Are three series enough for the Disney+ Marvel Studios programming for the upcoming year?
Due to Phase 4’s mediocre performance in both movies and TV shows, 2022 could not be the finest year for Marvel. The studios are now in a position to make amends in the upcoming year. One of the shows Marvel released in 2022 was She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, which has the lowest Rotten Tomatoes audience score of any Marvel live-action television show with a 33% rating. Fans, however, are anticipating that the studios would release more high-caliber programming in 2023. However, Disney just announced how many Marvel Studios programs will be available on Disney+ in 2023, and the news is not at all encouraging.
Disney+ Japan announced three MCU streaming projects that would be available on the platform in 2019 in an online article. Samuel L. Jackson will play Fury in the first film, The Secret Invasion, which comes out in the spring of 2023. As Maria Hill, Cobie Smulders will also make a comeback. The six-episode series, which will focus on a band of shape-shifting Skrulls that have been infiltrating Earth for years, has also been cast Game of Thrones veteran Emilia Clarke and Dublin Murders actor Killian Scott.
Following Tom Hiddleston’s Loki, Owen Wilson’s Mobius, and Sophia Di Martino’s Sylvie as they once again traverse the Marvel Multiverse with the assistance of series newcomer Ke Huy Quan, Loki season two will begin airing next summer. In September 2022, Hiddleston informed visitors of the D23 Expo that “Season 2 picks up where season 1 left off.” Loki has returned to the TVA, and Mobius doesn’t appear to recognize him. After Loki and Sylvie battled He Who Remains, also known as Kang (Jonathan Majors), in the Season 1 finale, we saw Loki in another universe.
Riri Williams of Dominique Thorne will feature in her own MCU streaming series, Ironheart, which is anticipated to launch on the streaming service in Fall 2023, following her MCU debut in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The program will follow a 19-year-old MIT student as she negotiates the challenges of being a superhero and one of the best students at her institution. Anthony Ramos, of Hamilton and In the Heights fame, will portray The Hood alongside Thorne. Veteran actor Lyric Ross from This Is Us will play Riri’s best pal.
The announcement of the aforementioned three titles came as no surprise to fans, given that Secret Invasion and Loki have always been slated for a 2023 release, and it was widely assumed Ironheart would as well, but fans were more surprised that other titles are missing from the Disney+ slate for next year, despite some of them previously being confirmed at San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC).
What if…? was set as the premiere date for Season 2 in early 2023, Summer 2023 for Echo, Fall 2023 for X-Men 97, and Winter 2023 for Agatha: Coven of Chaos. Fans can still hold out hope that these projects will be approved for a release later in 2023 even if they are now absent from the list and are more likely to be launched in 2024 or later.
