Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, do we have a lot of new Marvel news. I do a quick rundown on 10 Minute Marvel, coming out on Tuesday, but let’s look at what we know is coming out. I will say that speculation content is going to be more apt to show up on 10 Minute Marvel, so please consider giving that a listen. You can find it on Google Play, Libsyn, as well as on this site, and hopefully soon Apple Podcast.

But let’s talk about what we do know thus far. The big thing is that we have all of Phase 4 out there, and that takes us up through the end of 2021. We also know that Kevin Feige has hinted at more coming at possibly the Disney Expo (D23).

Let’s start in May of 2020. We are starting with Black Widow, and there was some footage, which I haven’t found yet. But in that footage, I know that it was Budapest, a couple of fight sequences, including one against Taskmaster. Taskmaster is a mysterious sleeper agent character, if you are wondering, and probably one of the bad guys, though he switches sides at times. Also in this movie, we have Rachel Weisz, David Harbour, and Florence Pugh.

Next, on Disney+ streaming, we have The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. No official date for that yet, but it is slated for Fall of 2020. Remember, next year we are only getting two Marvel movies, but then in 2021 we’ll be back to 3. The main characters are back for this, but did didn’t find out a ton of information.

To wrap up 2020, we have The Eternals. A book written by Neil Gaiman, I have to go back and read it again. But we do know a lot of the cast for Eternals. We have Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Salma Hayek, Bryan Tyree Henry, Dong-seok Ma, Lia McHugh, and Lauren Ridloff.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is next on the docket. We have some casting for this with Awkwafina cast and Simu Liu playing the lead Shang-Chi. We also have Tony Leung playing the real Mandarin. What does it mean for Iron Man 3? There was actually a Marvel Short where they talked about and said that there was a real Mandarin, and in Iron Man (the original one), we see the Ten Rings.

The next two I’m going to lump together, we start out with WandaVision. We don’t know much about it except that Monica Rambeau is going to be in it. And we also know that it ties into Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. In Doctor Strange, we are going to have the Scarlet Witch, and it’s going to be a Marvel foray into horror, which I think is really interesting. Again, I have some thoughts on this, but they will be on 10 Minute MarveL (#10MinMarvel).

Then we are getting a Loki show on Disney+ later that year. In Avengers: Endgame we see Loki escape from the first Avengers movie. So what does that mean for him, and where is he going, who knows? But there has been rumors it might be him hopping around time.

After that, we get What If…?. The What if comics have generally taken a classic story and written it differently, like what if the bad guy had won in Age of Ultron. We know that Jeffrey Wright is going to voice the Watcher. The Watcher is an extraterrestrial being/race that watches over the universe (and possibly multi-verse) watching what happens. It sounds like we’ll get actors reprising roles for this Disney+ series. This is slated for the summer of 2021.

Then we have Hawkeye. We know a couple of things, or can infer them, first the logo is similar to Matt Fractions run in the comics. They have also confirmed that we are getting Kate Bishop who takes over as Hawkeye at times.

Finally, wrapping up the Phase 4 announcements, we have Thor: Love and Thunder. What we know about this is that we are getting Lady Thor from Jason Aaron’s Mighty Thor run. And that Lady Thor is likely going to be Natalie Portman who will be back in her role as Jane Foster.

Woof, that’s a lot of news. But I got through it. They also announced that Blade will be coming up sometime, and we have an actor to play Blade in Mahershala Ali.

And the last thing that came out of Hall H at San Diego Comic Con, was that Kevin Feige commented that they hadn’t even gotten to Black Panther 2 and Captain Marvel 2, as well as Fantastic Four and Mutants.

There is so much to speculate on, expect this to dominate the news on 10 Minute Marvel, and I might do some episodes about speculation, because we now have a lot to speculate on.

So, what do you think of this Marvel Phase 4 announcement? Is there any show or movie that you are interested in more than the others? For me it’s the WandaVision/Doctor Strange combo, I think that could be something very different for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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