While two-time Oscar winnerMahershala Aliwas revealed to be the new Bladeat Marvel Studios’ highly anticipated Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2019, fans will have to wait a bit to see him onscreen. Marvel Studios presidentKevin Feigetook the Hall H stage on Saturday to announce that with the release ofAvengers: EndgameandSpider-Man: Far from Home, the “Infinity Saga” is now complete. That consists of every movie made fromIron ManthroughFar from Home, which means it’s now time to enter a new era of MCU storytelling: Phase Four.
As part of Marvel’s Hall H panel, Feige announced the upcoming filmsBlack Widow,The Eternals,Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, andThor: Love and Thunderas well as the Disney+ limited seriesHawkeye,WandaVision,The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, andWhat If… ?As it turns out, this entire slate of movies and TV shows will complete Marvel’s Phase Four.
Collider’s own Steve Weintraub caught up with Feige backstage after Marvel’s Hall H panel this year, and Feige confirmed that the upcomingBladereboot willnotbe Part of Phase Four, which will consist of everything that was announced on Saturday:
“It is the complete Phase Four the way I announced the complete Phase Three five years ago—things can move, things can change as they did if you go back and look at what we talked about five years ago for Phase Three, but we’ve been working on this for quite a while and it’s pretty set. But there are always changes possible.”
So yes, that means all the films and Disney+ shows mentioned above is the complete Phase Four. For now. If you’ll recall, back when Marvel announced its complete Phase Three in 2014, it didn’t yet include bothSpider-Manmovies orAnt-Man and the Wasp, theInhumansmovie slated for November 2018 was later removed from the schedule, andAvengers: Infinity War – Part 1andPart 2were later renamedInfinity WarandAvengers: Endgame. As a result of adding twoSpider-Manmovies and anAnt-Mansequel, the release dates for the back half of Phase Three shifted a bit, but other than that Marvel stuck pretty closely to its schedule.
So that means Phase Four will only last two years (as opposed to the four-year Phase Three) and will end withThor 4and theHawkeyelimited series in 2021. It also means that confirmed sequels likeGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,Black Panther 2, andCaptain Marvel 2are still a ways off and won’t be coming in Phase Four, along with theBladereboot which so far only has Ali attached—no announced writer or director.
It’s interesting that Marvel’s Phase Four is only two years long, but itisthe first MCU phase to officially, fully include TV shows as an element. The Marvel Netflix shows and ABC series were never under Feige’s purview and thus were only tangentially connected to the MCU, but the Disney+ shows are being created with Feige and the Marvel Studios team overseeing everything, and he has explicitly stated that they will tie directly into the story being told in the films.
So to recap, here’s all the Marvel Phase Four movies and TV shows and when they’re being released, according to Feige:
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