Marvel announces Avengers: Infinity War, Captain Marvel, Inhumans films

  • Breaking
  • 28/10/2014

Marvel Studios has announced a number of upcoming comic book adaptations as part of its phase three slate including a two-part follow-up to Avengers: Age of Ultron, a female Captain Marvel film and the ambitious Inhumans.

The studio's first phase included Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, ThorCaptain America: The First Avenger and ended with The Avengers.

Phase two includes Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron and will conclude with Ant-Man.

Future Marvel Studios titles and release months are as follows:

  • Avengers: Age of Ultron - May, 2015
  • Ant-Man - July, 2015
  • Captain America 3: Civil War - May, 2016
  • Doctor Strange - November, 2016
  • Guardians of the Galaxy 2 - May, 2017
  • Thor: Ragnarok - July, 2018
  • Black Panther - November, 2017
  • The Avengers - Infinity War: Part 1 - May, 2018
  • Captain Marvel - July, 2018
  • Inhumans - Nov, 2018
  • The Avengers - Infinity War: Part 2 - 2019

The first Avengers is the third highest-grossing film of all time behind Avatar and Titanic. While the second is being readied for release in May next year, the third has been broken into two releases - just as the final Harry Potter and Hunger Games chapters were split into two films each.

Marvel Phase Three

Benedict Cumberbatch has been reported as taking the titular role of Doctor Strange, but this was not confirmed by Marvel today. Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, said if Cumberbatch was confirmed, he would have announced it - just as he announced Chadwick Boseman as Black Panther.

Inhumans will mark the 20th Marvel Studios film and Feige said it will introduce "not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but dozens of new heroes."

The Inhumans comics, introduced in 1965, focus on a royal family of super beings who are ruled over by their mostly silent king Black Bolt, whose voice is a weapon of mass destruction. Young members of the Inhumans family get their powers by being doused in a chemical known as the Terrigen Mists when they reach maturity - some become monsters, some become superheroes.

Carol Danvers a.k.a. Captain Marvel is the first female hero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to get a standalone movie. A fusion of human DNA and genes from the shapeshifting alien race known as the Kree, Danvers made her debut as the character in comics in 1977.

Feige said the movie version of Captain Marvel will "straddle two worlds. Her origins are very much Earthbound, but her adventures and power base come from the cosmic realm."

While no standalone Black Widow film was even hinted at, Captain Marvel comes after Marvel being frequently criticised for not having any female-driven films.

Bootleg footage of today's announcements was recorded and uploaded online:

The Avengers - Infinity War: Part 2 will end Marvel's phase three in 2019. What the studio is planning after that was not announced.

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