Yesterday, we reported about Disney Investor Day, an event during which Mouse House executives presented almost a dozen upcoming Star Wars projects. Their plans for the Marvel Cinematic Universe are equally ambitious.
Kevin Feige, the mastermind behind the MCU, announced more new Marvel TV shows for Disney Plus. For those of you keeping score, these currently include Hawkeye, Loki, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, WandaVision, and animated series What If…? Well, now you can add at least three more to the pile!
First, there’s Secret Invasion, a live-action series in which Samuel L. Jackson will return as Nick Fury along with Ben Mendelsohn’s alien shapeshifter Talos. Then there is Armor Wars, featuring Don Cheadle as Colonel James Rhodes, aka War Machine. Finally, there’s Ironheart, in which Dominique Thorne (If Beale Street Could Talk) plays Riri Williams, a teenage engineering genius who draws the attention of Tony Stark after building her own Iron Man suit.
While by now we all know James Gunn will direct Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, there are two new smaller projects attached to it. Gunn will also helm Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special for Disney Plus, coming out on Christmas Day, 2022. There’s also I Am Groot, a series of short films starring our favorite tree alien.
As for Marvel movies, we finally learned Christian Bale’s role in Thor: Love and Thunder. Bale will portray Gorr the Butcher, an alien hunting down and murdering gods. Jaimie Alexander, who played Lady Sif in the first Thor films, will return for the fourth movie. Payton Reed’s third Ant-Man film, titled Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, will feature Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Paul Rudd. Jonathan Majors (Lovecraft Country) will join them as the supervillain Kang the Conqueror. Finally, Marvel Studios is developing yet another Fantastic Four movie. Because if you don’t succeed the first four times, try, try again! This time, it will be directed by Jon Watts, who helmed Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home.
But as the TV ad says, that’s not all! Tomorrow we’ll be taking a look at yet more Disney announcements. It’s almost as if Disney is this huge corporate juggernaut that earned almost one-third of the US box office in 2019 or something!
