Disney introduced on Wednesday that Marvel Studios is scheduled to launch an untitled film on Dec. 15, 2028. It might be the fourth function from the division set for that calendar yr, with beforehand introduced movies scheduled for launch in February, Might and November of 2028.

Ought to all 4 movies maintain onto these dates — which isn’t practically sure — it might be an sudden transfer for the studio, given Disney CEO Bob Iger’s latest public admission that Marvel “misplaced a bit focus by making an excessive amount of.” 

“Everyone knows that in our zeal to flood our streaming platform with extra content material, that we turned to all of our artistic engines, together with Marvel, and had them produce much more,” Iger stated throughout an investor name in Might. “We’ve additionally realized over time that amount doesn’t essentially beget high quality. And admittedly, we’ve all admitted to ourselves that we misplaced a bit focus by making an excessive amount of. By consolidating a bit and having Marvel focus way more on their movies, we imagine that can lead to higher high quality.”

It’s fairly unclear, nonetheless, whether or not Marvel will truly launch 4 movies in 2028. Disney has a historical past of holding onto launch dates for function tasks nicely previous when these movies may realistically make these dates to make sure they continue to be obtainable for different movies from the corporate: Marvel’s “Blade” was faraway from its November 2025 launch date solely after Disney was prepared to fit the twentieth Century Studios movie “Predator: Badlands” as an alternative.

For 2026 and 2027, Marvel has considerably winnowed its function slate. After “The Incredible 4: First Steps” opens in July, the studio is producing two movies in 2026 — “Spider-Man: Model New Day” (a co-production with Sony Footage) in July and  “Avengers: Doomsday” in December; and two movies in 2027 — an untitled undertaking in July and “Avengers: Secret Wars” in December.

“Secret Wars” is supposed to be the finale of the Multiverse Saga, after which Marvel is anticipated to pivot to a saga centered round two units of characters inherited in Disney’s 2019 acquisition of twentieth Century Fox: the Incredible 4 and the X-Males. For the latter, “Thunderbolts*” director Jake Schreier has been tapped to helm the MCU’s first mutant film (though many actors from Fox’s “X-Males” motion pictures within the 2000s, together with Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, will seem in “Doomsday”). Different Marvel tasks in improvement that might wind up opening in 2028 embody the aforementioned “Blade,” “Black Panther 3,” and “Incredible 4” sequel.