Kevin Feige Says More Marvel Phase 4 News Coming Soon
In a new interview with Total Film for their Thor: Love and Thunder issue releasing Thursday, June 23, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige teased the plans for the Marvel Cinematic Universe beyond Phase 4, You heard that right, the end of Phase 4 is already closer than you might think. Not even a year after Black Widow was finally released, we’re already looking to Phase 5 and whatever else this phase has been the start of and leading up to. Phase 4 only encompasses up to the end of 2023. Now, I’m kind of surprised. When Phase 4 was announced at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019, it didn’t feel like the entire Phase, just everything that was solidly in place. Which is, I guess, kind of true considering 2021’s Disney+ Day announcements. To me, I thought it was going to be a more relaxed, if bloated phase. That could have described it had the projects intended for 2020 been released then. Did I think it would go into 2024? Maybe.
At least in the interview, Feige says that by the end of the phase the direction will be clearer, surely shoring everything up. He also states we’ll be hearing more in the upcoming months. Total Film’s snippet didn’t explicitly say where, but I’m sure to many it was obvious. Next month is the first in-person, full-health, and in-season San Diego Comic-Con since the aforementioned 2019 event, and then D23 is in September. Even Deadline picked up on that. My hope is however much is announced at each event is grand yet balanced, that they both have substantial unveilings and one isn’t favored over the other. I’m expecting Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s first public promotion to start with a Love and Thunder-attached teaser at the earliest, or it being packaged with images and more at SDCC at the latest, with some form of trailer released at D23. This might be obvious and low-stakes, but it’s the farthest one any of us has the most idea of where they are and what they could show. After Wakanda Forever, we’ll have the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, Ironheart, Armor Wars, Secret Invasion, and The Marvels as far as what’s dated and progresses the Phase, along with plenty that isn’t. The MCU has a very bright future ahead of it, and the excitement only builds further.
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Source(s): Total Film, Deadline