Marvel has big plans to save the movie business. On Monday, the studio dropped a three minute super-trailer “Marvel Celebrates the Movies,” highlighting the enduring impact of Marvel movies, while teasing new information about some of the most beloved titles in its massive catalogue.
With a voice over from late Marvel head and comic book legend Stan Lee, the jumbo-sized trailer is an unabashed love letter to Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, complete with handheld cellphone footage of the audience’s reaction to a pivotal moment from Avengers: Endgame on opening night. The trailer then pivots from days of yore to the future, giving starving-Marvel fans a timeline for the slate of movies coming after next year as well as a few kernels of new information about some of the studios most highly anticipated titles.
The biggest reveal from the trailer is that the sequel to Black Panther will be called Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, hitting theaters July 8, 2022. Likewise, the Captain Marvel sequel announced its official title and release date: The Marvels which is set to be released on November 11, 2022. Real fans may notices that the “S” in The Marvels is the symbol for Kamala Khan a.k.a. Ms. Marvel, who’ll be played by newcomer Iman Vellani on an upcoming Disney+ series which will introduce Marvel’s first Muslim superhero. That show is also likely to feature Wandavision‘s Teyonah Parris returning as Monica Rambeau who now has superpowers and has gone by the title Spectrum, Photon, and also Captain Marvel in the comics. Fans are also geeking out in hope that the pluralization in The Marvels opens the door to a character known as Blue Marvel.
Elsewhere, we got a first look at newly minted Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao’s entry into the Marvel pantheon, The Eternals, starring Angelina Jolie, which is set to hit theaters on November 5, 2021. The Marvel mega trailer drops a week after the Oscars – once the film industry’s biggest night – received their lowest ratings ever, failing to cross the 10 million average viewers. That depressing statistic aside, Marvel clearly believes it has the antidote for our movie-watching malaise, which began in earnest when COVID-19 shutdown theaters across the country last March, upending the film industry. But, as movie theaters continue to reopen their doors and the film industry heads toward summer blockbuster season, it’s unclear as to how the film industry will bounce back from these recent setbacks. But if anyone knows how to save the day, it’s Marvel.
Here are all of the official titles and release dates for MCU’s Phase Four:
Black Widow — July 9, 2021
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings — September 3, 2021
The Eternals — November 5, 2021
Spider-Man: No Way Home — December 17, 2021
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness — March 25, 2022
Thor: Love and Thunder — May 6, 2022
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — July 8, 2022
The Marvels — November 11, 2022
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania — February 17, 2023
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 — May 5, 2023
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