![]() But after a brutal attack, Peter Quill must lead the Guardians on a dangerous mission to protect one of their members that could lead to the team dissolving. As the official synopsis puts it:Īfter purchasing Knowhere from the Collector, the Guardians of the Galaxy attempt to make it a safe haven for alien refugees. The recently released Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special on Disney+ begins laying the groundwork here-Peter finds out that Mantis is his half-sister, and we get a look at how the Guardians have been retrofitting and renovating Knowhere to make it into a sort of celestial alien commune. Presumably the last hurrah for director James Gunn in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, following the drawn-out drama over his Twitter dust-up, firing and subsequent rehiring before he was hired as an architect of the competing DCEU, it seems safe to say the director will be ready to go out in style. Quantumania looks to kick off Phase 5 with a bang on Feb. Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne, along with Hope’s parents Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne and Lang’s daughter Cassie, go on a new adventure exploring the Quantum Realm that pushes their limits and pits them against Kang the Conqueror. It remains to be seen how the Quantum Realm will be able to interact with the wider MCU, but it will no doubt be established here. The plot of Quantumania, meanwhile, seems to hinge around the decades that Janet van Dyne spent lost in the Quantum Realm, and a secret about that place she never revealed to Hank Pym and co.-the fact that it has its own civilization, for one. One swap: Scott’s daughter Cassie is played by the third different actress for this series, now being portrayed by Freaky’s Kathryn Newton. Jonathan Majors again plays the timeless Kang, alongside all the Ant-Man regulars-Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer, etc. The first MCU feature film of 2023 is bringing us back down to the teenyverse that is the Quantum Realm, while also having major implications for the next era of Avengers films-if a few years from now we’ll be watching an Avengers film with Kang the Conqueror in the title, then it stands to reason that all of his appearances leading up to that movie will likely be pivotal, and he looks to be a major player here, returning after his introduction in the first season of Loki. That MCU grand cru won’t reoccur until Phase 6 in 2025, via Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.Īnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Release date: Feb. Regardless, this slate of films and accompanying TV series represents the launch of Phase 5 of the MCU-notably, like Phase 4, this one doesn’t include an Avengers entry. ![]() That’s a pretty decently sized gap for the MCU, so one has to wonder if there’s something else in the mix we don’t yet know about. ![]() The MCU feature film slate for 2023 is a little on the uneven side-three films are scheduled for release by the end of July, but there are no features coming up from August onward-not until Captain America: New World Order in May of 2024. Here’s a brief synopsis of each project headed our way in the next 12 months or so. The Disney/Marvel machine is of course very busy, with dozens and dozens of projects at some stage of development, but here we’re focusing specifically on every project that is expected to release before the end of this calendar year, 2023. Marvel, She-Hulk and Moon Knight.īut that’s old news, now: What about 2023? What films can we expect to see make their way to multiplexes throughout this year, hopefully in a post-pandemic era? What new series, miniseries and TV specials, meanwhile, will we be able to enjoy on the small screen from the comfort of our own homes? With the full might of the Disney juggernaut behind it, the MCU continues to dominate the box office on a yearly basis, while also becoming the premiere content that anchored Disney+ throughout 2022 with the launch of series such as Ms. Some 15 years now since the sea change moment of 2008’s Iron Man and the birth of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the MCU is still an entertainment and marketing machine of incredible complexity and box office value.
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