With the creation of Disney+ and the huge success of the “Infinity Saga” films, Marvel Studios was tasked with continuing to build on that momentum with a new plan to branch out to make more films and shows.

Throw in a pandemic, Hollywood strikes and a massive business course correction to focus on profitability; we’ve seen Marvel Studios hit many bumps in the road since the heights of “Avengers: Endgame”.   Creating so many shows and films at the same time, caused so many problems for Marvel Studios, as their attention was spread across to many projects, reducing the overall quality of the product they were creating, while also burning out audiences with too many releases, in addition to spending billions of dollars on new films and shows.

With the return of Bob Iger as the CEO of the Walt Disney Company, he quickly set about a plan to drastically reduce the amount of content being created, not just at Marvel Studios, but across the entire company, in addition to other cuts, to try to save billions of dollars.

This resulted in Marvel Studios hitting the pause button and readdressing its plans, resulting in many shows and films either being cancelled or delayed.    In 2023 and 2024, we saw the release schedule reworked, with just two live-action series and one movie hitting our screens in 2024.

Last week, Marvel Studios released a new teaser trailer highlighting all of the new shows heading to Disney+ in the year ahead, which includes three live-action shows, “Daredevil: Born Again”, “Ironheart” and “Wonder Man”, plus multiple animated shows such as “Marvel Zombies”, “Your Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man” and “Eyes Of Wakanda”.  Plus, there are three movies hitting cinemas in 2025, “Captain America: Brave New World”, “Thunderbolts*” and “The Fantastic Four: First Steps”.

This means there will be nine different Marvel Studios projects out in 2025, which feels like a step back towards having too much content being released.  But during a recent interview at this past weekend’s D23 Brazil event, Kevin Feige revealed the plan for Marvel moving forward:

“I think I can say that we are back to normal, more or less. In the past, we had four films and four series a year, and I think we’ll go down to two films, three series — but that won’t be the case for 2025, specifically. It turns out that we’ve been working on these titles for a long time, and they just happen to be ready for release now. We are very excited.”

All of the Disney+ shows coming out in 2025 were announced many years ago, and while the animated projects will reach a much smaller audience as mainstream Marvel fans will likely skip these because they are “cartoons”, it’s still a stacked lineup. 

Marvel is also looking to wrap up the Multiverse Saga in the next couple of years, with “Avengers: Doomsday” hitting cinemas in 2026 and “Avengers: Secret Wars” a year later.  Plus, Marvel has confirmed that another “Spider-Man” film with Tom Holland will drop between those major tentpole Avenger movies.

“When you set out to make two Avengers films – they are colossal, gigantic, and consume you completely. We have already announced a Spider-Man film that will be released between Doomsday and Secret Wars .”

We also know that Marvel is going to film a second season of “Daredevil: Born Again” and another “WandaVision” spin-off series featuring the White Vision in 2025.  Plus, another season of “X-Men ’97” are in the works.  They will likely all hit Disney+ in 2026.  Marvel is also looking to make more “multi-season” shows, rather than just one-off shows like we’ve seen released so far on Disney+. 

Roger’s Take:   The line-up for 2025 does feel rather bloated, but since half of those shows are animated, they won’t attract the same attention.  I believe that Marvel is looking to drop most of the shows that have been in development for many years, to clear the deck, so they can get the Multiverse Saga over with since audiences haven’t clicked with so many random stories involving lesser-known characters, plus the added confusion of so many universes coming together.   Sometimes less is more, and I think Marvel knows that they need to make less, but they’ve got this stack of shows that they greenlighted in a different era and need just to get them out.   So they can go into the next phase with a clearer picture.

Do you think that two films and three shows a year is enough?  Let me know on social media!

Roger Palmer

Roger has been a Disney fan since he was a kid and this interest has grown over the years. He has visited Disney Parks around the globe and has a vast collection of Disney movies and collectibles. He is the owner of What's On Disney Plus & DisKingdom. Email: Roger@WhatsOnDisneyPlus.com Twitter: Twitter.com/RogPalmerUK Facebook: Facebook.com/rogpalmeruk

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