Disney introduced a slew of Marvel superhero films together with two new Avengers films Saturday at Comic-Con, because it supplied screaming followers an emotional first glimpse at its upcoming Black Panther sequel.
The record-breaking Marvel films have dominated Hollywood and world field workplaces lately, with 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame” briefly turning into the highest-grossing movie of all time at greater than $2.79 billion.
“I wonder if you guys wouldn’t mind looking ahead a little bit?”
studio president Kevin Feige requested the wildly cheering corridor of die-hard superhero followers towards the tip of a raucous hour-plus presentation at a San Diego conference middle.
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Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars will hit theaters in 2025, he then introduced.
The films will purpose to observe within the footsteps of Avengers: Endgame, which constructed unprecedented hype by rounding off storylines offered in all of the previous Marvel films.
The two new “Avengers” titles will conclude the subsequent saga of greater than a dozen inter-connected films and tv reveals within the “Marvel Cinematic Universe,” stated Feige.
“That will complete the second saga of the MCU, which of course is ‘The Multiverse Saga,’” he stated.
The Marvel franchise in current films and reveals has explored the multiverse idea popularized by superhero comedian books, wherein infinite universes — and infinite variations of every hero and villain — exist in parallel realities.
‘Black Panther’ returns
The Marvel presentation capped off the most important day at Comic-Con, and drew the week’s loudest and most frenzied cheers within the 6 000 capability Hall H, the place many had camped in line for days to achieve entry.
It ended with the primary trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, a sequel to the primary comedian e-book movie to win a finest image Oscar nomination, set to premiere 11 November.
Returning director Ryan Coogler, taking to the San Diego stage with a colourful troupe of African drummers and dancers, paid an emotional tribute to the primary movie’s star, the “late, great Chadwick Boseman.”
Boseman died from most cancers in 2020, and his function will not be being taken over by one other actor within the new movie.
“I promise you, I can feel his hand on me right now,”
stated Coogler.
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Coogler then offered new characters within the franchise being performed by Michaela Coel and Tenoch Huerta.
Coel, who gained an Emmy for I May Destroy You, praised the distinctive “energy” of the primary Black Panther movie, which was extensively seen as a breakthrough for Black illustration in mainstream Hollywood films.
“I think it’s got something to do with a Black superhero, padded out a clan of Black superheroes and what that kind of does for Black people,” she stated.
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Marvel A-listers
Other Marvel films introduced Saturday by Disney at the world’s most well-known popular culture gathering included Thunderbolts and Fantastic Four, each due in 2024.
Feige additionally set out dates for Blade — in theaters November 2023 — and the newly titled “Captain America: New World Order” coming May 2024.
Bill Murray and Olivia Colman be part of the ranks of Hollywood A-listers flocking to the Marvel franchise, showing in first-look footage from film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Disney+ collection “Secret Invasion” respectively.
Chris Pratt, Paul Rudd, and Lupita Nyong’o additionally appeared on stage Saturday together with Jonathan Majors, whose “Kang the Conqueror” character seems poised to grow to be a serious new supervillain for the franchise.
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