Marvel Phase 6 is in full swing, and now with the release of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the stage is set for Vision Quest and Avengers: Doomsday to end the year with a bang.
However, let's be honest, the Multiverse Saga is a complicated beast and can be a pain to keep track of, as nowadays you need to watch both Disney Plus shows and all the upcoming Marvel movies to make sense of everything. However, I write about the Marvel timeline for a living, and have decided to put all the information and insights that I've found into one handy page.
To help you chart the next few months, here is a complete guide to Marvel Phase 6. That includes confirmed projects, release dates, rumors, and cast news.
Marvel Phase 6 release dates
As revealed by Kevin Feige way back at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, there are a fair few entries in Marvel Phase 6 to come – although there have been some delays and changes since then. The confirmed release dates are as follows:
- The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) – out now!
- Eyes of Wakanda (2025) [Disney Plus] – out now!
- Marvel Zombies (2025) [Disney Plus] – out now!
- Wonder Man (2026) [Disney Plus] – out now!
- Daredevil: Born Again season 2 (2026) [Disney Plus] – out now!
- The Punisher: One Last Kill (2026) [Disney Plus] – out now!
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) – out now!
- VisionQuest – October 14, 2026
- Avengers: Doomsday – December 18, 2026
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man season 2 – TBC 2026
- Avengers: Secret Wars – December 17, 2027
Upcoming Marvel Phase 6 movies and shows
During Marvel's panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2024, it was revealed that three additional movies to the three already planned would be happening. And in October 2024, Deadline shared how another three movies were also in the works for 2028.
But, plans have seemingly changed since then, as some 2026 movie release dates were never filled. At San Diego Comic-Con 2026, we did find out that one of the 2028 movies is, in fact, Black Panther 3, and the other is Ghost Rider. We are still waiting on a release date for the latter, as well as the final 2028 announcement.
However, we have also learned that Marvel Phase 6 technically is going to end with Secret Wars, so that means that those two will now fall under Marvel Phase 7.
Below, we've gone into detail on the upcoming films that are set in stone, as well as the Marvel series with firm release windows, while we wait for more information.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Release date: July 31, 2026
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is out now and arrives right before Avengers: Doomsday, with Tom Holland returning to play our main hero. Plus, Jon Bernthal returns as the Punisher, along with Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk, and Michael Mando as Scorpion. Sadie Sink's role also points towards an X-Men future, and Zendaya and Jacob Batalon are back as MJ and Ned. For more information on the flick, you can read our Spider-Man: Brand New Day review.
VisionQuest
Release date: October 14, 2026
VisionQuest, a spin-off of WandaVision that's set to follow Paul Bettany's synthezoid hero, is slated to air on Disney Plus in late 2026. Star Trek: Picard EP Terry Matalas will serve as showrunner. The new series will take place after the events of the WandaVision finale, and it will follow the all-white, rebuilt Vision as he finds a new purpose after being given a second chance at life.
In October 2024, Bettany told The Hollywood Reporter that they're "cooking up something that I'm really excited about" with Vision, before cutting himself off with a smile and "snitches end up in ditches."
"It’s about intergenerational trauma… fathers and sons and denial of pain and denial of your own truth and coming to terms with who and what you are," Bettany later said during an appearance at Los Angeles Comic Con (via ComicBookMovie.com).
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man season 2
Release date: TBA 2026
After Brand New Day hits the big screen, an alternate version of Peter Parker returns to the small screen. Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man season 2 will arrive in late 2026, set in a different timeline where Norman Osborn mentors Peter instead of Tony Stark. Charlie Cox is set to return as Daredevil in animated form in the next installment, alongside new characters including Spider-Gwen and Venom.
Avengers: Doomsday
Release date: December 18, 2026
If you thought we'd seen the last of the Avengers in Endgame, think again. We have to wait a while until Avengers 5 – now named Avengers: Doomsday – arrives, though. During San Diego Comic-Con 2024, it was announced that the Russo brothers will be directing the project and that Robert Downey Jr. has been cast as Doctor Doom.
The film has an absolutely massive cast, including the likes of Anthony Mackie's Sam Wilson, Sebastian Stan's Bucky Barnes, Letitia Wright's Shuri, the Thunderbolts, the Fantastic Four, and even some of the Fox X-Men. Artwork released in July 2026 unveils the full cast in their costumes, though there are still a few notable absences.
Four trailers were released, each attached to Avatar: Fire and Ash, with a new trailer playing each week for a month. The first reveals that Chris Evans's Steve Rogers is back – and he has a child. The others revolved around Thor, the Fantastic Four crossing paths with the Wakandans, and the X-Men.
Avengers: Secret Wars
Release date: December 17, 2027
Not a lot has been confirmed about Avengers: Secret Wars just yet. However, Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo has teased that the movie will "go out with a bang." In the comics, the Secret Wars saw Marvel's most powerful superheroes face off against the universe's most powerful villains, so whatever goes down is bound to be pretty explosive.
No major casting information has been announced either, but the 2015 Secret Wars comic book storyline included Thor, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Captain America, She-Hulk, and the Fantastic Four. As for villains, we know that Doctor Doom will be the main bad guy, with Robert Downey Jr. taking charge as the character. Like Avengers: Doomsday, the Russo brothers are also directing Secret Wars.
It should also be noted that for now, Secret Wars will be the ending of Marvel Phase 6. We'll keep you posted if that changes at all, though.
Potential Marvel Phase 6 movies and TV shows
There are multiple potential projects that might also form part of Marvel Phase 6. These are:
Marvel Zombies season 2
Marvel Zombies season 2 has been confirmed, though it doesn't have a release date just yet. Hardly anything is known about the plot, either, though Brad Winderbaum has teased that Bucky Barnes could return.
"I don't think it's a spoiler, but I saw the first animatic of the first episode of Marvel Zombies season 2 this morning," Winderbaum told The Escape Pod. "It was crazy. I can't say anything about it. But it delivers not just on like zombies, but also on like an MCU thing that has never really happened before that we're very excited to do."
Shang-Chi 2
A Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings sequel is officially in the works, with Simu Liu and director Destin Daniel Cretton both returning. Surprisingly, though, the film wasn't part of Marvel's Phase 5 lineup. That means we won't be seeing the follow-up until Phase 6 at the earliest. Updates have been thin on the ground, but Liu promised fans that the long-awaited follow-up was still happening in August 2024. We'll next see Shang-Chi in Doomsday, which could clear up some questions about the character's future.
Doctor Strange 3
Doctor Strange 3 hasn't been confirmed, but after Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' first post-credits scene showed Strange meeting Clea and heading through an interdimensional portal, we can assume we'll be seeing more from the sorcerer sooner rather than later. Strange is also all tied up with the multiverse, and since this stage of the MCU is named the Multiverse Saga, it would make sense for his third movie to fall within Phase 6. Curiously, though, Stephen Strange will not appear in Doomsday – though maybe we'll be seeing him in Secret Wars.
Thor 5
Thor 5 hasn't been officially announced, but Thor: Love and Thunder certainly leaves the way open for a continuation. For one thing, there are those post-credits scenes that introduce Brett Goldstein's Hercules and reveal Idris Elba's Heimdall and Natalie Portman's Jane Foster are both in Valhalla. Then there's the introduction of Love, Gorr the God Butcher's daughter, now in the care of Thor. But, Thor has a role in Avengers: Doomsday, so the future of the character will likely become clearer after that movie releases.
X-Men
An X-Men movie is in development with Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier at the helm. Not much is known about the movie yet, but many of the original X-Men line-up from the Fox era will be returning in Avengers: Doomsday, so we'll likely have a better idea about what might be coming next after December 2026.
Similarly, Spider-Man: Brand New Day did reveal Sadie Sink as Jean Grey, so the X-Men are definitely going to have their moment soon. I'm guessing some multiverse antics will give us a new timeline for a new cast. However, that is just speculation on my end at the moment.
Marvel Phase 6 recap
As for the story so far, in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, we're finally introduced to Marvel's First Family. While they're able to beat Galactus, who wanted to steal Reed and Sue's baby Franklin, trouble arrives in the form of Doctor Doom showing up in the Fantastic Four: First Steps post-credits scene.
Then, in Eyes of Wakanda, we're taken on a trip through history with Wakandan agents tracking down various Vibranium artifacts. The show introduced the original Iron Fist and also provided more context to Killmonger's arrival in the original Black Panther movie.
Marvel Zombies comes next, though it's not strictly MCU canon. It's a spin-off of a What If...? episode from season 1, so while it does exist within the MCU, it's not on the Sacred Timeline. That show saw many of our favorite characters get brutally killed or gruesomely zombified, and ultimately ended with Scarlet Witch plunging the world into an illusion where the undead no longer exist. But, Riri Williams is attempting to break Kamala Khan out of the vision, which could be followed up in a potential season 2.
After that was Wonder Man, a standalone Disney Plus show that saw aspiring (and secretly superpowered) actor Simon Williams team up with Trevor Slattery to secure a role in a reboot of '80s superhero movie called – you guessed it – Wonder Man. Other than an extended run-in with DODC agent P. Cleary, the show doesn't seem like it'll have much of a knock-on on the rest of the MCU, though (but this doesn't mean it's not worth a watch).
Then came Daredevil: Born Again season 2. That show saw the return of Jessica Jones, as Matt Murdock went head-to-head with Wilson Fisk once again. The season ended with Matt in jail, which could lead into Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
In The Punisher: One Last Kill, meanwhile, Frank Castle ultimately got his mojo back after a bloody revenge mission gone awry, and is last seen defending the innocent on the streets. That primes him for Brand New Day, too, in which he will help out Peter Parker.
In Brand New Day, we do indeed see Frank Castle again. However, the biggest implications of that movie are that Peter managed to create a device that can suppress powers (I'm sure that won't come up again later, wink), and Jean Grey was introduced into the MCU, setting the stage for the new X-Men. The Spider-Man: Brand New Day post-credit scene also shows Spidey traveling to space. We still aren't sure how he got there, but the seeds for Doomsday have been planted.
Catch up on the MCU with our guide to watching the Marvel movies in order – and the good news is, almost everything is streaming on Disney Plus now.
