heading to Wakanda, unaware that it had been conquered by a zombified Thanos wielding the Infinity Gauntlet.
During Disney+ Day 2023, a Marvel Zombies series was announced. Written by Zeb Wells and directed by Bryan Andrews, the miniseries will be the first Marvel show to boast a TV-MA rating.
Expect to see the world from What If…? Season 1 expanded upon, with lots of gristly situations for surviving heroes to contend with.
Wonder Man (December 2025)
MarvelShang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton is teaming up with Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Community’s Andrew Guest to bring one of Marvel’s oldest characters to the small screen.
Wonder Man – real name Simon Williams – was originally introduced in the comics in 1964 as an industrialist rival to Tony Stark who gained “iconic energy” powers from Baron Zemo. While he fought the Avengers several times, he eventually joined the team and founded its West Coast division.
The character also has strong ties to Vision and Scarlet Witch, but it’s unclear whether he will play a significant part in the trajectory of the franchise. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II will play the titular hero.
Untitled Vision series (2026)
Disney+That’s right, Vision is getting his very own series on Disney+. Following the success of WandaVision, Paul Bettany is set to return for more in 2026.
Though exactly when this show takes place, be it before or after the events of WandaVision, remains to be seen.
Star Trek: Picard producer Terry Matalas has been recruited as showrunner, though little else is known about the project at this time.
Untitled Nova project (TBA)
Marvel ComicsMarvel is developing a Nova show with Moon Knight writer Sabir Pirzada. No cast has been announced, but Marvel’s head of streaming, animation, and television Brad Winderbaum confirmed it’s still being developed in March 2024.
“We have a new system behind the scenes at Marvel Studios,” Winderbaum told Phase Zero.
“We’re more like a traditional studio now. We’re developing more than we actually will produce. There are plans to develop Nova. I love Nova, too. I love Rich Rider – I hope it gets to the screen. The world is always chaos. There’s always things. You gotta conjure these things to make them happen but I would love to see a Nova show, one day.”
Many fans expect the series will follow the origin of Richard Rider’s Nova, a New York teenager given a cosmic helmet and uniform by a dying member of the Nova Corps, an intergalactic military force earlier seen in both Guardians of the Galaxy films.
Upcoming Marvel movies
Captain America: Brave New World (February 14, 2025)
At the end of Avengers: Endgame, an elderly Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) passed on the shield to Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie). In Falcon and the Winter Soldier, we saw him wrestle with the reality of taking on the mantle, before eventually suiting up and taking to the skies. Captain America: Brave New World is the first feature-length Cap movie without Evans.
Brave New World follows Sam as he adapts to being the new Captain America after publicly announcing himself at the end of his Disney+ series.
The Cloverfield Paradox’s Julius Onah is directing, and we’ll get our first look at Harrison Ford’s General Ross, as seen in the trailer. Danny Ramirez and Carl Lumbly also reprise their roles from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as Joaquin Torres and Isiah Bradley.
Thunderbolts (May 2, 2025)
DisneyThe Suicide Squad (the James Gunn one, not the other one) is one of the DCEU’s best movies. Now, Marvel has its own anti-hero team-up movie called Thunderbolts, with Paper Towns filmmaker Jake Schreier set to direct and Black Widow’s Eric Pearson penning the script.
Marvel’s Thunderbolts should have a different flavor from the rest of the MCU, thanks to the lineup: Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova/Black Widow, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Olga Kurylenko as Antonia Dreykov/Taskmaster, Wyatt Russell as John Walker/US Agent, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier, Hannah John-Kamen as Ava Starr/Ghost, and David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian.
Valentina is putting together the team, likely to run black ops that the government can’t ask more on-the-books heroes to do.
Fantastic Four: First Steps (July 25, 2025)
DisneyThe Fantastic Four has been a source of speculation ever since Disney acquired 20th Century Fox. They’ve ventured onto the big screen before, most recently in Josh Trank’s disastrous 2015 reboot. Don’t bet on Miles Teller returning as Mr. Fantastic.
First Steps was confirmed in early 2024. Pedro Pascal leads as Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby joins him as Sue Storm, Joseph Quinn heats things up as Johnny Storm, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach clobbers as Ben Grimm, The Thing. Additionally, Ralph Ineson has been cast as the big bad Galactus.
Avengers: Doomsday (May 1, 2026)
Avengers 5, originally The Kang Dynasty, was meant to revolve around the titular villain: Kang the Conqueror, who appeared in Ant-Man 3 after his debut as He Who Remains in Loki. However, with Jonathan Majors now out of the role due to being found guilty of assault, things have changed.
Doctor Doom is now the antagonist, and Robert Downey Jr. is playing him. That’s right, Tony Stark is dead, but Victor Von Doom is far from it.
Doomsday will likely lead straight into Secret Wars and will feature a big lineup of characters. The Fantastic Four are confirmed to appear in both.
Spider-Man 4 (July 24, 2026)
Sony PicturesSpider-Man: No Way Home was the perfect conclusion to the Homecoming trilogy. Not only did it bring back Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire’s wall-crawlers along with their villains, but it left Tom Holland’s hero where he belongs: living alone in New York, struggling to pay rent, anonymously swinging through the city. It was a clean slate.
Spider-Man 4 was soon confirmed to be in development, but with few announcements, it was starting to look like this version of Peter Parker’s story might have come to an end.
Then, in late 2024, the release date was finally confirmed. In October 2024, Tom Holland said [via Good Morning America]: “All I can tell you is that it’s happening. We are super close to having a creative, I think that is really worthy of the fans, but I think now we feel confident that the idea is strong enough that we can finally say that this is going ahead.”
Avengers: Secret Wars (May 7, 2027)
Avengers: Secret Wars will conclude one of the MCU’s biggest double whammies, set to come a year after Doomsday hits cinemas. It’d be sensible to expect an Infinity War-style cliffhanger in Doomsday to lead us into it.
The Russos are back to direct both Avengers 5 and 6.
Blade (TBA)
Marvel Studios, Reddit: iMizuriiWesley Snipes last appeared as Marvel’s fan-favorite Daywalker in Blade: Trinity. The MCU was set to introduce its version of the vampire hunter with Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali, first heard in the post-credits scene of Eternals as Dane Whitman (Kit Harrington) looks at the Ebony Blade.
However, a revolving door of rewrites and directors has led to delays. In October 2024, it was announced that Blade had been removed from its November 2025 release date, and has now been indefinitely delayed.
Shang-Chi 2 (TBA)
Marvel StudiosShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings brought martial arts to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Late last year, it was announced that Destin Daniel Cretton had entered into a multi-year deal with Disney, which will see him return to write and direct Shang-Chi 2. There’s no release date at the time of writing.
Simu Liu and Awkwafina are both expected to return, as well as Meng’er Zhang as Shang-Chi’s sister. The first film’s post-credits scene teased some tangling with the Avengers down the line, but it’s unclear what will await the characters in the sequel.
Kevin Feige told ComicBook.com: “We certainly have many ideas of where to take them and where to put them. What’s so fun, we know the movie’s working when it’s not just the title character that people ask about, but it is the co-stars or the supporting players that people ask about.
“And in this movie in particular, that’s heartening because we think they’re spectacular, and we think they have great potential in the future.”
Armor Wars (TBA)
Marvel StudiosDevelopment on Armor Wars dates back as far as 2011 when Don Cheadle announced that work had begun on a War Machine movie. Nearly 10 years later, Kevin Feige announced an Armor Wars series on Disney+, with Cheadle returning as Rhodey.
Marvel earlier described the show as a “classic Marvel story about Tony Stark’s worst fear coming true: what happens when his tech falls into the wrong hands?” Then in 2022, it was announced that the project is transforming into a feature-length film.
Since then, there’s been almost no updates. In October 2024, Cheadle even said [via TVLine]: “I don’t know, I’m not sure where anything is right now. I think things are going through a lot of changes, and we’ll see what happens, we’ll see what it is.”
Those are the confirmed upcoming Marvel movies and shows. For more, check out our lists of the best supervillains, Marvel movies ranked, or best superhero movies.