The Marvel cinematographic universe is a cornucopia of superhero stories and villains that cover multiple deadlines. It is not surprising that Marvel Chief Kevin Feige has begun to integrate them into “phases” to compartmentalize all the content that comes out of the MCU, each phase now focuses on films and television programs within a certain period of time and a general story
The recently released Captain America: Brave New World and the next Marvel Thundolts are the two final films in phase 5, after which it comes to an end and then we enter phase 6, which covers 2025 to 2027. Marvel is quite good to block the launch dates, so we already have a full time to expect.
So what follows for Marvel phase 6? There are many films and television programs on the board, starting with The Fantastic Four: First Steps In July. We have gathered a summary of Marvel phase 6 so that when you are not busy gathering the BEST MARVEL LEGO SETSYou can crush yourself in the most comfortable place in your sofa and organize the launch dates in your calendar.
Now, here is everything you need to know about the next Marvel films and television programs Phase 6.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
- Release date: July 25, 2025
- Director: Matt Shakman
- Cast: Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and more
Marvel’s first entry on its phase six board is the fantastic four restart, The Fantastic Four: the first steps. This new shot comes with a new team composed of Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing.
Marvel’s first family will face one of the greatest comic threats such as the god Galactus (Ralph Ineson) and his herald, Surfer Silver (Julia Garner) threaten the earth. When Disney acquired 21st Century Fox, the hopes of a fantastic Four Redemption arch, but Kevin Feige arrived at Fantastic fans with an announcement in the Comic-Con 2019 of San Diego. And in the last six years, the restart met with updates, delays, steering switches, and now, finally and fortunately, a release date.
Although Marvel’s landscape loves a story of origin, this is not one of those. On the other hand, according to the official description of the film, it is “established against the vibrant backdrop of a retro-fouturist world inspired by the 1960s.” In addition, there are a lot of unleashed papers that we still have to discover with John Malkovich, Natasha Lyonne and Sarah Niles who register in Star. And thanks to a publication of Movie updates on Twitter/XAccording to reports, we know that production involves in November 2024.
Avengers: Doomsday
- Release date: May 1, 2026
- Director: Anthony and Joe Russo
- Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and more
The Russo brothers return to the MCU, signing not one, but two new Avengers films for phase six. And there are many Marvel crossovers with the new Avengers films that mark the return of the cast of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, as well as distribution names of the Five phase thunderbolts.
There is also the great news that Robert Downey Jr. returns to MCU in a new role like Doctor Doom. It is a big problem considering that his last appearance was in the last Avengers movie, in 2019. He could have called Endgame, but it was not the end for MCU or Downey Jr.
The launch of Doctor Doom also marks a monumental movement of the villain originally planned for this entry, Kang the Conqueror. The actor Jonathan Majors, who had to play Kang, was withdrawn from the film after a rule for reckless assault in third grade and harassment in 2023, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The consequences of Majors arrest meant that the film was also transformed from Avengers: The Kang Dynsty to Avengers: Doomsday.
We know that Downey Jr. assumes a new role in the universe, for which we have always known that Iron Man is, but apart from that, the plot is firmly secret.
Spider-Man 4
- Release date: July 24, 2026
- Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
- Cast: Tom Holland
Tom Holland has been perpetually busy bouncing the success of Spider-Man’s films and, although we have been waiting since 2021 for more goodness of Spidey, there has not been too much to continue.
We know that Spider-Man: No Way Home did not mark the end of the path to Spider-Man of Tom Holland, but we have been hanging in a cliff that ends for four years at this time. Fortunately, while appearing in The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon At the end of 2024, Holland confirmed: “It is happening.” Adding: “Next summer, we started to shoot. Everything is fine. Then, hopefully shoot in 2025 and reach our screens in 2026.
There have been rumors around a possible return of Andrew Garfield, although he confirmed in an interview with GQAlthough he knows that no one will believe what he says from now on, he has not been chosen in the next installment. Beyond the obvious return of Tom Holland, we don’t know much about the cast or plot. When we know more, you will know more.
Avengers: secret wars
- Release date: May 7, 2027
- Director: Anthony and Joe Russo
- Cast: Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and more
If you thought there was not much information about Avengers: Doomsday, let us introduce us to Avengers: Secret Wars, what you can say with confidence is the name of a movie that is coming out … and that is all.
But, we can speculate. Secret Wars will be a sequel to Doomsday, so the plot will continue in the history of Doctor Doom, the fantastic four and the other avengers. As for production, it has been beaten with some delays and some changes in the crew, especially that it is brought to Stephen McFeely as a writer. McFeely co -written Captain America’s films, as well as Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, so that is a great obtaining for production.
If we take a look at the comic series of the 1980s to inspire, there are many clues about the direction of the film. As for the villain, there is Dr. Doom, but there is also Galactus, who will debut in the fantastic four: the first steps at the beginning of phase six. We can expect to see safely seeing mass battles and adventures that save galaxies in Marvel’s true fashion.
Wakanda eyes
- Release date: August 6, 2025
- Episodes: 4
- Showrunner: TBA
- Cast: Winnie Harlow, Cress Williams, Steve Toussaint, Danai Gurira
After the success of the two Black Panther films, the MCU decided that it is time for a television series to deepen the Wakanda tradition. For this, they are focusing on Hatut Zaraze, a group of Wakanda warriors, in charge of special missions to recover vibranius artifacts throughout history.
This animated miniseries are tied much closer than other Marvel animation programs that have arrived before. In fact, it is the first animation that is placed in the main timeline, which is a big problem in the Marvel world.
Considering four episodes, the first of the television programs of phase six will fall in August of this year. And there is an impressive voice casting already announced with Patricia Belcher, Larry Gerron, Adam Gold, Lynn Whitfield, Jacques Colimon and Jona Xiao, all added to the cast mentioned above. Although a small advance was published during the D23 convention in August 2024, it did not reveal much.
Marvel Zombies
- Release date: October 3, 2025
- Episodes: 4
- Showrunner: ZEB wells
- Cast: Awkwafina, David Harbor, Simu Liu, Elizabeth Olsen, Randall Park and more
In 2021, the MCU launched an anthology series called What would happen if …? One of the episodes was called What would happen if … zombies? And that is what leads us to this phase six. As a spin-off (presumably non-canonical), an animated four-episodes miniseries called Marvel Zombies is on its way. There is a precedent for this, with a whole series of comics to seek inspiration.
For Marvel Zombies, the plot follows a group of survivors who now have to fight zombified versions of former superheroes and villains. Zeb Wells of Marvel Writing Fame, as well as Robot Chicken, is the main writer of this and some huge names join the cast. In addition to the actors mentioned above, there are also Florence Pugh, Hailee Steinfeld, Dominique Thorne, Iman Vellani and Todd Williams, who have joined MCU in recent years.
Marvel Zombies marks an excellent addition to the Marvel Animated Multiverse board and during D23, there was a quick look at Kate Bishop, Wenwu and Shang-Chi fighting some quite scary zombies.
Wonder Man
- Release date: December 2025
- Episodes: 8-10
- Showrunner: Andrew guest
- Cast: YAHYA ABDUL-MATEEN II, BEN KINGSLEY, DEMETRIUS GROSSE, ED HARRIS, JOSH GAD
Wonder Man is the next miniseries centered on Simon Williams of Marvel, a Hollywood actor with superhero powers that assumes the role of Wonder Man in a new film. So, essentially he is a wonderful man playing Wonder Man in Wonder Man.
Sometimes, during a phase launch, a title is put under the Marvel Spotlight banner, which means that they are focusing more on the character and less on the broader MCU timeline, and that is the direction that Wonder Man are taking. As a result, we would expect this to be a fairly autonomous story, although some cameos of the MCU unconditionals are not out of discussion … It will probably be Wong.
Although it is not the Showrunner, Destin Daniel Cretton, who was currently registered for a several years with Marvel and will undoubtedly be occupied by directing the next sequel to Spider-Man without a title, he created this program with Andrew Guest. While there have been some delays in production due to strikes, filming has wrapped, so a more definitive launch date may not be far away.
Certainly there has been a lot of cast ads with Yahya Abdul-Mateen II signed as Wonder Man himself, along with Ben Kingsley as Trevor Slatter, Demetrius Grosse as the brother of Grim Reaper, also known as Wonder Man’s brother, and Ed Harris as Simon Hollywood agent.
Vision search
- Release date: TBA 2026
- Episodes: TBA
- Showrunner: Terry Matalas
- Cast: Paul Bettany, James Spader, Todd Stashwick
The final entry into the Marvel Six Phase program is Vision Quest, a second Wandavision spin-off and, as expected, focused on the character, Vision. Fortunately, Paul Bettany will repeat the role, along with James Spader in his role as Ultron, both previously seen in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Although, according to the reports, it is not its official title, Vision Quest is what is currently known, and is aligned to mark the end of the trilogy with Wandavision and Agatha all the time before.
Vision is a quite powerful avenger, elaborated by Vibranium (the fictional Mcc metal that we mentioned in Wakanda’s eyes). While Vision met his disappearance in Avengers: Infinite War, not once but twice, was resurrected by his love Wanda in Wandavision.
As for the plot, we do not know much right now, but the official synopsis is short and sweet, “it continues to vision trying to recover its memory and humanity.”
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