This is not a drill. I repeat, this is not a drill. Marvel has finally announced solo films starring characters who are not white dudes.
Earlier today Marvel had a special media event, where they announced the titles and release dates of all of their upcoming movies through their Phase 3, including Captain Marvel and Black Panther.
Captain Marvel and Black Panther are getting movies.
Black Panther, which will star Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa, is slated to be in theaters November 3, 2017 and Captain Marvel (which will indeed be about Carol Danvers, something Feige blessedly confirmed) is scheduled for July 6, 2018.
Black Panther will be Marvel Studio’s first solo film starring a person of color and Captain Marvel will be their first starring someone who is not a cis man, unless they surprise and delight us with the casting for Doctor Strange.
In addition to Black Panther and Captain Marvel, Marvel also announced seven other movies, including Guardians of the Galaxy 2, which is had its release moved from July 2017 to May 2017. Here’s a handy chart of all of them and their release dates:
Captain America: Civil War | May 6, 2016 |
Doctor Strange | November 4, 2016 |
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 | May 5, 2017 |
Thor: Ragnarok | July 28, 2017 |
Black Panther | November 3, 2017 |
Avengers: Infinity War, Part 1 |
May 2018 |
Captain Marvel | July 6, 2018 |
Inhumans | November 2, 2018 |
Avengers: Infinity War, Part 2 |
May 2019 |
You can read more about event and the films here at Marvel’s official site.
Edit: Guardians of the Galaxy 2 info has been added. Thank you, Bria, for pointing out that it was missing!
And Guardians of the Galaxy 2 got bumped up to May 5, 2017!!!
Indeed it did! How did I forget that?