Marvel Studios recently revealed the most anticipated casting news in recent memory and boasted the world’s top-grossing film. Deadpool & Wolverine passed over $600 million at the box office recently and look to break more records. What more surprises is Marvel planning for this summer? The studio has added multiple new films to the release calendar, but there will undoubtedly be more news and footage unveiled during the D23 Expo in Anaheim, California, next week.
Disney officially announced this week at San Diego Comic-Con that, starting on May 1, 2026, Avengers: Doomsday will replace Kang in Avengers 4. First Steps and Thunderbolts* (with an asterisk added) were the new titles for The Fantastic Four that were formally added to the calendar—next, the other important things. Two new films—one on July 23, 2027, and another on November 5, 2027—were added, and an untitled film that was supposed to be released on July 24, 2026, was removed from the schedule.
Captain America: New World Order (February 14, 2025), Blade (November 7, 2025; more on that later), Avengers: Secret Wars (May 7, 2027), and untitled movies on February 13, 2026, and November 6, 2026. are still scheduled.
Here’s what we have, and since the sequence matters, we gotta follow these steps:
- Captain America: Brave New World: February 14, 2025
- Thunderbolts*: May 2, 2025
- The Fantastic Four: First Steps, July 25, 2025
- Blade, November 7, 2025
- Untitled Marvel Film, February 13, 2026
- Avengers: Doomsday, May 1, 2026
- Untitled Marvel Film, November 6, 2026
- Avengers: Secret Wars, May 7, 2027
- Untitled Marvel Film, July 23, 2027
- Untitled Marvel Film, November 5, 2027
Blade in 2025 is the first thing that immediately comes to mind. We have to assume the movie will eventually be relocated or eliminated given the controversy surrounding it, the recent Deadpool & Wolverine joke (“There’s only one Blade! Only ever gonna be one Blade!”), and the fact that it’s the fourth film at a time when three seems to be the perfect number.
Beyond that, the film from February 13, 2026, seems like it must somehow set up Doomsday, so perhaps Shang-Chi 2? Furthermore, the film is scheduled to release on November 6, 2026, and between the two Avengers films, it is likely to be a touch off-topic. Perhaps Doctor Strange 3 or Armor Wars?
And for 2027—well, who knows? But one of them needs to be a new Deadpool or X-Men film, given that Secret Wars may mark the beginning of Marvel’s next phase.
Oh, and don’t overlook Spider-Man either. There will undoubtedly be a fourth Tom Holland Spider-Man, but it will be released by Sony rather than Marvel/Disney. Perhaps this is why the Marvel film scheduled for July 2026 was rescheduled to accommodate Spider-Man.
Then there is the matter of when we will receive responses to all of this. The Comic Con last week would have been the logical location, but that has come and gone. Is that what the D23 Expo is? Or will Marvel hold off on looking ahead until Comic-Con the following year? We’ll be eager to learn as much as you are.
