Summary
Marvel Studioshas revealed its Disney+ plans for 2025, with a first look at six new shows coming to the streaming platform. The new releases are a mix of live-action and animated series with notable characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe returning.
It’s been almost four years since theMCUbranched out into television shows on Disney+. The studio came out of the gate swinging with five TV series in its first year,WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, Hawkeye,and the animated seriesWhat If…?. Fast-forward to 2024 and Marvel Studios has released 12 television shows, some with multiple seasons. In mid-2023, Disney CEO Bob Iger saidMarvel was planning to “decrease volumeand go to probably about two TV series a year.” However, that will not be the case in 2025.
Marvel Studios Announces 2025 Disney+ Shows
A new trailer released byMarvel Studiosshowcases several upcoming Disney+ releases in the MCU. The studio is rounding out 2024 with the release ofWhat If..?Season 3, with new episodes featuring characters like Shang-Chi and Blade. Marvel will also release three new series from Marvel Animation in 2025, including the Peter Parker prequelYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, the R-RatedMarvel Zombiesseries, and the Black Panther anthology seriesEyes of Wakanda. The studio will also release three live-action MCU series in 2025, includingDaredevil: Born Again, the Riri Williams spin-off seriesIronheart, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’sWonder Man.
Wonder Man
December 2025
New footage for all seven Disney+ series was included in the trailer, but perhaps the most notable was the reveal ofWonder Man, a series about which little is known. The series is created bySpider-Man 4andShang-Chidirector Destin Daniel Crettonand produced byHawkeye’sAndrew Guest.Wonder Manis set to be a comedy superhero series, starring Abdul-Mateen II as Simon Williams, an actor and stuntman who gains superpowers andbecomes the hero Wonder Man.
First Wonder Man Footage Revealed
The first footage in the Disney+ trailer shows Simon Williams entering a casting office where he prepares to audition for the role of Wonder Man. Williams says “I was born to play this character,” and is seen alongside Ben Kingsley’s Trevor Slattery, another character who is a known actor within the MCU. Kingsley was last seen inShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, but it makes sense he would appear in another MCU series that features on-screen actors. It appearsWonder Manwill position Williams and Slatteryas an unlikely duo, with the two getting into a car chase at one point in the footage. “We’ve both got a lot riding on this, you’d better not mess this up,” Slattery says. It’s unclear what the pair’s plan is, but judging by the short snippet shownWonder Mandoes seem to be taking advantage of its comedy genre. The series will be Marvel’s last Disney+ release of 2025.
Marvel’s 2025 Disney+ slate comes after a relatively quiet year for the studio.Echowas released on Disney+ in January, followed by the MCU’s only theatrical release,Deadpool & Wolverine,in July, and thenAgatha All Alongwill reach its conclusionby the end of October. It appears the studio intends to make up for lost time in 2025 with six new streaming series and three theatrical releases.
MCU
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is a sprawling movie and television franchise that weaves together individual stories of superheroes including Captain America, Thor, Spider-Man, Hulk, Black Widow, and many more. The first film in the franchise, Iron Man, was released in 2008. The MCU has garnered critical praise and financial success, earning billions at the box office and becoming a cultural phenomenon.
