It’s been a big day for Marvel movie fans, with the studio making a whole load of major announcements, including new films, the full titles of some movies we knew were coming, as well as a major pieces of casting. Starting with the last thing first, Marvel revealed not only that the long gestating Black Panther movie will be released on November 3rd, 2017, but Chadwick Boseman will play the role.
The reason the role has already been cast is largely because that won’t be the first time we see him, as he will play a large part in Captain America 3. But of course it won’t be called Captain America 3, it will be Captain America: Civil War, as Marvel has now confirmed.
That would be enough news for most companies but Marvel decided to really let it all out, as they also revealed that the third Thor movie will be Thor: Ragnarok, and that we’ll also be getting an Inhumans movie and a Captain Marvel film in 2018. Indeed from 2017 the slate is getting so packed that the company will be releasing three films a year instead of two.
And just to top it all off, we now know that Avengers 3 is getting split in two, with Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 coming May 2018 and Part II May 2019.
It’s certainly a hell of a lot to digest all at once, including confirmation that not only will Marvel get its first film led by a black superhero – Black Panther – but we’ll also have the first female-led one. Previous Captain Marvel rumours have assumed that it would be about the original incarnation, who was the fully grown superhero incarnation of a youngster Billy Batson.
However the film will follow the Carol Danvers version, who has been Captain Marvel since 2012 (and was Ms. Marvel before that). Many had expected Black Widow to be the first female Marvel character to get her own movie, but it turns out we’ll have to wait for that and watch Captain Marvel first.
Take a look at a rundown of all the newly confirmed release dates and titles, along with some of the freshly revealed logos:
Avengers: Age of Ultron – May 1, 2015
Ant-Man – July 17, 2015
Captain America: Civil War – May 6, 2016
Doctor Strange – November 4, 2016
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 – May 5, 2017
Thor: Ragnarok – July 28, 2017
Black Panther – November 3, 2017
Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 – May 4, 2018
Captain Marvel – July 6, 2018
Inhumans – November 2, 2018
Avengers: Infinity War Part 2 – May 3, 2019
