Two new ‘Avengers’ films coming to Marvel’s slate

Actors Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige pose for a photograph through the handprint ceremony on the TCL Chinese language Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. April 23, 2019. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

SAN DIEGO, July 23 (Reuters) – Two new “Avengers” motion pictures will attain theaters in 2025, Walt Disney Co’s (DIS.N) Marvel Studios introduced on Saturday at a presentation to followers highlighting components of its upcoming slate of superhero TV reveals and movies.

“Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” and “Avengers: Secret Wars” will wrap up section six of the massively profitable Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige stated from the stage on the annual Comedian-Con popular culture conference in San Diego.

Phases 4 by means of six will likely be referred to as the Multiverse Saga, he stated.

The bulletins drew loud cheers and applause from a crowd of greater than 6,000 in a packed conference corridor, although Feige offered few particulars. “Avengers: Endgame,” launched in 2019, is the second-highest grossing film of all time, and MCU movies have generated greater than $25 billion in world field workplace gross sales.

Feige additionally revealed plans for an 18-episode TV sequence referred to as “Daredevil: Born Once more,” which can stream on Disney+ within the spring of 2024, and a “Thunderbolts” film scheduled for July 2024.

The studio spotlighted a few of the nearer-term movies in Marvel’s section 5, together with subsequent February’s debut of the third “Ant-Man and The Wasp” movie, subtitled “Quantumania.”

“We lastly get to spend a while within the quantum realm,” which is “not at all times what you suppose it’s,” teased director Peyton Reed.

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” will delve deeper into the again tales of the film’s oddball characters, together with the gun-touting raccoon named Rocket, who director James Gunn described as “the saddest creature within the universe.”

Marvel ended the presentation with a take a look at “Black Panther: Wakanda Eternally,” a sequel to the 2018 blockbuster that starred Chadwick Boseman, who died of most cancers two years later.

“It feels monumental to be again in Wakanda,” stated Lupita Nyong’o, who reprises her function because the warrior Nakia within the sequel, due in theaters in November.

Director Ryan Coogler recalled watching scenes from the primary “Black Panther” with Boseman at an earlier Comedian-Con and the actor gripping his shoulder with pleasure.

“I promise you I can really feel his hand on me proper now,” Coogler stated. “His spirit, his ardour, his genius, his delight in his tradition, and the affect he made on his business, it will likely be felt ceaselessly.”

Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Modifying by William Mallard

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