Kevin Feige Says Marvel Has Movies Planned 'All the Way Up to 2042,' Including a Major X-Men Push and Live-Action Miles Morales

Marvel has mapped retired its movie plans up to 2042, workplace brag Kevin Feige has said, hinting astatine a "streamlined, simplified" beingness post-Avengers: Secret Wars, a large propulsion for the caller X-Men, and plans to yet unveil a live-action Miles Morales.

Speaking to Chinese outlet Watching Hollywood during a caller circuit of Shanghai, Feige described this year's Avengers: Doomsday and adjacent year's Avengers: Secret Wars arsenic a decision to storylines that started earlier the MCU itself (such arsenic the fates of immoderate archetypal X-Men). At the aforesaid time, Feige besides contrasted Secret Wars with the climactic Avengers: Endgame, suggesting that 2027's blockbuster would enactment arsenic a caller opening for the franchise, arsenic good arsenic a decision of the Multiverse saga.

"We privation to bash 2 things," Feige began (via instrumentality translation). "First, to bring immoderate storylines to a close, those that started agelong earlier Iron Man, including the archetypal X-Men characters. Second, to simultaneously acceptable the signifier for the future.

"Avengers: Endgame was genuinely an end, and since then, we've tried and experimented with galore caller things. But [Secret Wars] is simply a beginning. It volition found a streamlined, simplified, azygous beingness that audiences tin support up with. Some things volition beryllium familiar, but many, galore things volition beryllium wholly new."

Feige said that the caller don't-call-it-a-reboot post-Secret Wars MCU volition hopefully pull a "new procreation of audiences" to Marvel, thing that tallies with past comments by Feige that, 1 day, the franchise volition yet bring successful caller versions of existing heroes specified arsenic Iron Man. For now, though, Marvel seems to person 1 large marque successful caput to pb the adjacent saga: the X-Men.

"Fundamentally, the X-Men volition beryllium astatine its core," Feige said. "Acquiring the X-Men rights isn't conscionable about... for example, Wolverine is an outstanding character, and we were capable to squad him up with Deadpool, which is great. But the X-Men are acold much than conscionable Wolverine, acold much than the archetypal team; fundamentally, it's a universe, a multi-stage saga. Much of that is what we're moving towards."

In different words, don't expect Jake Schreier's upcoming X-Men movie to beryllium a one-and-done matter (although, honestly, this ever seemed a distant possibility). Instead, the X-Men dependable similar they'll signifier the bedrock of Marvel's storytelling successful the post-Secret Wars era, which seems fitting, since the adjacent signifier volition beryllium known arsenic the Mutant Saga.

"We were conscionable successful a Marvel Studios gathering room, readying movies each the mode up to 2042," Feige revealed. "Whether we tin marque it to 2042? Who knows? Will it beryllium those movies? Who knows? But this is however we attack and program the immense magnitude of imaginable stories successful the comics. We're perpetually changing, perpetually evolving, but having immoderate guidance helps america enactment much purposefully… particularly with X-Men — it's already had 10 movies, immoderate very, precise good, immoderate I deliberation haven't lived up to expectations — however bash we program the Mutant Saga successful a precise expansive way?"

Marvel is acceptable to marque a splash astatine this weekend's San Diego Comic-Con, returning to Hall H for the archetypal clip successful 2 years up of this month's hugely-anticipated Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and this December's Avengers: Doomsday. Fans are hoping that, alongside much details connected some of those, Feige volition assistance the lid connected much of Marvel's aboriginal roadmap — possibly not up until 2042, but astatine slightest for the adjacent fewer years.

Currently, Marvel has not officially announced a motorboat program for thing beyond December 2027's Avengers: Secret Wars, though it has acknowledged that its X-Men reboot and Black Panther 3 are successful the readying stages. Other projects waiting successful the wings see a long-gestating Nova task (now retooled arsenic a movie alternatively than a Disney+ series), and an ambition to yet marque a Shang-Chi 2.

What other could beryllium connected Marvel's roadmap, starring up to 2042? While galore classical characters consciousness similar they've tally their people (it would beryllium a astonishment to spot Captain America, Ant-Man oregon Captain Marvel get further standalone films aft the fiscal show of Brave New World, Quantumania and The Marvels), others inactive consciousness similar they person immoderate state near successful the tank.

It would not beryllium a astonishment to spot Marvel yet marque a Doctor Strange 3, oregon a Thor 5. I could besides spot Marvel taking different accidental connected the Fantastic Four, adjacent if their archetypal outing felt a small underwhelming. And past there's the hugely fashionable quality of Wanda Maximoff, whose eventual instrumentality feels inevitable. Could we yet get a solo Scarlet Witch movie?

Most obvious, of course, is much Spider-Man. Sony and Marvel are intelligibly keen, and Tom Holland has hinted helium expects to instrumentality for astatine slightest 1 much Spider-Man film, with plans to yet manus implicit his webbing capsules to a younger replacement. Holland precocious suggested helium would beryllium keen to walk the baton to a live-action Miles Morales — and clearly, this is simply a quality connected Feige's radar, too.

"One of the amusive things astir this concern is that we're ever dreaming and coming up with ideas," Feige said erstwhile asked astir the character. "There's a enactment successful Spider-Man: No Way Home wherever Electro says, 'Somewhere there's bound to beryllium a achromatic Spider-Man.' Audiences astir the satellite were thrilled due to the fact that they knew it mightiness beryllium a hint astatine Miles.

"The bully quality is, Sony has the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse series, which are precise fashionable and excellent, and Beyond the Universe is coming retired adjacent year. But yes, we decidedly person plans, and I deliberation a live-action Spider-Man movie has this destiny: to adhd Miles sometime aft the Spider-Verse bid ends. We've been reasoning and discussing much Spider-Man adventures, careless of agreements oregon contracts. My accumulation partner, Amy Pascal, is already moving connected it, and we've had in-depth discussions astir what the adjacent two, three, four, and 5 Spider-Man movies mightiness beryllium about."

See you successful 2042 for Spider-Man 9, then? In the meantime, beryllium definite to support an oculus connected IGN this play for everything from Marvel astatine SDCC, including each of the large announcements from Hall H arsenic they happen.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social