Marvel Phase 5: new MCU movies and Disney Plus shows plus known release dates
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Searching for more news on Marvel Phase 5 after Deadpool and Wolverine? You're in luck. In this guide, we've rounded up every Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film and Disney Plus series that'll be released between now and May 2025, which is when Marvel's latest phase is expected to end.
First, you'll find a full list of all of the new Marvel movies and TV shows set to debut over the next 12 months. Then, you'll find an entry – categorized under our movie and series banners – for each project that reveals more about their release dates (if they've been announced), their latest trailers (if any have been released), official cast news, story brief (if they're available), and the odd rumor about their plot or character roster.
Returning readers will notice that we've removed some films and shows, such as The Fantastic Four: First Steps and X-Men 97 season 2, from this guide. We'll be moving them to our Marvel Phase 6 hub as this duo (and many other productions) will arrive after Thunderbolts, i.e. the final Marvel Phase 5 project. We'll add them back in if any of them receive a release date before mid-2025.
Marvel Phase 5: every upcoming movie and TV show
Here's a brief rundown of every Marvel Phase 5 movie and TV series that'll be released between now and May 2025:
Agatha All Along (September 18, 2024)
Eyes of Wakanda (expected 2024)
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (expected 2024)
Captain America: Brave New World (February 14, 2025)
Daredevil: Born Again (March 2025)
Thunderbolts* (May 2, 2025)
Ironheart (expected before mid-2025)
Marvel Phase 5 movies
Captain America: Brave New World
Release date: February 14, 2025
Director: Julius Onah
Main cast: Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford, Danny Ramirez, Tim Blake Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Shira Haas, Liv Tyler, Xosha Roquemore, and Carl Lumbly
Captain America: Brave New World, whose title has ties to a shocking Marvel comic series, will see Mackie return as Sam Wilson/Cap 2.0. He'll be joined by Ford, who'll portray Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross/Red Hulk, the role held by William Hurt until his death in March 2022. Ramirez and Lumbly reprise their roles as Joaquin Torres and Isaiah Bradley from Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
Additionally, Tim Blake Nelson's Samuel Sterns/The Leader and Liv Tyler's Betty Ross also make their first MCU appearances since 2008's The Incredible Hulk. On the newcomer front, Esposito revealed he's played Seth Voelker (aka Sidewinder, aka the Serpent Society's leader) at Comic-Con 2024, while Marvel.com confirmed Haas is playing Ruth Bat-Seraph, a former Black Widow. The identity of Roquemore's character is currently unknown.
Brave New World's first trailer arrived in early July and teased plenty of details about its plot. Not only does it look like it'll follow in The Winter Soldier's political thriller footsteps, but it also teased Ross trying to get Wilson to help him rebuild The Avengers and Ross' transformation into Red Hulk. Oh, and it has ties to Eternals, with various nations set to battle it out for the adamantium (yep, that precious metal) encased in Tiamut (you know, the deceased Celestial that's been sticking out of the ocean since 2021...).
Thunderbolts*
Release date: May 2, 2025
Director: Jake Schreier
Main cast: Sebastian Stan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Olga Kurylenko, Wyatt Russell, Hannah-John Kamen, Lewis Pullman, and Geraldine Viswanathan
Billed as an anti-hero Avengers-style film, Thunderbolts* (don't ask about the astericks) will be the final Marvel Phase 5 flick. The MCU movie finally rode out its creative storm to start filming in late March before wrapping in mid-June.
Stan's Bucky Barnes, Dreyfus' Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Pugh's Yelena Belova, Harbour's Red Guardian, Kurylenko's Taskmaster, Russell's US Agent, and Kamen's Ghost are all set to feature. Newcomer wise, Viswanathan will reportedly play Fontaine's right-hand person, while Top Gun: Maverick's Lewis Pullman is playing Bob Reynolds/Sentry.
A brief sizzle reel, which teased the dynamics at play between the movie's dysfunctional ensemble of anti-heroes and reformed villains, was shown to Comic-Con 2024 attendees. Unfortunately, it'll be a while before any footage is released to the public.
Marvel Phase 5 TV shows
Agatha All Along
Release date: September 18, 2024
Directors: Jac Schaeffer
Main cast: Kathryn Hahn, Aubrey Plaza, Joe Locke, Patti LuPone, Sasheer Zamata, Ali Ahn, Maria Dizzia, Paul Adelstein, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Debra Jo Rupp
This Marvel Phase 5 dark comedy musical, which comprises nine episodes, sees Kathryn Hahn reprise her beloved WandaVision role as Agatha Harkness. We got our first glimpse at it in a behind-the-scenes featurette in December 2023 ahead of Marvel confirming Agatha All Along's release date in mid-May.
Agatha All Along's first trailer, which you can watch above, debuted in July and confirmed reports that the titular witch (with her reluctant coven allies in tow) will embark on a quest to reach The Witches' Road and navigate its dangers to reacquire her powers. It looks incredibly spooky, too, which speaks to Marvel's TV chief Brad Winderbaum telling episode 2 of the Official Marvel Podcast that it'll be "a Marvel brand of scary. It's a Halloween show, there are deadly stakes in the series, it's a fun ride, but it's a dangerous one". For more on what lies in store for Agatha and company, read our Agatha All Along hub.
Eyes of Wakanda
Release date: expected 2024
Director: Todd Harris
Main cast: TBC
A surprise Marvel Phase 5 announcement, Eyes of Wakanda is a Black Panther Disney Plus spin-off that'll apparently debut this year. Its logline reads as follows: "Throughout Wakandan history, brave warriors have been tasked to travel the world retrieving dangerous vibranium artefacts. This is their story."
According to Winderbaum (via CBR.com), it'll comprise four episodes, has been in development since 2021, Marc Bernardin (Star Trek: Picard) has written two entries, and it'll be an anthology show in the mold of What If...?. Speaking to Men's Health, Winderbaum also confirmed Eyes of Wakanda will slot seamlessly onto the Sacred Timeline and, as he told the Official Marvel Podcast episode 2, be the first Marvel Studios animated project that'll "tie directly into the MCU".
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
Release date: TBC
Director: TBC
Main cast: TBC
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, formerly known as Spider-Man: Freshman Year – which isn't canon in the MCU – follows Peter Parker during his high school days. Based on official images shown at various comic-con events, Norman Osborn will be Peter's main mentor and multiple villains will show up, including Doc Ock, Chameleon, Scorpion, and Rhino.
Tom Holland isn't expected to voice the character, but Charlie Cox will supposedly lend his vocals as Daredevil, which muddies the canonicity waters. Cox has also claimed it'll air in November (per the Marvel Studios Spoilers Sub-Reddit). Oh, and MCU fansite Nexus Point News suggests a trailer is being readied, which might be debuted at D23 Expo 2024 in early August.
Speaking on the Official Marvel Podcast #2, Winderbaum said: "The showrunner is Jeff Trammel, who made a show called Craig of the Creek, which was a kids cartoon that spent seasons in the connected backyards of this neighborhood and had a whole mythology that grew out of it, and characters you really grew to care for over the course of the series. He's amped that up in such a major way playing with characters like, not just Peter Parker, but also Nico Minoru, Lonnie Lincoln – who's my personal favorite – and Harry Osborn and others who really flesh out this teenage ensemble."
Daredevil: Born Again
Release date: March 2025
Directors: Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson
Main cast: Charlie Cox, Vincent D'Onofrio, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Jon Bernthal, Ayelet Zuhrer, and Wilson Bethel
Daredevil: Born Again was in serious trouble after Marvel decided to give its a near-total overhaul in October 2023. However, our faith in Daredevil's MCU TV show was restored a few weeks later, with Dario Scardapane (The Punisher, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan) confirmed as its new head writer, and Moorhead and Benson (Loki season 2, Moon Knight) directing it.
The Marvel Phase 5 series is now a pseudo-sequel to Daredevil on Netflix, with numerous actors returning to play the same characters. That includes Cox, who returned as the titular vigilante in MCU projects Spider-Man: No Way Home, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and Echo, and D'Onofrio, who showed up in Hawkeye and Echo.
Filming wrapped in mid-April, but not before leaked Daredevil: Born Again footage had Marvel fans fearing for a beloved character. Per Winderbaum, Born Again will also be "similar to X-Men 97" with how it's reviving a beloved TV show with a modern twist. Cox has confirmed he'll be at this year's D23 Expo (per The Cosmic Circus) to promote the show, so expect a teaser and official release date to be announced shortly.
Ironheart
Release date: sometime in 2025
Directors: Samantha Bailey and Angela Barnes
Main cast: Dominique Thorne and Anthony Ramos
This Marvel Phase 5 TV show will see Thorne's Riri Williams/Ironheart star in her own MCU project, which is slated to arrive sometime in 2025. It's been written by Chinaka Hodge (Snowpiercer) and Black Panther director Ryan Coogler is one of Ironheart's executive producers.
Ramos (In The Heights) will play Parker Robbins, aka The Hood, who specializes in dark magic. There are rumors Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) will portray Mephisto, a previously rumored WandaVision villain. Elden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story) and Anji White (per Deadline) are also reportedly part of the cast. Hopefully, we'll learn more about these characters and Ironheart's plot at D23 Expo.
Marvel Phase 6: every announced movie so far
Marvel Phase 5 is the primary focus of this guide. However, if you want some details on every confirmed Marvel Phase 6 movie and TV show, here's a brief rundown on what's coming post-Phase 5.
With the comic titan altering its Multiverse Saga plans following the 2023 Hollywood strikes and after Marvel fired Kang actor Jonathan Majors in late 2023, the headline news is that Avengers 5 is now known as Avengers: Doomsday. One of nine huge announcements that wowed us at Comic-Con 2024, it'll see none other than Robert Downey Jr return to the MCU as one of Marvel's legendary villains in Doctor Doom. He'll also show up in Avengers: Secret Wars, which might bring the curtain down on MCU Phase 6.
Before those two Avengers movies potentially bookend the Multiverse Saga, though, we expect numerous other projects will be released. Here's a complete list on what we expect to see between July 2025 and May 2027; the latter date being when Secret Wars is supposed to arrive:
The Fantastic Four: First Steps – July 25, 2025
Blade – November 7, 2025
Avengers: Doomsday – May 1, 2026
Avengers: Secret Wars – May 7, 2027
Armor Wars – TBC
Spider-Man 4 – TBC
Marvel Zombies – TBC
Untitled Vision TV series – TBC
What If...? season 3 – TBC
Wonder Man – TBC
X-Men 97 season 2 – TBC
For more Marvel-based content, find out how to watch the Marvel movies in order. Alternatively, read our X-Men movies in order article, Spider-Man movies in order guide, and Marvel movies ranked piece.
