All the big announcements from Disney’s Investor Day conference
By Dan Selcke
Disney is making big announcements about all its big franchises and platforms. We’re covering them all right here!
Today, Disney is revealing its plans for the future in a four-hour presentation, which you can watch in real-time on its website. It’s expected to drop a “Death Star-size trove” of information about Star Wars projects, and you can bet they’ll be info about Marvel and other franchises, as well.
We’ll be here recording the big content announcements for you, and the first has already dropped:
"Over the next few years, roughly 10 @Marvel series, 10 @StarWarsseries, 15 Disney live action, @DisneyAnimation, and @Pixar series, plus 15 all-new Disney live action, Disney Animation, and Pixar features will be released directly on @DisneyPlus."
Holy god, that is a lot of TV shows, and pretty much confirms that the rumors about an exploding Star Wars TV universe beyond The Mandalorian is true.
A release date for Raya and the Last Dragon:
Disney has a f**kton of subscribers for its streaming platforms:
Expect more original content coming to Hulu, which Disney owns, if you forgot:
Saturday Night Live cast member Kate McKinnon will play Silicon Valley swindler Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout on Hulu. Including the hilarious McKinnon was the one and only way to get me interested in another story about Elizabeth Holmes, so kudos.
Next up, The Handmaid’s Tale season 5 is officially coming to Hulu! And the cast has a message for fans:
Lots of old shows coming back to FX:
And there will be FOUR new seasons of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia!
Some other cool new shows coming include comics adaptation Y: The Last Man and a show based on Alien:
There’s also a new show called Shōgun coming. According to the presenter, it’s “set within the real game of thrones that was feudal Japan…”
New Star Wars shows are officially coming, including one about Ahsoka Tano:
These shows will be related and culminate in a “story event.”
We got a preview for the upcoming Cassian Andor series, simply called Andor. Check out the trailer:
Here’s a big one: “Hayden Christensen is returning in the role of Darth Vader.” He’ll be in the upcoming show about Obi-Wan Kenobi, set 10 years after the events of Revenge of the Sith. He and Obi-Wan will have “the rematch of the century.”
Whoa.
All we got was the logo:
A look at The Bad Batch, the upcoming animated Clone Wars show:
A new short film series Visions will give Star Wars the anime treatment:
A Lando Calrissian show is coming:
We finally have some more info about Leslye Headland’s “female-centric” Star Wars show. There will also be a project starring R2-D2 and C-3PO called A Droid Story:
Moving beyond Star Wars, Warwick Davis will return in a new show that continues the story told in Ron Howard’s 1988 fantasy film Willow:
The “final” Indiana Jones film is coming:
Disney is adapting Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood & Bone:
Kathleen Kennedy mentioned Taika Waititi is writing his new Star Wars movie, and there’s another one — a Star Wars movie called Rogue Squadron — coming in 2023, from Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins.
A Beauty and the Beast show is coming, all about Gaston and LeFou, played by Luke Evans and Josh Gad like in the recent movie. The rumors were true. Yay?
A Lion King prequel movie is coming. Plus, meet the cast of the upcoming The Little Mermaid remake:
A sneak peak at the upcoming live-action remake of Pinocchio:
There’s a TV show based on Big Hero 6 coming, all about nurse-bot Baymax. Beyond that, we’ve got musical series about Tiana from The Princess and the Frog and Moana from Moana:
Pixar is making Lightyear, the fictional movie that inspired the fictional toy Buzz Lightyear, voiced by Chris Evans:
Okay, time for the Marvel stuff. First up, a new trailer for WandaVision, coming out January 15:
The upcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will connect both to WandaVision and the as-yet-unsubtitled Spider-Man 3:
A preview for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the next MCU series to debut on Disney+ after WandaVision:
Look out for it on March 19. And after that, the new Loki show is coming in May:
The animated show What If…? will explore the Marvel Cinematic Universe from all kinds of mind-bending new angles:
The full cast of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the first official movie of Phase 4 of the MCU:
A preview of the Ms. Marvel show on the way:
Captain Marvel 2 and The Eternals are both coming:
The rumors are once again true: Haile Steinfeld will be playing Kate Bishop on the upcoming Hawkeye show:
We’ve got another pair of Marvel shows on the way: She-Hulk and Moon Knight. Kevin Feige confirmed that the original Hulk will indeed appear in She-Hulk!
Say it with me: the rumors were true. Samual L. Jackson will star in a Marvel star called Secret Invasion. There’s also an Ironman-like show Ironheart on the way:
MCU vet Don Cheadle returns as War Machine in a new show called Armor Wars:
Fun little Guardians of the Galaxy side-stories are coming:
Christian Bale will play the villain in the third Guardians of the Galaxy movie! Plus, the Blade movie with Mahershala Ali continues to come together:
Ant-Man 3 is coming. So is Black Panther 2, although Kevin Feige confirmed that they will not be recasting the title role.
Finally, Spider-Man: Far From Home director is officially making a movie about the Fantastic Four!
And finally, a sizzle real of everything on the way:
And that’s it! Whew, that was a lot of info. What do you make of it?
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