Marvel Studios' Updated Phase Six Slate after New York Comic Con 2025
Major Updates
Marvel Television
- Wonder Man: A full trailer was shown for the series starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Simon Williams, with Ben Kingsley reprising his role as Trevor Slattery. The series is set to premiere in January 2026 under the Marvel Spotlight banner.
- Daredevil: Born Again (Season 2): New footage and plot details were revealed for the second season, confirming the return of Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones. Vincent D'Onofrio's Kingpin is shown in a boxing ring, and plot elements include TV propaganda and civil unrest. A third season was also confirmed.
- VisionQuest: This WandaVision spinoff was confirmed for a 2026 release, bringing back Paul Bettany as Vision. James Spader will return as a human version of Ultron, and other AI characters from the MCU will also appear in human forms.
Marvel Studios Special Presentations
- The Punisher (Marvel TV Special): It was announced that Jon Bernthal will return as Frank Castle for a TV special in 2026.
Marvel Animation
- X-Men '97 (Season 2): The panel confirmed a summer 2026 release and a third season for the critically acclaimed series. The new trailer revealed the return of Apocalypse and a classic brown-suited Wolverine. The plot will continue from the events of Season 1.
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (Season 2): A second season was announced for a fall 2026 release. A trailer showed Spider-Man's new suit and teased an encounter with a symbiote. A third season is also in development.
Marvel Television
- Wonder Man: A full trailer was shown for the series starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Simon Williams, with Ben Kingsley reprising his role as Trevor Slattery. The series is set to premiere in January 2026 under the Marvel Spotlight banner.
- Daredevil: Born Again (Season 2): New footage and plot details were revealed for the second season, confirming the return of Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones. Vincent D'Onofrio's Kingpin is shown in a boxing ring, and plot elements include TV propaganda and civil unrest. A third season was also confirmed.
- VisionQuest: This WandaVision spinoff was confirmed for a 2026 release, bringing back Paul Bettany as Vision. James Spader will return as a human version of Ultron, and other AI characters from the MCU will also appear in human forms.
Marvel Studios Special Presentations
- The Punisher (Marvel TV Special): It was announced that Jon Bernthal will return as Frank Castle for a TV special in 2026.
Marvel Animation
- X-Men '97 (Season 2): The panel confirmed a summer 2026 release and a third season for the critically acclaimed series. The new trailer revealed the return of Apocalypse and a classic brown-suited Wolverine. The plot will continue from the events of Season 1.
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (Season 2): A second season was announced for a fall 2026 release. A trailer showed Spider-Man's new suit and teased an encounter with a symbiote. A third season is also in development.
Commentaires
- Moon Knight S2
- Hawkeye S2
- Shang-Chi 2
- Dr Strange 3
- Any sort of Eternals follow-up
Loki and Wandavision both got a season 2, even if WV's was under a diff name. And both had fantastic second seasons.
Well it's very well made! Whoever made it.
Is every release date on here confirmed?
I get people were into AAA and liked the character, but Visionquest has a pretty difficult task to make Billy a character average fans will really care about
Wandavision takes place in late 2023.
~~Agatha All Along takes place in 2024.~~
VisionQuest is going to take place shortly after that.
I think people forget that the MCU timeline hasn't been in synch with the real world since Infinity War.
Thunderbolts took place in 2027 and the post-credit scene puts us in at least early 2029 for the start of Doomsday.
Fair enough.
I was distracted by other things when I watched it and never rewatched.
I was going by Paul Bettany's comments.
He said his series takes around one year after WandaVision.
So it might take place over an extended period of time or just have a time skip within the show. Because it would be strange for it to be before Agatha.
Either way, it hasn't been 6 years in universe.
The problem was that there were too many projects that were greenlit and developed in a short period of time in 2021/2022. WandaVision and Agatha All Along were both created and developed by Jac Schaffer and she was supposed to also work on VisionQuest, but she already had her plate full with AAA, so they brought on another showrunner to retool the project while also continuing what she had already developed.
Throw in the whole "Marvel wanting to space out its projects" mission and you get a trilogy that, while telling a connected story, are released rather far apart.
He was also never gonna get a sequel that quick while there were other characters waiting for one first. We’ve only been getting sequels between Eternals and Thunderbolts/F4
Casual audiences don’t care about Disney+ shows whether they make them or don’t. They care that the characters in the movies are either brand new, or look familiar. They care that they can follow a story in the movies without being confused. So as long as they don’t make The Marvels 2 with Daredevil and Wonder Man, there’s no problem. The movies on that list are all brand new or familiar characters. The shows look small enough scale to not be tied to the movies directly. Looks like a good balance.
In fact, it might have been worse had they made a movie for absolutely everything. Imagine a Loki, WandaVision, Hawkeye, Moon Knight, Ms Marvel, She Hulk movie on top of everything else that was already going on. The fatigue would have been way worse.
I think the problem wasn't them releasing shows instead of movies, but rather the lack of quality control. If all these shows and movies were bangers after bangers, I doubt you would have had as strong of a resentment towards the D+ shows.
In fact, I feel like Marvel is aware of that as well, that's why every new D+ project you're seeing right now is more or less just their own isolated projects. You don't have to watch any of these for the main Doomsday Secret Wars storyline. Even VisionQuest is so far self-contained within the WandaVision sphere, basically functioning as a S3 after Agatha all along.
What year is it over there?
Also, we’re now averaging about as many movies per year as Marvel Studios had been doing pre-Covid, so that’s actually a return to normal. They’re just now adding more shows with non-essential stories.
Shang Chi 2 in tatters
Blade reboot DOA
They're all titles. What are we supposed to be excited about? Almost all of the titles here have been known since 2023.
I really don't see any point in seeing titles when they're either known OR Disney is gonna change things up like Blade.
Shows: Daredevil, Wonder Man, Vision Quest
Special Presentation: The Punisher
Movies: Spider-Man and two Avengers movies
Seems balanced and kind of fucking awesome to me. Wonder Man is the only random thing on here but the trailer looked good.
If it was phase 4 it would be a bunch of random characters and off the wall new shit, but look at that list above. They are playing the hits. This is all heat.
He’s a lesser known character but he has ties to carol and the other avengers, I’m actually disappointed we didn’t get more street level stuff on the other end. I want more of the defenders and I wanted to see heroes for hire take off. I guess until doomsday they’ll be in limbo.
Their direction is interesting because it seems like major events are gonna be in brand new day when it looked like we finally were going to get a more typical spider-man story. I also don’t like the idea of shows feeling like required watching , I’m watching visionquest either way but I hope it’s not required for other people
Anything else that was on these timelines that somehow got zapped into oblivion? I’m hoping everything that was talked about or announcement will get a chance to shine at least someday..
Edit: with Fantastic 4 now out, and X-Men being talked about out for the next Phase, following a reset.. the only things announced that still haven’t seen any light of day are Armor Wars & Blade, both of which were Phase 4 movies originally. Here’s to them finally getting approved at some point.
I would also like to see a few deserving sequels to movies and shows we really need. A Doctor Strange 3, Shang-Chi 2, and maybe even Eternals 2 should get a sequel movie. While Moon Knight, Hawkeye, and She-Hulk should get a second season, Loki with a 3rd and maybe final season.
Adding shows to 2 films yearly is reasonable.
Every time i think about it I get mad
Rewatching the first episode of the Netflix DD and then watching Born Again after is like watching Oldboy and then watching the Josh Brolin one right after. The gap in quality is astounding
Long story short: There was appreciation for this first season if only in that they were able to salvage/piece together what we got from a ton of work/footage already done by the previous crew. Anticipation for S2's quality is higher after having the reins to do it entirely themselves.
That Kingpin/Police chief murder is the perfect example of them missing the point. Thinking that people only liked the OG show because it was “dark” so they gave us an insanely grotesque murder that still fell flat because the writing leading up to it was sloppy and nobody cared about said commissioner in the first place.
The writing was dull, the characters uninteresting and not fleshed out, dialogues that used to be shot in long takes with intense monologues dripped in sick lightning became dull shot/reverse shot nothingburgers with NO SAUCE.
Not to mention the action in Born Again sucks so there’s not even that to enjoy. I honest to god cannot fathom someone thinking S3 of DD is worse than Born Again. I don’t even think S3 is the best season of DD and it’s miles ahead of that grade school garbage disney put out.
oo but it’s grade school until the end when we get a really gory and brutal Kingpin murder in the finale so we can say this is for adults! Except it’s not written for adults!
But I’m gonna say it’s a matter of taste because there is so much of Netflix DD that I find unbearable, but the show was always very stylish, which I appreciate. It seems like you like the show as a whole way more than me, and on a rewatch it was a total drag that I really had to force myself to get through, especially anything with Foggy and Karen. Born again was just like 90% of MCU shows, watchable but incredibly generic. For my personal tastes, Punisher (the character) is the shining star of the Netflix shows, then Daredevil, then Elektra and stick, and everyone else is wayyy down below that.
Really looking forward to seeing the rhythm of it all come back with Doomsday.
Will check out daredevil if the writing in the first episode is good. But, not doing a whole season of that again if the writing sucks like the last season
At one point, it was a strength, but now it has turned into the number 1 weakness of marvel properties
Instead of allowing movies or shows to shine and develop on their own regards, everything now is some setup or filler or connection to some other property and that has become the single biggest weakness to their media
Marvel went from being ahead of the curve to now behind the curve, because it is weighed down by its past and history and "how its always been done"
Betting on popular series, nothing unusual.
Covid and the actor/writer strike fucked up the schedule hard
Even the work that is MCU related (usually through the actors involvement), it rarely fits into the MCU's narrative. I mean, despite what Disney+ tells me, I don't really think I Am Groot is something that needs to be watched when going through the entire catalogue in timeline order.
Make Blade god dammit