This past San Diego Comic-Con and D23 really told the future of Marvel. Once announcing projects way ahead in the future and making that extensive showy calendar for all to see, Marvel Studios unveiled no such thing. For film, they didn’t reveal any new films at Comic-Con other than the new title for the fifth “Avengers” film. Likewise, during the D23 Disney Expo, Marvel Television didn’t unveil any new titles and only reiterated that “Daredevil: Born Again” and “Ironheart” would arrive in 2025.
So changes in strategy are afoot at Marvel, and they were echoed by Marvel exec Brad Winderbaum, who recently said the company would be “developing more than we make.”
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“This is part of the new Marvel; we should talk about this. Because at Marvel, everything has a spotlight on it, and everyone gets super excited, and we want to get it right.”
Translation: Many new films and TV series are in development, but none will be officially announced until they are ready. So all we know for Marvel Television in 2026 is “Wonder Man” and “Vision Quest,” which will be shot later this year. That’s all we know about the future other than Winderbaum admitting that a “Nova” series is in development but not greenlit yet.
In another interview with Entertainment Weekly this week, discussing the upcoming Marvel series “Agatha All Along,” Winderbaum further explained the company’s new TV strategy and revealed that their television rethink means they might produce multiple seasons of shows rather than the one-off limited series they’ve been producing in the past.
“We are thinking about television really more like traditional television where they could last for multiple seasons, where we can see the characters brew in the culture for hopefully many years,” he explained.
“One thing we are doing is we’re developing a lot of shows now simultaneously,” he continued, revealing more. “So, in a way, we’re making television more in a traditional style where we are going to write multiple pilots and show bibles before we decide what we want to produce and actually bring to the screen, which gives us an opportunity to experiment and also to plan all sorts of different Marvel sandboxes.”
The new rumor du jour is that Marvel currently has five new TV series in development. Marvel has already admitted that “Nova” is one of them. The other four are apparently—according to the rumors anyway—a second season of “Hawkeye,” a second season of “Moon Knight,” the “Punisher,” and the “Blonde Phantom,” reportedly being developed by Scarlett Johansson.
Meanwhile, in one last Winderbaum interview with EW, the Marvel executive teased “Daredevil: Born Again” and said some of the violence and action would be some of the fiercest ever seen on screen.
“I’ll tell you, some of the most brutal action we’ve ever brought to the screen is coming in ‘Daredevil: Born Again,’ which isn’t a horror show, but really it packs a lot of power, and there’s a lot of visceral action, to say the least,” he explained.
Lastly, on Wednesday’s episode of the Official Marvel Podcast, the creative said that “What…If” season completes a trilogy and discussed the tonal shifts you’ll see on television and the layers between broad genres.
“It feels like the completion of a trilogy,” Winderbaum said about the final “What…If?” season that currently has no premiere date. “It takes us to places that you’d never expect. It goes beyond the first two seasons in its exploration of the multiverse. It pulls in characters that are very unexpected and has what I think is an extremely moving and very fulfilling culmination for Uatu the Watcher.”
As for the tonal differences among shows, Winderbaum gave a reasonable explanation about how four separate Marvel films all fall under the broader umbrella of horror but are all different because of the unique elements and flavors the filmmakers and storytellers behind them want to bring to them.
“I think that it goes back to the filmmaker’s intent,” he said. “The horror on screen in ‘Agatha’ is going to be different than the horror on screen in ‘Marvel Zombies,’ is going to be different than the horror on screen in ‘Blade.’ It was different than the horror on screen in ‘Moon Knight.’ It really depends on the vision of the filmmaker on what horror cues you’re pulling from. And that’s not just unique to horror. It’s unique to any genre we’re playing with. Obviously, there’s many different ways to tell a story.”
So, in short, lots of Marvel TV is on the way, but beyond 2026 for film and television? Fans will just have to stay patient.