Keeping track of all the upcoming Marvel Studios projects, both in the MCU and outside of it, can be a difficult job. There are new movies and TV shows in development all the time as the MCU continues bringing in more iconic characters and stories from the comics. With multiple Avengers movies on the release schedule, the list of upcoming Marvel Studios projects keeps growing.

 

Upcoming Marvel movies and TV show release schedule

If you're looking for a quick rundown of everything with a date (or at least a year), we have that for you here:

Release Date	Project	Type	Platform
July 31, 2026	Spider-Man: Brand New Day	Live-action movie	Theatrical
October 14, 2026	VisionQuest, season 1	Live-action series	Disney+
December 18, 2026	Avengers: Doomsday	Live-action movie	Theatrical
December 17, 2027	Avengers: Secret Wars	Live-action movie	Theatrical
December 18, 2028	Black Panther 3	Live-action movie	Theatrical
TBD 2028	Ghost Rider	Live-action movie	Theatrical

Now if you finished this list and thought we forgot about a couple of animated projects - the '97, Friendly, and Spider-Versal kind, in particular - don't worry. We're going to get to projects that don't quite fit into the larger MCU Sacred Timeline narrative in just a moment. But first, let's dive into the current moment of that mainstream cinematic universe, as we get some more details on:

All Marvel Studios film and TV projects with release dates

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

What happened to Peter Parker after he successfully made the entire world forget all about him? We'll finally get some closure on the astonishingly downbeat ending of 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home with the much-rumored, now-official fourth Tom Holland Spider-Man movie, scheduled for July 2026. 

Release Date: July 31, 2026

Platform: Theatrical

VisionQuest

Fans have been waiting for four years to find out just what happened to the Vision after he flew off in the final episode of 2021's WandaVision, but an answer is finally forthcoming... as long as we can wait a couple of years. Terry Matalas, who was showrunner for the final season of Star Trek: Picard, will step into a similar role for an as-yet-untitled show that sees Paul Bettany reprise his role as the synthezoid Avenger. No further details are known as yet, but it's good to know it's happening, if nothing else...

Release Date: October 14, 2026

Platform: Disney+

Avengers: Doomsday

The first Avengers film in 7 years was originally titled Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, but Marvel pivoted away from that title - and seemingly from the Kang storyline it's been building to over the past few years - due to Jonathan Majors being found guilty of assault and harassment of a former girlfriend. Instead, the new title of the movie reflects the movie's new nemesis, who is a character audiences have been waiting a very long time for: Doctor Victor Von Doom. Almost nothing is known about this version of the iconic Marvel villain (perhaps this iconic Marvel villain), other than one all-important fact: he'll be played by Robert Downey Jr., as revealed at SDCC 2024. How? Why? That remains to be seen, but it's going to be a trip finding out.

Downey Jr. isn't the only one returning for this fifth Avengers movie: the film (and its sequel, 2027's Avengers: Secret Wars) will be directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, and written by Stephen McFeely. This particular creative team have worked together before on a handful of little-known movies, such as Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame.

Release Date: December 18, 2026

Platform: Theatrical (Buy tickets on Fandango or Atom Tickets)

Avengers: Secret Wars

The second half of the climax to the current era of the MCU will have the same writer/directors team as Doomsday, and according to Kevin Feige on stage at SDCC 2024, will feature the casts of The Fantastic 4: First Steps, Thunderbolts*, and Captain America: Brave New World, plus (I suspect) some more special guests. (I mean, Deadpool's got to show up, right?) Beyond that, we have no idea what to expect from this one, but we're very excited to find out when it happens.

Release Date: December 17, 2027

Platform: Theatrical

Black Panther 3

At San Diego Comic-Con 2026, one of the big announcements was that Ryan Coogler was working on a new Black Panther film and he had even cast its star; David Jonsson as T'Challa II, the son of Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa that was introduced in 2022's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. We've got a release date and a star, but not a lot of other details just yet.

Release Date: December 15, 2028

Platform: Theatrical

Not exactly part of the MCU

As we mentioned earlier, there are a couple of projects bearing the Marvel logo that don't exactly fit into the MCU proper coming down the barrel - Here they are:

Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse

How is Miles Morales going to escape not just his alternate reality villainous self, the Prowler - it's just like that Mirror Universe episode of Star Trek, but with more costumes? - but also the wrath of the Spider Society and Miguel O'Hara? We'll have to wait to find out; what had initially been set for a spring 2024 release was entirely taken off Sony's release schedule last year, in light of production slowdowns and the writers and actors strikes.

Platform: Theatrical

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Season 2

After a successful first season, the almost-but-not-quite MCU saga of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is coming back for a second season. In case you haven't been watching, the stakes were quite high by the end of season 1 (and pretty unexpected for casual Spidey fans), with Peter's relationship to ex-mentor Norman Osborne taking on a new flavor. We expect the additions of Venom and Spider-Gwen, as were recently confirmed, to mix things up even more.

Platform: Disney+

Movies & TV Shows With No Dates Yet

Ghost Rider

At San Diego Comic-Con 2026, we got confirmation that a new Spirit of Vengeance is coming to the MCU. Shawn Levy and Ryan Gosling are sticking together after Star Wars: Starfighter for a new Ghost Rider movie. The movie is expected to come out in 2028, but there aren't any other details available at the moment.

Platform: Theatrical

Release Window: 2028

Armor Wars

Marvel originally announced Armor Wars in 2020 as a TV mini-series to star Don Cheadle’s James 'Rhodey' Rhodes, aka War Machine. Word on the street now is that it’s going to be a movie instead. According to producer Nate Moore, the project just got too big for a series. “When you’re talking about a show that wants to be about seeing all the cool armors and, you know, Don Cheadle interacting with all these armors and sort of the legacy of Tony Stark, that became kind of cost prohibitive to do as a show.”

Kevin Feige has indicated that the series will somehow follow on the events of Secret Invasion, and that it will involve War Machine having to deal with Tony Stark’s tech falling into the wrong hands.

Platform: Disney+

Release Window: TBD

Shang-Chi 2

The sequel to Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has been greenlit since December of 2021. So far that’s all we know. The future of this project may depend on what happens with Shang-Chi when he shows up in Avengers: Doomsday in late 2026.

Platform: Theatrical

Release Window: TBD

Untitled Wakanda/Okoye Show

Marvel hasn’t officially announced this, but in 2021 Ryan Coogler announced he’s working on a Wakanda TV show for Disney+. A few months later Hollywood Reporter reported that the series will be an Okoye origin story. And recently on the Late Show Okoye actress Danai Gurira told Stephen Colbert that she can "gently allude to this possibility."

Platform: Disney+

Thor 5

No one at Disney has said anything about a fifth Thor movie, but Love and Thunder did end with Jane Foster’s surprising death, Thor adopting a super-powered daughter, and the introduction of Hercules, who is tasked by Zeus to destroy Thor. So there’s a lot there...

Chris Hemsworth has said he might be open to doing another one, but only if it takes a very different tone from the last two.

Platform: Theatrical

X-Men

We've already had some X-Men action in the MCU with Deadpool & Wolverine, but we are getting even more when the likes of Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, and other members of the X-Men cast were confirmed to be in Avengers: Doomsday. We know that the X-Men are getting their own introduction to the MCU eventually, but we don't know who the new mutant cast will be or even a release window for it.

Platform: Theatrical

Release Window: TBD

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What’s coming out next for Marvel?

If you’re wondering what the next movie set in the MCU is going to be, that’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day, out July 31, 2026. 

Is Tony Stark coming back?

Ever since his tragic demise at the climax of 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, fans have wondered if there could ever be a return for Robert Downey Jr. to the MCU — a question that gained extra weight with the introduction of a multiverse that presumably includes worlds where Tony Stark didn’t sacrifice himself for the good of reality. A 2023 Vanity Fair profile of Downey offered what looks like a definitive answer, and it might not have been what people were expecting: Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said that there would not be a reversal of the character’s death.

“We are going to keep that moment and not touch that moment again,” Feige was quoted as saying, seemingly closing the door on Downey Jr.’s return as Iron Man. Of course, with Downey now returning to the MCU as Victor Von Doom, it's a very fair question to ask whether or not Doctor Doom is an alternate world's Tony Stark...

Is Kang still in the MCU?

Following Jonathan Majors’ conviction of of 3rd degree assault, 2nd degree harassment, and recklessly causing physical injury in late December 2023, Marvel officially cut ties with the actor — despite his having appeared as Kang or variants thereof in Loki seasons 1 and 2, as well as Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, all of which were intended to set up the next major story arc for the MCU, which would culminate in the two movies Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars.

Quite what this means remains open to question, especially considering Marvel has removed the “Kang Dynasty” subtitle from the fifth Avengers movie, and replaced Kang as the villain of the movie. Will we ever see Kang again, or should we just accept that his story ended in the second season of Disney+'s Loki?

Will Loki return?

Loki, still played by Tom Hiddleston, is returning to the MCU for Avengers: Doomsday. We've seen a brief glimpse of him in the first trailer for the movie, but his exact role is unclear. Loki's story seemingly came to an end in the final episode of Loki Season 2, but something - probably Doctor Doom-related - is bringing him back.

Will there be an Echo season 2?

One of the most recent projects from Marvel Studios was on Disney+; Echo — the first Marvel Spotlight project, which is the banner to signify projects intended to have more of a character focus than a connection to the larger MCU storyline.

In fact, the show was developed as a miniseries that could very well stand on its own - perhaps this is why there's been no official word of an Echo season 2 heading to streaming. However, fans of Vincent D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk (who appears in Echo), will show up in the MCU again, as the character is confirmed to be a part of Daredevil: Born Again.

What will Secret Wars be about?

As things previously stood, it was expected that Avengers: Secret Wars would mirror the 2015 Secret Wars comic book series, with the incursions of multiple Earths resulting in one patchwork planet made up of different timelines being all that remained of all reality, with one villain controlling everything as an omnipotent despot… before things go wrong and the good guys try to restart existence itself. Curiously enough, onstage at SDCC 2024, Joe Russo explicitly referenced the 1984 Secret Wars series when talking about the inspiration for the story the movie will be telling, so... huh. Consider this one purposefully vague, I suspect.

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Consider this a meta post-credits scene for Marvel fans - the four key articles you need to read next to continue the thrills:

• All the upcoming MCU movies, TV series, and specials on the horizon
• How to watch the Marvel Cinematic Universe in release or chronological order
• The best Marvel Comics stories of all time
• All the MCU movies ranked from best to worst