Are you able to study extra about Marvel Phase 6? If you opened this text, try to be. At the time of this information’s final replace, we’re nonetheless round 9 months away from the third and remaining stage of the Marvel Multiverse Saga, however there will be loads of new motion pictures and Disney Plus exhibits to take pleasure in as soon as it begins.
Before it kicks off with the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s (MCU) tackle The Fantastic Four in July 2025, we have rounded up the most recent new and rumors we will discover on the Marvel Phase 6 initiatives at present in improvement. That contains any recognized launch dates, solid bulletins, trailer launches, plot synopses, and a lot extra. In brief: you may be an MCU Phase 6 skilled very quickly in any respect. So, what are you ready for, Avenger? Dive in!
Marvel Phase 6: each forthcoming MCU film and TV present
Here’s a whole information to Marvel Phase 6’s film and sequence slate, which incorporates a lot of not too long ago introduced launch dates for Marvel’s late 2024 and full 2025 TV line-up:
Marvel Phase 6 motion pictures
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Release date: July 25, 2025
Director: Matt Shakman
Confirmed and anticipated solid: Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Natasha Lyonne, Julia Garner, Ralph Ineson, Paul Walter Hauser, and John Malkovich
Marvel revealed The Fantastic Four‘s new title, revised launch date, and first solid – Pascal (Mr. Fantastic), Kirby (The Invisible Woman), Quinn (The Human Torch), and Moss-Bachrach (The Thing) – in February. Four months later, Marvel chief Kevin Feige introduced filming would begin in late July and that the film could be a interval piece set in an alternate universe – one thing followers already suspected after Marvel teased some key story particulars earlier this 12 months.
On the supporting solid entrance, Deadline claims Garner will play a gender-swapped Silver Surfer and Hauser has signed on for an undisclosed position. Marvel has additionally reportedly employed The Office UK‘s Ineson to voice Galactus and drafted Malkovich in a thriller position.
Lyonne, who’s additionally joined The Fantastic Four: First Steps‘ solid, advised ET Online that she’d wrapped her scenes in late October. For extra particulars in regards to the forthcoming movie, learn our devoted hub on The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
Avengers: Doomsday
Release date: May 1, 2026
Directors: Joe and Anthony Russo
Expected solid: Robert Downey Jr., Tom Holland, Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach
The fifth Avengers movie, previously referred to as Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, is now referred to as Avengers: Doomsday. MCU icon Downey Jr, who performed Iron Man between 2008 and 2019, will surprisingly painting Doctor Victor von Doom, considered one of Marvel’s hottest adversaries, too.
The Russo brothers, who directed massively profitable movies together with Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, are additionally after stories indicated they’d make a shock return to the MCU simply days earlier than Comic-Con 2024. Their return comes eight months after earlier director Daniel Destin Cretton walked away from Avengers 5, and some weeks after Deadpool and Wolverine‘s Shawn Levy was reportedly tapped to helm Doomsday as a substitute. Christopher McFeely – the screenwriter who penned a number of money-spinning MCU movies – has changed Michael Waldron because the Marvel Phase 6 movie’s scribe.
Avengers 5 was anticipated to start taking pictures in January 2025 with out The Fantastic Four’s involvement, however the Russos has since stated (through Collider) that it will begin taking pictures in spring 2025 (that is autumn for southern hemisphere dwellers), so Marvel’s First Family are additionally anticipated to characteristic. Tom Holland’s Peter Parker/Spider-Man is reportedly a part of the solid, too. Speaking of Spider-Man…
Spider-Man 4
Release date: July 24, 2026
Rumored director: Daniel Destin Cretton
Expected solid: Tom Holland and Zendaya
Spider-Man 4 will swing into theaters in July 2026, and The Hollywood Reporter (THR) and Variety declare Shang-Chi filmmaker Daniel Destin Cretton will direct it. The former additionally hints that Zendaya’s MJ will play a supporting position.
Spider-Man 4 was stated to start out filming a lot earlier than anticipated due to delays on Euphoria season 3 (which Zendaya, who performs MJ within the MCU, stars in). Since then, although, Holland has confirmed filming will begin in mid-2025, with trade insider DanielRPK suggesting principal pictures will start on May 25. A separate THR article alleges that Holland can even be in Avengers 5, with the A-lister taking pictures scenes for that film round Spider-Man 4 and his co-leading position in Christopher Nolan’s subsequent flick.
Plot particulars for Spider-Man’s fourth MCU outing are skinny on the bottom, however Holland has teased (per the Rich Roll Podcast) that it “lit a hearth in me” and that it had him and Zendaya leaping across the room once they learn its screenplay.
Avengers: Secret Wars
Release date: May 7, 2027
Directors: Joe and Anthony Russo
Expected solid: Robert Downey Jr., Tom Holland, Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach
The sixth Avengers film’s title hasn’t modified because it was introduced at Comic-Con 2019, but it surely will not shoot again to again with Doomsday. Speaking to Collider, the Russo brothers stated principal pictures will start “a 12 months or so” after filming wraps on Avengers 5, with DanielRPK suggesting it will begin taking pictures in May 2026.
At Comic-Con 2024 (per reporter Erik Davis), Feige confirmed The Fantastic Four will characteristic closely in Secret Wars alongside Doctor Doom. It’s unclear which different MCU heroes and/or Marvel legacy characters will present up, however Holland’s Spider-Man is predicted to, too. Feige has advised followers (per io9) to not anticipate each superhero to look within the subsequent two Avengers movies, although.
Armor Wars
Release date: TBC
Director: TBC
Expected solid: Don Cheadle
Originally billed as a TV present, Armor Wars has been retooled as a film, with Yassir Lester (Black Monday) writing the script. MCU fansite NexusLevelNews claims filming will start in January 2025, however no director is in place as of August 2024, in order that begin date is trying more and more optimistic. Indeed, Cheadle has recurrently performed down, albeit jokingly, that Armor Wars is not a factor (per The Today Show and TVLine), whereas Lester (through Motion PictureWeb) has even urged that the movie’s improvement standing shifts on a day-to-day foundation, so it is unclear if it will ever get made.
If it’s made, it will apparently comply with Cheadle’s James ‘Rhodey’ Rhodes/War Machine as he pursues criminals who’ve acquired some previous Tony Stark-developed know-how. It ought to decide up occasions from Secret Invasion‘s finale, given what we realized about Rhodey (or what followers have fiercely debated about him, anyway) in that sequence, too. MCU leaker Alex Perez additionally suggests Sam Rockwell’s Justin Hammer may seem within the MCU for the primary time since 2010’s Iron Man 2.
Blade
Release date: TBC
Director: TBC
Expected solid: Mahershala Ali and Mia Goth
After his off-screen Eternals cameo, the vampiric anti-hero referred to as Blade was anticipated to get an R-rated MCU film. However,
With so many points affecting its improvement, no person actually is aware of what is going on on with Marvel’s Blade film. In reality, current stories recommend Blade has been delayed indefinitely – that is despite Feige telling ComicBookMovie.com that its artistic group had been hoping to crack the case (not vampire skulls) on its script quickly, earlier than telling with Blavity TV he was “feeling good” in regards to the movie’s newest screenplay.
Mahershala Ali continues to be anticipated to star because the titular vampire hunter and, whereas Goth was closely rumored to be enjoying Blade‘s lead villain, she confirmed she’d characteristic (per Deadline) earlier than the movie was seemingly shelved. It’s unclear if the pair are nonetheless contracted to the apparently cursed Marvel Phase 6 film.
Marvel Phase 6 TV exhibits
Eyes of Wakanda
Release date: August 6, 2025
Director: Todd Harris
Expected solid: TBC
A shock Marvel Phase 6 announcement, Eyes of Wakanda is a Black Panther Disney Plus spin-off set to debut subsequent August. Its logline reads: “Throughout Wakandan historical past, courageous warriors have been tasked to journey the world retrieving harmful vibranium artefacts. This is their story.”
Marvel’s Head of Television Brad Winderbaum advised CBR.com it will comprise 4 episodes, has been in improvement since 2021, Marc Bernardin (Star Trek: Picard) has written two entries, and it will be an anthology present within the mould of What If…?. Speaking to Men’s Health, Winderbaum additionally confirmed Eyes of Wakanda will slot seamlessly onto the Sacred Timeline and, as he advised the Official Marvel Podcast episode 2, be the primary Marvel Studios animated mission that’ll “tie instantly into the MCU.”
Speaking a D23 Expo 2024, director Todd Harris closely teased Iron Fist (not the Finn Jones model from Netflix’ Marvel-Verse) will seem in an episode. In late October, the present’s first footage was additionally debuted as a part of Marvel’s newest ‘Look Ahead’ trailer.
Marvel Zombies
Release date: TBC
Director: TBC
Expected solid: Iman Vellani, Simu Liu, and Mahershala Ali
A spin-off of What If…?, Marvel Zombies will decide up after season 1 episode 5 – aka ‘What If… Zombies!?’ – and includes 4 episodes. It’ll be rated TV-MA within the US (18-plus within the UK and Australia), as confirmed by What If…? director Bryan Andrews at D23 Expo 2024. Per Marvel’s most up-to-date ‘Look Ahead’ teaser, it will arrive in time for Halloween 2025 on Disney Plus, aka one of many world’s greatest streaming providers.
Marvel Zombies will see the MCU’s newer heroes battle the ever-growing zombie superhero risk, with Shang-Chi, Ms Marvel, Kate Bishop, Yelena Belova, Red Guardian, and Blade reportedly among the many dwindling superhero roster. Iman Vellani, who performs Ms Marvel, says her character is “form of the middle of the present” (per The Direct). Rumors recommend we’ll see a zombified model of Ikaris however, given the Eternals are human-robot hybrids, it will be attention-grabbing to see how the an infection impacts him. Other supposed zombified heroes embrace Captain Marvel, Okoye, Ghost, Abomination, and Hawkeye.
Wonder Man
Release date: December 2025, date TBC
Director: Daniel Destin Crretton
Expected solid: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Ben Kingsley, Demetrius Grosse, and Byron Bowers
Another long-gestating MCU TV sequence, Wonder Man – co-created by Andrew Guest and Cretton – shall be a 10-part Marvel Spotlight comedy sequence that tells the story of an actor who performs a fictional superhero, however would not know he is additionally one in actual life. Feige advised the official Marvel podcast that it is “extraordinarily completely different” from something the studio has made earlier than.
Marvel’s Wonder Man present landed DCEU alumnus Abdul-Mateen II for the titular position, as Simon Williams/Wonder-Man, in November 2022. Kingsley, who performed Trevor Slattery in Iron Man 3 and Shang-Chi, can be a part of proceedings and, primarily based on the 15 seconds of footage we noticed in Marvel’s ‘Look Ahead’ teaser, Slattery shall be Williams’ mentor. Demetrius Grosse (through TVLine) is reportedly enjoying Eric Williams and his supervillain alias Grim Reaper, too, whereas Deadline stories Byron Bowers is on board in an undisclosed position. Little else is understood about this Marvel Phase 6 manufacturing, but it surely sounds extremely thrilling to us.
Untitled Vision TV present
Release date: TBC
Director: TBC
Expected solid: Paul Bettany, James Spader, and Todd Stashwick
Marvel took its time to formally announce this mission, however Feige lastly confirmed (per Inverse) the existence of a second WandaVision spin-off that is anticipated to reach on Disney Plus in 2026. Bettany advised THR that filming will start in early 2025, too.
Written by Star Trek: Picard season 3 showrunner Terry Matalas, it will reportedly star Paul Bettany as White Vision, the revived, persona-less synthezoid physique of the deceased Vision (he died in Avengers: Infinity War), who flew off for components unknown within the season finale of WandaVision, aka the most effective Disney Plus exhibits. Few different story particulars are recognized, but it surely may very well be impressed by Marvel’s ‘Vision Quest’ and Tom King’s ‘Vision’ comedian sequence runs. MCU insider Daniel RPK (through the Scarlet Witch News X/Twitter fan account) claims it will be a restricted sequence, too.
As for its supporting solid, THR claims James Spader will return to voice Ultron and that Picard‘s Todd Stashwick will painting an unnamed murderer searching Vision for the synthezoid tech he possesses. Deadline suggests Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch may additionally cameo, although it is unclear if this would be the actual character or a model that White Vision fabricates.
X-Men 97 season 2
Release date: TBC
Director: TBC
Expected solid: Ray Chase, Jennifer Hale, Alison Sealy-Smith, Cal Dodd, J.P. Karliak, Lenore Zann, George Buza, Holly Chou, Matthew Waterson, and Ross Marquand
With its first season ending on a cliffhanger – learn our X-Men 97 ending defined article for extra – a second season of the critically acclaimed sequel to beloved Nineties basic X-Men: The Animated Series appeared inevitable.
Thankfully, work has been ongoing for a while, with THR reporter Borys Kit saying season 2 has been in improvement since mid-2022. It’s now in post-production, with Winderbaum telling the Official Marvel Podcast: “I’ve already seen all of the animatics and we’re nicely on our technique to creating one thing that hits the heights of the primary season. I do know the primary season is an emotional experience [and] that experience continues in a really X-Men style within the second season”. According to Nexus Points News, it might arrive someday in 2026. For extra particulars, learn our devoted hub for X-Men 97 season 2.
A 3rd season (per Entertainment Weekly) is already in improvement, with Deadline claiming What If…? author Matthew Chauncey will take the reins for season 3.
Nova
Release date: TBC
Director: TBC
Expected solid: TBC
After quite a few rumors unfold on-line {that a} Nova mission was in improvement at Marvel, Feige confirmed it was true (through ComicE book.com) in July. In dialog with Collider, Winderbaum teased it will be a cross between Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica.
Feige additionally advised ComicE book.com that it will give attention to the Richard Rider model of the cosmic superhero (i.e. not one other member of the Nova Corps.), but it surely’s nonetheless “three to 4 years out” from being launched. In brief: do not anticipate a lot information on this Marvel Phase 6 TV sequence for a protracted, very long time.
As work continues on Nova, there are contrasting stories on what kind it will take. The Cosmic Circus claims it will be a Disney Plus Special Presentation or a TV sequence, whereas MCU leaker MyTimeToShineHello (MTTSH) alleges it will be a film. MTTSH additionally suggests Glenn Close and John C. Reilly will reprise their roles from 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy for bit-part roles, too.
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