JULY 2023 - CAPTAIN MARVEL 2



There's been no concrete news of Captain Marvel 2 - even star Brie Larson doesn't know when it will happen, but Kevin Feige has confirmed it's coming. The first film grossed over $1 billion worldwide, bringing a satisfying end to the longstanding Hollywood myth that audiences aren't interested in female superheroes, and defying vocal critics on social media. It's difficult to precisely place Captain Marvel 2 in the slate, but Marvel may well want to turn it into a tent-pole summer release. Captain Marvel 2 is one of the few more distant film projects to have a clear link to the Disney+ TV shows; Marvel's confirmed that they're working on a Ms. Marvel series, centered around a young Pakistani-American teenager who's inspired by Carol Danvers. It stands to reason that Carol Danvers and Kamala Khan will cross paths.

NOVEMBER 2023 - X-MEN



Our final prediction is that November 2023 could be another franchise launch, introducing the MCU's version of the X-Men. One of Marvel's big concerns with the X-Men will be that their films will inevitably be compared to Fox's, and they'll need this amount of time to ensure previous iterations of popular characters - most notably Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, James McAvoy's Charles Xavier, and Michael Fassbender's Magneto - are seen as legacies rather than competitors. Meanwhile, the idea of "mutants" isn't necessarily an organic fit for the MCU, so it may require a bit of setup. Still, speaking at SDCC 2019 Kevin Feige insisted that "there's no time left to talk about mutants, and how mutants fit into the MCU." That means Marvel has already figured out their approach, and we're speculating that November 2023 will see the MCU's mutants emerge on the big screen.

Black Widow (2020) release date: May 01, 2020
Eternals (2020) release date: Nov 06, 2020
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) release date: Feb 12, 2021
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2021) release date: May 07, 2021
Spider-Man: Homecoming 3 (2021) release date: Jul 16, 2021
Thor: Love and Thunder (2021) release date: Nov 05, 2021
Black Panther 2 (2022) release date: May 06, 2022