Shortly after Avengers: Endgame became the highest-grossing movie ever , Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige announced the next few films and TV series that will make up Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe at San Diego Comic-Con He promised a solo film for Black Widow starring Scarlett Johansson, an Eternals film starring Angelina Jolie, a Shang-Chi movie starring Simu Liu and a Blade reboot with Mahershala Ali. 69 In October 2014, Feige said the opportunity "certainly" existed for characters in the Netflix series to appear in Avengers: Infinity War 20 In March 2015, Loeb spoke on the ability for the Netflix series to crossover with the films and the ABC series, saying, "As it is now, in the same way that our films started out as self-contained and then by the time we got to The Avengers, it became more practical for Captain America to do a little crossover into Thor 2 and for Bruce Banner to appear at the end of Iron Man 3. We have to earn that. On the heels of the mega-success of " Avengers: Endgame ," Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige revealed the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe - 23 films and counting, including the latest movie, "Spider-Man: Far From Home." Despite missing a few movies, the character has appeared in all three Iron Man films, as well as Avengers: Infinity War, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Avengers: Endgame.The studio's star-studded presentation at San Diego Comic-Con detailed its plans for the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Phase 4,” which follows the Infinity Saga” that includes every Marvel Studios movie dating back to 2008's Iron Man.” It's sure to be a grand vision following the most recent events of Avengers: Endgame” and Spider-Man: Far From Home.” With this announcement, IGN stated that the spin-offs are "the latest example of what we can refer to as "the Avengers effect" in Hollywood, as studios work to build interlocking movie universes." 363 Sony chose not to replicate the Marvel Studios model of introducing individual characters first before bringing them together in a team-up film, instead making the Spider-Man adversaries the stars of future films. The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is an American media franchise and shared universe centered on a series of superhero films , independently produced by Marvel Studios and based on characters that appear in American comic books published by Marvel Comics The franchise also includes comic books, short films, television series, and digital series.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe's Avengers: Infinity War, which will debut in May, may feature more than 70 characters Marvel Studios is also looking beyond the Avengers in movies like Black Panther , which hits theaters this week. Marvel studios president Kevin Feige also confirmed upcoming movies involving the Fantastic Four and the X-Men's mutants — characters who were previously owned by Fox, but which now fall under Marvel's purview thanks to the recent Disney-Fox merger He also confirmed that the sequels for Black Panther and Captain Marvel, are in development. Unlike the existing entries in the MCU, where there was a major divide between the film and television properties, it looks as though the stories will fit together closely, with projects like The Falcon and the Winter Soldier picking up after Avengers: Endgame, Hawkeye exploring some of the character's time as Ronin, and with the events in WandaVision leading right into Doctor Strange 2. Feige and Disney CEO Bob Iger previously said the MCU films and Disney+ series would intertwine, and now we know how that looks.