Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige returns triumphantly to Comic Con Saturday and received a hero’s welcome from the enthusiastic audience.
“I’m incredibly excited,” Feige said, noting that he sometimes wondered if he would ever come back to the scam.
In typical Feige fashion, he immediately started with something new. Feige revealed that Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (November 11) will complete the studio’s Phase 4 projects, which will include: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (February 17, 2023) Phase 5 starts.
Feige shared some release dates (or in the case of his Disney+ shows, estimated dates), with Loki season two will be released in summer 2022; the hawkeye spin-off Echo debuts on Disney+ in summer 2023; iron heart streaming in the fall of 2023; Mahershala Alis Sheet film opening in cinemas November 3, 2023; the new title Kathryn Hahn/WandaVision spin-off Agatha: Coven of Chaos bow to Disney+ in the winter of 2023.
What’s more, he gave a title and date for Anthony Mackie’s Captain America movie, revealing that the title is Captain America: New World Order. The film will premiere on May 3, 2024. He also shared the title for Charlie Cox’s return to Daredevil, featuring Daredevil: Born Again an 18-episode series on Disney+. Starring Vincent D’Onofrio as Kingpin, it is expected to be released in the spring of 2024. Meanwhile, the villain-focused film is Lightning strikes will close phase 5 with a date of July 26, 2024.
Phase 4 was about “resetting the MCU and meeting all these new characters”, post-Avengers: EndgameFeige said, before outlining Phase 5 in more detail
The world looked very different the last time Feige faced the 6,500-person Hall H. In July 2019, the director laid down the stage 4 of the studio, after-Avengers: Endgame plan – one with robust theatrical and streaming plans. Then the coronavirus hit, closing movie theaters and disrupting Marvel’s release calendar. There were no Marvel movies for nearly two years, but now things are back on track and Feige shares his vision of what’s to come.
Read on for a brief summary of some of the projects.
SIDE-HULK
Early in the panel, Feige welcomed the team behind the Disney+ series She-Hulk to share a new trailer revealing that Cox’ Matt Murdock will be appearing in the series as a lawyer. Described as a half-hour comedy, Feige noting that the MCU can “make a pitch shift”. It can range from funny to ‘something dark, something rough, something political thriller’.
Let’s do this. 💚
Watch the brand new trailer for #SheHulk: Attorney at Law, an original series streaming August 17 @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/yKwL5p4nxO
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) July 24, 2022
SECRET INVASION
Then Feige . introduced Secret Invasion, the Skrull-focused project starring Samuel L. Jackson and Cobie Smulders. “You’ll never know who people really are. Are they Skrul? Are they human?” Smulders said the introduction of a trailer in which Nick Fury (Jackson) returns to Earth after the events of Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019).
ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA
Ant Man 3 director Peyton Reed was next, praising that in this film “we can finally spend time in the quantum realm.” Star Paul Rudd noted that his character, Scott Lang, is quite happy with himself for helping save the universe in Endgame – and footage showed Lang reading from his memoirs. Later, he is sucked into the Quantum Realm where he comes into contact with the villain Kang (Jonathan Majors). “Maybe there was a recording of MODOK,” Reed said after the footage played back. Majors, meanwhile, joined the MCU with Loki as the great evil He Who Abides. He noted that version in Loki is not the same in Ant Man 3 — he is another variant.
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