Dark Phoenix (Feb. 14, 2019)
Game of Thrones‘ Sophie Turner took over from Famke Janssen as the younger version of the formidable mutant Jean Grey in 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse. Next year, she’ll star in her own movie about Jean Grey’s evolution from superhero into supervillain. The story will be set in the 1990s, and Jean will have to contend with the dark forces in her own mind.
Captain Marvel (March 8, 2019)
Brie Larson will star as Captain Marvel, the first woman to get her own film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The upcoming Marvel movie, set in the 1990s, will trace Carol Danvers’ evolution from fighter pilot to flying superhero who can shoot beams out of her hands.
Avengers 4 (May 3, 2019)
The fourth and yet-unnamed Avengers movie will complete “Phase Three” of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Several of the stars’ contracts will expire with that movie, including Chris Evans (Captain America), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Rober Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow) and Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye).
Gambit (June 7, 2019)
Channing Tatum has been trying to get a Gambit movie made for years. The Magic Mike actor plans to star as the New Orleans-based thief with the ability to charge inanimate objects (like playing cards) with explosive power.
Spider-Man: Homecoming 2 (July 5, 2019)
Spider-Man will definitely survive the Infinity War movies because he’s contractually obligated to star in another two more Spider-Man films. Tom Holland will return as geeky teen Peter Parker and Zendaya will also appear as Mary Jane. Though Robert Downey Jr. played a major role in the first film as Spider-Man’s mentor, Holland has confirmed that Iron Man won’t appear in Homecoming 2. Disney and Sony have held other details about the plot close to the chest.
The New Mutants (Aug. 2, 2019)
Fox has slowly been building a cohort of young actors to take over the X-Men movies when actors like James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence inevitably exit the franchise. (They are already the second group of actors to play the X-Men. Ian McKellan, Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry were among the first group.)
They introduced new actors to play younger versions of the characters from the original X-Men movies like Sophie Turner as Jean Grey and Alexandra Shipp as Storm in X-Men: Apocalypse. But they also are pulling characters from the comics and giving them big screen debuts, like Dafne Keen as X-23 in Logan.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2020)
James Gunn, who directed the first two Guardians films, has already promised a third movie, due out sometime in 2020. We don’t know much about the plot, though we do know that the Guardians will play some role in battling Thanos in Infinity War. Gamora and Nebula are the adopted daughters of Thanos and probably know him best. Plus, in the trailer for Infinity War, the Guardians pick up Thor floating in space. Thanos presumably destroyed Thor’s ship in search of the Tessearct, one of the Infinity Stones, and the God of Thunder will have to team up with the Guardians.
