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Marvel Delays Entire 2022 Slate, Including Doctor Strange 2 And Black Panther 2

All of Marvel's upcoming releases from 2022 onwards have been pushed back.

By Dan Auty on October 18, 2021 at 9:09AM PDT

Disney has delayed several of its upcoming Marvel movies, as well as non-MCU releases such as the latest Indiana Jones film. Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness, Thor: Love And Thunder, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever have all shifted to later dates in 2022.

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness was previously scheduled to arrive in March next year, but will now hit theaters on May 6. Thor: Love And Thunder will move back to August 7 from a June date, while Black Panther: Wakanda Forever shifts from August to November 11.

Inevitably, the result of these delays also has a knock-on effect on the Marvel movies that were scheduled to arrive in late 2022 and 2023. The Marvels moves to February 2023, with Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania now arriving in July 2023.

In addition, Disney has also pushed back the release of the currently-titled fifth Indiana Jones film an entire year. It will now hit theaters on June 30, 2023. The film, which stars Harrison Ford and is directed by James Mangold, is currently in production in Italy.

The studio has also removed two untitled non-Marvel movies from the schedule. The full list of new release dates is:

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness 5/6/22
Thor: Love And Thunder 7/8/22
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 11/11/22
Untitled Indiana Jones 6/30/23
The Marvels 2/17/23
Ant-man And The Wasp: Quantumania 7/28/23
Untitled Marvel Movie 11/3/23

While Marvel fans will have to wait a little longer to see next year's batch of movies, there are still two more MCU films set for release in 2021: Eternals hits theaters on November 5, with Spider-Man: No Way Home releasing on December 17. In addition, the Hawkeye TV show premieres on Disney+ on November 24.

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Indiana Jones 5 where they kill off true Indiana Jones during the time travel movie to erase the first 3 movies so the woke/SJW/Kennedy/twitter crowd can pass the mantle to a female who takes the name Indiana Jones cause she a strong woman. Wounder where ive seen that fail before ... ah yes the crappy Star wars squeals.

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@stoneraptor: What are about that awful terrible ghostbusters movie, strong female edition, of a few years ago.

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Yikes, there are enormous amounts of time between installments of nearly every sub-franchise on this list, and also now a long amount of time between Infinity War / Endgame and any of these movies. Yeah, part of it was because of the pandemic, but some of it was also attributed to other incidents or tragedies - like for GOTG Vol 3 (not on this list, but fit to bring up that whole James Gunn incident again) and BP 2 (Chadwick Boseman's death)

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Not sure why it takes 5-7 years to make some sequels, and yet Spiderman churns out periodically every 2 years. Which, by the way, I'm not complaining about. Last one was great.

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What’s going on with Marvel at the moment? Why are their movie adaptations so weak?

We’re getting the Eternals and the Marvels, two teams nobody asked for.

Meanwhile, there’s no Brotherhood of Mutants and no Mutant school. A series surrounding the Future Foundation would be amazing, with Spider-Man, She-Hulk, Ant-Man and other science people can cameo in. After a disastrous journey into the Negative Zone, one member betrays the team (Van Damme) and then the Fantastic Four are set up. Marvel have been focused on the two very different FF’s for ages now, Marvel’s first family; where are they?

Loki continues to soften, WandaVision wasn’t the tragic story of the Vision miniseries we asked for and Falcon and Winter Soldier was too aggressive in it’s new pandering mandate.

Why no Daredevil or Luke Cage? I would love to see villains like Mr Fish in Luke Cage Season 3.

It’s time to double down on the Spider-Man movies me thinks, and give us Scorpion escaping Oscorp. Get the Hi-school era done and get the kid into college already.

Who knows why they didn’t capitalise on the opportunity of having multiple Spider-Men fighting the Sinister Six.

This universe is dragging it’s feet.

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@vaativids: You have no idea that most of the IPs you mentioned was owned by Fox before the merger and those stories would only come about in Phase 5,do you?

Also Sony owns Spider-man properties,so there's that.

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@danmonger: All irrelevant. They don’t have to do the X-Men or FF then. Plenty of other ideas they can use. A Silver Surfer origin story, a proper Loki, Future Foundation contains a host of characters Marvel own full rights for and Sony will continue to make movies for the MCU.

Coming up with the story ideas should be the easy part. They shouldn’t be struggling at all.

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@vaativids: meanwhile less then a year after suicide squad we have a peacemaker tv show and new batman animated series along with the 20 other things DC has in the works.

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@vaativids: No, Falcon & Winter was not.

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@vaativids:

After the disaster that was Fantastic 4(2015), I don't really want to another movie as it's always based on Dr. Doom.

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@vaativids: I don't think we should expect any X-Men component until 2026 at this rate. If we're lucky.

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@nabinator: We'll get the Blade reboot with Mahershala Ali at this rate before we see the X-Men in the MCU any time soon.

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> currently-titled

I think you meant "currently-untitled"

And I really hope that the next Indiana Jones is not as unintentionally hilarious as the last one. I love Harrison Ford, but he's really too old for the acrobatics he attempted last time.

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My first thought was that this was because of the IATSE, but apparently a strike was averted, at least for now. Perhaps Disney believes that the tentative deal will still be rejected, and this is them preparing for that is why so many delays is happening.

Oh well, The Batman releasing March 2022 will have to do and DC better take advantage of Disney/Marvel delays if they have any DC films releasing.

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so starfield or another trash black panther film?? i think ill go with starfield.

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What's with the delays?

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@jerjef:My wife and I were at opening nights for most of the Phase 2 and Phase 3 MCU releases. We've been to one movie together since COVID started. An anecdote is obviously not proof of anything, but I'd guess that our story isn't too dissimilar from many others.

While people keep talking about "record-breaking" sales, there's always an asterisk that says "post-pandemic" or "since theaters re-opened", because these new numbers are still nowhere close to the old ones. For instance, Black Widow and Captain Marvel both tell one-off stories that feature female leads in a well-established superhero franchise, so you might expect them to perform similarly, but despite the former having better critical reviews, better fan reviews, an established character, and massive pent-up demand, Black Widow made less than half what Captain Marvel made in domestic ticket sales ($184M vs. $427M). We're also seeing faster declines in week-over-week ticket sales, with opening weekends that are poor and following weeks that are even worse.

Delaying gives them a chance to see if a rebound will happen. If not, they'll need to adjust.

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@aichon: People are finding much enjoyment being able to watch a movie on release day in their own home. Being able to watch Halloween Kills at home, at my convenience on the day of release was great.

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@Solaryellow: Only reason I bothered with No Time to Die was because it's only in theaters. If it had been streaming I definitely would have stayed home. Halloween Kills was great to watch at home away from the autists who can't go one minute without putting their phones down and/or shut the hell up to pay attention to the movie.

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@Solaryellow: My home theater has proven several times over this past year to be better than the actual theater on the occasions that I've tried to go to the movies. When I went out to see Quiet Place 2, there was a blown-out speaker directly over my head that hissed the entire time... in a movie that has prolonged periods of absolute silence, that ruins it. For Shang Chi, I was stuck with a seat so close to the front that it made the picture look grainy. None of this is an issue in my living room with an OLED tv and surround sound... plus I don't have to worry about covid.

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@jerjef: covid they are afraid they are not going to make any money

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@dragoonmike: they aint making any money on these anyway regardless of covid.

doctor strange - niche character not many people actually care for.

thor movie - handing over the torch just so thor can be a woman now

black panther - super average first film only did well due to pushing the whole race thing.

indiana jones - hasn't been good since the 80s

the marvels - the who?

antman - another niche character.

untitled marvel film - probably something like first indian lead super hero movie since thats all marvel do now is try score brownie points on the diversity cards.

they are more interested in giving us films based on characters nobody has either heard of or care about just to score a cheap win with the diversity crowd instead of making actual decent super hero films with characters we actually know.

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@xnshd: Doctor Strange sells well, and the last Thor did incredibly well, critically and financially. The same for Black Panther. Fucking goldmines.

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@nabinator: the last thor did well because it was a proper thor film not like a said a passing of the torch so that thor can be a woman.

doctor strange sold well when they still had the avengers etc coming up so it was relevant.

and black panther again was painfully average just sold well due to the diversity card.

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@xnshd: Whatever goalpost you feel you need to move,I guess. Haters have been hounding on the MCU since 2012 Avengers,get consistently proved wrong and then pretend like they never got snubbed after that,lol.

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@xnshd: How was it a proper Thor film when blonde Thor got beaten up by a single Valkyrie?

Dr Strange is relevant because he’s a powerhouse with interesting visual effects.

Black Panther sold well ALL around the world, not just domestically, and that was because it was culturally unique and broke out from the NY mould of Marvel comics.

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@vaativids: I wouldn't call getting zapped unexpectedly on the neck being 'beat up.' That implies there was a fight. There wasn't. It was an ambush. Almost anyone can win in an ambush.

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@nabinator: How about Hela wrecking him multiple times?

Don’t get me wrong, I want to see the powerhouse bully-brute god struggle at some point but it should be against an army of fire giants or something on that scale.

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@vaativids: Hela wrecked the whole of fucking Asgard. Pretty overpowered villain, as far as cinematic villains go. But weird conjecture to make - she's Thor's older sister. If he's a god, she is too. A firstborn god, who are usually stronger.

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@nabinator: Stronger than Thor and Odin even though all of Thor’s sisters are Valkyries? So where was their mother when they re-wrote this family of gods?

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@xnshd: I agree with you for the most part. Except for a few things.

Dr Strange has always had potential, since the very beginning of the Marvel events aka Secret Wars.

I totally agree on the Thor criticism, the bully-powerhouse-god getting his ass handed to him by much weaker deities such as Valkyries. I don’t know if Jane is trans and that’s why she adopted a man’s name from Viking times but even it she isn’t, it was forced back in 2014, regardless of what little exposure he or she is getting now, because I quit reading comics about two-three years prior her demigod inception.

Black Panther was brilliant because it’s villain was proper and it’s hero was Chadwick and the supporting cast were also great. The sequel however has no chance. Not without the Boss Man.

Indiana Jones will be replaced by Ms. Jokes, a noob archaeologists who hasn’t earned the audience’s admiration in any situation but still kicks the feeble old guy all over the room anyhow, for “legacy” reasons. Would be the exact same if it was the new protagonist was a guy. Makes no difference. Bad writing is bad writing. Nobody is going to just accept some new hero over the iconic legend everybody came to see.

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@vaativids: The fact it's Phoebe Waller Bridge replacing Ford is what makes not give two craps about the new Indy film. Can't stand that woman and she was the worst part of Solo as that stupid droid spouting off about "droid rights" and all. Best part was her finally getting blasted.

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@xnshd: yeah but the way hollywood works is they borrow the money to make movies so they can only stall for so long till the banks or who ever want there money

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@dragoonmike: They’re funded by independent investors who used to make five times their investment back at opening weekend, only to then complain when it takes a whole month to get three times their budget back, as was the case with Blade Runner 2049, which wasn’t good enough for them, even though they didn’t lift a finger.

I’ve been waiting for this readjustment for decades.

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