https://www.marvel.com/articles/mov...s-coming-out-of-hall-h-at-san-diego-comic-con
Focusing attention mainly on the movies, with only mentions of TV series that get my attention:
First up in the next wave is
Black Widow in May 2020, which isn't a surprise since the movie has been filming for some time. Maybe that's why Feige chose to hold off on mentioning it until nearly the end, although that weirdly makes it the only one not in chronological order on this list.
Next is
Eternals in Nov. 2020, again a little unsurprising since we've been hearing development news for some time on this. It is a bit more surprising that they aren't moving faster on characters needing sequels, such as the next
Doctor Strange, which won't show up until May 2021. (Shang-Chi, a character I haven't heard of, shows up in his debut outing between these two films.)
Speaking of Strange, it's surprising that Wanda will be in his sequel film, only because her streaming series
WandaVision will debut just a month or two ahead of that. Usually there's a longer buffer time in between appearances of the characters. I like Wanda just fine, though, so it's not a complaint, just an observation.
While we're talking about streaming, I'm really intrigued by the animated
What If? series. I'm not sure how long an anthology series will hold general audiences' attention, but I'm always interested in parallel-universe fiction, particularly after Into the Spider-Verse. The first episode has been reported elsewhere as being "What if Peggy Carter got the Super Soldier Serum instead of Steve Rogers?" As someone who misses
Agent Carter, count me in!
The news on the fourth
Thor continues to be astonishing, first because Natalie Portman returns to the series (I thought she was missing from Ragnarok because she didn't want to be involved anymore), but second because she's going to be the new Thor! Jane Foster (Portman's character) did take a stint as the title character in the comics, but considering Portman's aforementioned lack of involvement and also considering how successful
Ragnarok was, I didn't think Marvel would go in such a different direction. Well, consider me intrigued!
Last up (and the only one with no date) is the reboot of
Blade, which -- despite recent rumors -- doesn't seem to have anything to do with Wesley Snipes. I do wonder if fans of the original R-rated movie will accept a likely PG-13 version of the character. (I didn't see the earlier movies, so I don't have a strong opinion on this.) Nonetheless, Marvel has rarely gone wrong when introducing new characters, so I'm sure they'll figure something out.
The biggest jaw-dropper of the whole announcement is not what's been included but what's been excluded. Where on earth is
Black Panther 2? My family is MCU'd out, so I still haven't seen
Endgame, but even if T'Challa didn't get "unsnapped" and even if all of Wakanda burned to the ground (both of which seem really unlikely to me), Marvel is going to make another
Black Panther movie. The last one made so much money at the box office, it beat
Infinity War! Even if they had to bring in someone new to fill the mantle, I'm sure they'll do it. So why isn't this on their release slate? Perhaps the difficulty lay in coordinating all of the actors' schedule, along with the director, as they must be very much in demand right now.
Also surprisingly excluded are the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. Feige said we'd have to wait a while before the next installments of each, but I figured they'd be in the new timeline even if they were at the very end of it. Oh, well. They do need to take their time and do it right.
Spider-Man is also missing, which suggests to me that it'll be released just after this new wave in 2022.