Marvel Phase 5: new MCU movies and Disney Plus shows plus known release dates (2025)

It's strange to write that Marvel Phase 5 will end soon. The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)'s latest line-up of movies and TV shows only began in February 2023 with Ant-Man 3, but we'll be bidding it farewell once Thunderbolts storms into theaters in mid-2025.

There are two more films and a number of Disney Plus series that'll arrive before Phase 5 makes way for Phase 6, though – and you can read all about them in this guide. Indeed, we've rounded up the latest official news, plus the odd rumor or five, on every MCU Phase 5 movie and show yet to be released. So, if you need more details on their release dates, cast rosters, plot specifics, and more, you need not look anywhere else.

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:

• 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.Nelson's Samuel Sterns/The Leader and 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 about the film's plot. Not only does it look like it'll follow in The Winter Soldier's political thriller footsteps, but also showed Ross asking Wilson to help him rebuild The Avengers and Ross' transformation into Red Hulk. It has ties to Eternals, too, with various nations set to battle it out for the adamantium – yep, that precious metal – encased in the corpse of 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) is expected to 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.

Thunderbolts' first trailer dropped in mid-September; the film's first official footage arriving a month after Thunderbolts' D23 Expo 2024 teaser was leaked online. Both trailers gave us good looks at its paranoia thriller vibes, a first glimpse of Pullman's Bob, the uneasy alliances at play between the titular group's characters, and even a surprise in the form of Fontaine being unveiled as the new owner of Avengers Tower. Well, if you believe what some MCU fans are saying, anyway.

Marvel Phase 5 TV shows

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 Marvel's Head of Television Brad 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: expected 2024
Director: TBC
Main cast: Hudson Thames and Colman Domingo

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. According to the website of Nic Gregory, an artist who worked on the animated series, it'll arrive in November. That ties into comments made by Daredevil actor Charlie Cox, who'll voice The Man Without Fear here and who claims it'll also air in November (per the Marvel Studios Spoilers Sub-Reddit).

Marvel hasn't confirmed it'll debut that month but, at D23 Expo 2024, the studio revealed Thames and Domingo will voice Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Norman Osborn. Per IGN, a whole host of supporting Spider-Man characters will feature in the series, with showrunner Jeff Trammell later telling the Official Marvel Podcast that Amadeus Cho and Pearl Pangan are two such supporting characters. The image in IGN's X/Twitter post confirmed we'll get the odd Marvel superhero cameo (Doctor Strange is also set to appear) in this project, too.

Speaking on a different episodes of the Official Marvel Podcast, Winderbaum elaborated further on what fans can expect "The showrunner is Jeff Trammel," he said, "Who made a show calledCraig 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. As part of an 85th birthday celebration video, Marvel revealed an official first look at Born Again in late August, but we only glimpsed about three seconds worth of footage in said video.

Ironheart

Release date: expected 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 next year. 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. Like Daredevil: Born Again, Ironheart's first-look footage was teased in Marvel's 85th anniversary celebration video. Apart from Williams flying through some Chicago traffic in her Iron Man-inspired supersuit, though, we're none the wiser about its story.

Marvel Phase 6: every announced movie so far

Marvel Phase 5 is the primary focus of this guide. However, if you want details on every confirmed Marvel Phase 6 movie and TV show, here's a brief rundown on what's coming from late 2025 onwards.

With the comic titan altering its Multiverse Saga plans following the 2023 Hollywood strikes and Marvel's firing of Kang actor Jonathan Majors, 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, Robert Downey Jr. will return 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, 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 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 best Marvel movies piece.

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