The Marvel Cinematic Universe has never been more unpredictable. After a handful of duds, including The Marvels, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and Captain America: Brave New World, Marvel Studios is rethinking how it rolls out new movies and TV shows. While Marvel is riding high on the success of billion-dollar movies like Deadpool & Wolverine and Spider-Man: Brand New Day, it’s slowed its release pace considerably in recent years.
In 2026, Marvel hopes to get its reliable blockbuster franchises back on track with the release of Avengers: Doomsday. After that, the studio has just one movie on the books for 2027: Avengers: Secret Wars, an event film that’s expected to be something of a soft reset for the MCU.
In 2023, Disney CEO Bob Iger laid out a plan to reduce Marvel Studios’ output and focus on quality, and that mandate is evident in Marvel’s upcoming theatrical slate. In fact, there’s just one Marvel Studios movie slated to hit theaters in 2027: Avengers: Secret Wars. After that, things get pretty interesting, as Marvel Studios attempts a handful of sequels, reboots, and new superhero introductions in 2028.
Marvel Studios’ currently announced plans stretch out through 2029, when it plans to release a still unannounced movie. Here’s every planned future Marvel Cinematic Universe movie and Disney Plus show currently announced and rumored to be in the works.
2026 Marvel Studios releases
VisionQuest
Release date: Oct. 14, on Disney Plus
Marvel is giving Paul Bettany’s Vision his own post-WandaVision spinoff show, focusing on the duplicate White Vision who battled the original Vision in the finale of that series. (Well, Wanda’s resurrected Vision… look, it’s a little complicated.) Star Trek: Picard’s Terry Matalas serves as showrunner on the series, which is slated for a debut on Disney Plus in October.
Joining Bettany in VisionQuest are James Spader, who returns as Ultron; Todd Stashwick as the bounty hunter Paladin; and Ruaridh Mollica as Tommy Maximoff/Thomas Shepherd/Speed, the son of Wanda Maximoff in a new body. Again, it’s a little complicated! Faran Tahir reprises his role as Raza from the original Iron Man. There’s also going to be a ton of robot/AI people in VisionQuest, including T’Nia Miller as Jocasta, Emily Hampshire as EDITH, Orla Brady as FRIDAY, Henry Lewis as DUM-E, Jonathan Sayer as U, and James D’Arcy as JARVIS.
Avengers: Doomsday
Release date: Dec. 18, in movie theaters
In 2026, Marvel Studios will return to its most successful sub-franchise, and also to the strategy that saw it close out Phase 3 with a pair of Avengers movies, Infinity War and Endgame. Originally announced as Avengers: The Kang Dynasty in 2022, the movie has undergone a big shift. It’s now Avengers: Doomsday, and MCU veteran Robert Downey, Jr. will take on the role of Doctor Doom, with Joe and Anthony Russo also returning to direct what they’re calling a direct sequel to Endgame.
As revealed in an epically long Marvel Studios livestream, the casts of Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts*, Fantastic Four: First Steps, and a bunch of Fox-era X-Men movies will also appear in Avengers: Doomsday. In a series of teaser trailers, Marvel has also confirmed Chris Evans’ return to the MCU as Steve Rogers and Chris Hemsworth as Thor.
Prior to Avengers: Doomsday’s release in December, Marvel plans to rerelease Avengers: Endgame in movie theaters. That movie’s encore theatrical run arrives on Sept. 25 and includes four minutes of new footage.
2027 Marvel Studios releases
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man season 2
Release date: January 2027, on Disney Plus
The second season of animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, featuring the further adventures of a (non-MCU) Peter Parker and alter-ego Spider-Man, is coming in early 2027.
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Release date: June 18, 2027
Sony Pictures Animation’s Miles Morales trilogy is set to (finally) conclude in the summer of 2027 with Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse. Spider-fans will finally get to see what happened to Miles after the events of Across the Spider-Verse, in which Miles was left stranded in a reality different from his own, one in which he became the Prowler instead of Spider-Man.
Avengers: Secret Wars
Release date: Dec. 17, 2027
Avengers: Secret Wars will close out Phase 6 and end what Marvel calls the Multiverse Saga, just like Avengers: Endgame concluded the Infinity Saga. Again, characters from Marvel’s other films will reappear in Secret Wars, and proven Avengers directors the Russo brothers will helm this one. The title refers to a cosmic comics crossover event about collapsing multiverses that could even herald a reboot of the MCU.
Plot details about Secret Wars are under wraps, obviously, and are dependent on the events of Doomsday. Whatever the case, it will be a major event for the MCU.
Daredevil: Born Again season 3
Release date: TBA, on Disney Plus
Marvel Television’s Daredevil: Born Again is getting a third season, which is expected to start filming in 2026. It’s possible the third season of Born Again will arrive as early as 2027, if Marvel can keep to its annual season schedule. In addition to Daredevil and Jessica Jones, the third (and final?) season of The Man Without Fear’s Disney Plus show will bring back some other well-known Defenders.
2028 Marvel Studios releases
X-Men
Release date: May 5, 2028
Marvel has brought a handful of 20th Century Fox-era X-Men actors into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, typically through multiverse shenanigans. Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, Patrick Stewart’s Professor X, Ian McKellen’s Magneto, Kelsey Grammer’s Beast, Alan Cumming’s Nightcrawler, Rebecca Romijn’s Mystique, and James Marsden’s Cyclops have all made (or will make) MCU appearances in projects like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, The Marvels, and Avengers: Doomsday. But a new era of X-Men is coming to the MCU.
Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige says the new X-Men will be “a very youth-oriented, focused, and cast movie,” and the casting thus far confirms that. At this year’s D23, Marvel Studios announced the new X-Men are:
- Sadie Sink is Jean Grey
- Kit Connor is Cyclops
- Christopher Abbott is Professor Charles Xavier
- Samara Weaving is Emma Frost
- Inde Navarrette is Rogue
- Maya Boyd is Storm
- Adam Driver is Nathaniel Milbury
There’s more casting to come, according to Feige, ahead of the X-Men 2028 reboot. Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier is helming the new X-Men movie.
Ghost Rider
Release date: July 28, 2028
The Spirit of Vengeance returns to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a new Ghost Rider movie coming in 2028. Ryan Gosling (Barbie, Project Hail Mary) is Ghost Rider. Which incarnation of Ghost Rider? That’s still under wraps for now. Shawn Levy (Deadpool & Wolverine) is in charge of this one.
Black Panther 3
Release date: Dec. 15, 2028
Marvel promised at the end of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever that “Black Panther will return.” Now, after Denzel Washington revealed he’s going to be in the next Black Panther movie, and Black Panther director Ryan Coogler confirmed he’s back for a third movie (after he gets his X-Files reboot out the door), we can finally call this one official. Where Black Panther 3 will go remains unclear, but the events of the two-part Avengers saga will likely have a pretty big impact.
There’s one big change coming: Actor David Jonsson is the new Black Panther. He’ll be playing T’Challa’s son (also named T’Challa) in Coogler’s third outing to Wakanda.
2029 Marvel Studios releases
Untitled Marvel Studios Movie
Release date: Nov. 9, 2029
Marvel Studios has an untitled movie scheduled for Nov. 9, 2029, but hasn’t said what that project is. Marvel has teased plenty of sequels over the years, including a third Doctor Strange movie, a Shang-Chi sequel, and whatever’s next for Star Lord after Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. We might also get a Fantastic Four sequel someday, but who besides Kevin Feige knows what 2029 holds?
Announced Marvel Studios projects with no release date
Nova
Release date: TBD
Marvel Studios will once again explore the cosmic side of the MCU with a new movie based on the superhero Nova. Screenwriter Michael Waldron is reportedly attached to write the movie. Waldron is a veteran of Marvel’s recent phases, having created Loki, written Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and co-written Avengers: Doomsday. A previous version of Nova was reportedly in development as a Disney Plus series, but that got scrapped.
Nova is traditionally Richard Rider, a member of the Nova Corps — which already appeared in the first Guardians of the Galaxy and counts Glenn Close, John C. Reilly, and Peter Serafinowicz among its ranks. They’re an intergalactic police force, and Rider is one of their standout members.