For the last few years, Marvel has had a clear plan leading up to the release of next year’s The Avengers. However after that’s come out, things get a little foggier. Iron Man 3 and Thor 2 have already been pencilled in for 2013, and it’s likely we’ll get another Captain America, but other that that it’s all been whispers and rumours.
However it appears there are definite plans in the works, even if Disney/Marvel aren’t quite prepared to announce what they are yet. It seems that after Sony staked a May 2014 date for Amazing Spider-man 2, Disney was keen to snap up a couple of summer dates that year before anyone could beat them to it. As a result, May 16th, 2014 and June 27th, 2014 are both down for Marvel flicks, but there’s no news on what they might be.
It’s possible one will be the Captain America flick, but if so, you’d have expected them to just say that. The likelihood is therefore that these will be characters we haven’t seen on the big screen before. It’s known that Marvel has been working on a Doctor Strange flick, and there’s also the long-gestating Ant-Man movie, but whether there are the films’ Marvel has scheduled is just a guess at the moment.
There’s also the possibility that the movies are somehow linked together (like the various Marvel flicks have been leading up to The Avengers), and that the reason the studio wants to put their name on two dates only six weeks apart, but nearly two years away, is because whatever these movies are, they need to be released that way. It would be difficult to do that if they waited until the 2014 summer schedule was already filling up before announcing the dates.
At the moment it’s all speculation, but hopefully there be more info on exactly what these films are soon!
Oh, and by the way, at the same time Disney also dated another mystery movie, this time one from Pixar, which will be released in the US on May 30th, 2014. Pixar’s already got an unknown movie coming out November 27th, 2013, so it certainly seems very secretive at the House Of Mouse and its subsidiaries.