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. 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.
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.
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