Among so many series, movie, Christmas special and cameolately following the footsteps of our favorite Marvel characters has become almost an odyssey. Multiverses that for years were parallels and lately they are intermingling They lead us, in many cases, to confusion; and the extension of all the plots that either intertwine or move away from the main one has the most veteran fans of the franchise (those of us who were used to only having to follow one film a year), to say the least, overwhelmed.
First of all… what phase of the MCU are we in?
Phase 5 from the MCU (Marvel Cinematic UniverseUCM in Spanish) started in February 2023 with the premiere of «Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania«, third installment of the saga of Scott Lang and his partner Hope van Dyne. Only three months later we saw the premiere of the third «Guardians of the Galaxy«, and throughout the summer the first series of the phase was broadcast, «Secret Invasion«. In the last one we saw Samuel L. Jackson again at the head of SHIELD, in the role of Nick Furya character missing since “Spiderman: Far From Home” (although it is true that we could hear him in seven episodes of “What would happen if…?«).
This same series premiered its second season in December, after also second installment of «Loki« but before the premiere of «Threw out«. The last film in the franchise was «The Marvels” in November. We carry, therefore, more than six months disconnected from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
When will we return to what is already the greatest saga in audiovisual history?
Sooner rather than later it arrives in movie theaters «Deadpool and Wolverine«: July 26, to be exact. This is the third time we see Wade Wilson captaining a movie under his name, this time in the company of Wolverine by Hugh Jackman. After the summer it will be released «Agatha All Along«; a series that Starts its broadcast in Septemberjust in time to reach «spooky season» and become one of the best fictions of the fall. For this 2024 The premieres of “Eyes of Wakanda” and “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” are also projected; two series for which the broadcast start date, number of chapters or cast are still unknown.
Marvel offices have a problem since it was announced “Captain America: Brave New World”. The film, which was originally going to be called “New World Order”, was seriously criticized for seeming to be inciting the Jewish conspiracy since in it we are introduced to the mutant Sabra, a kind of “Captain Israel.” After the events of October 7, and given the response on networks, Several restructurings of the film have been carried outin addition to re-recordings and editsin order to brand new a film that is as conscientious and least problematic as possible.
Although for this reason its release date has been moved and its approach on several occasions, for the moment it seems that the fourth of “Captain America” (unfortunately without Chris Evans, after what happened in “Endgame”) will hit theaters in February 2025.
The arrival of “Thunderbolts” It is one of the most anticipated, and it seems that she will be in charge of closing the fifth phase as far as the films are concerned. As a “Suicide Squad”, this film will bring together several of the antiheroes presented in the latest narratives to form a team at the service of the American government. We will see the return of Sebastian Stan in the skin of Bucky Barnes; by Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova or of Wyatt Russell and his John Walker/US Agent. We will also meet characters who are coming out of comics for the first time, such as Ghost (Ava Starr, played by Hannah John-Kamen) or Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (whom Julia Louis-Dreyfus will face).
They don’t have a release date yet…
Both the new series of «Daredevil» (which was officially introduced into the universe in «Spider-man: No Way Home») as the debut of «Ironheart» (the young Riri Williams was introduced to us in «Black Panther: Wakanda Forever», but we have not heard from her since then) They will arrive on Disney+ throughout next 2025. With these two series the fifth stage in the MCU will conclude, thus closing another great cycle for the studio and its distributor.
The sixth phase will startas planned, with the re-interpretation of “The Fantastic Four”well into the year 2025.
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