Marvel Studios officially unveiled its full slate of series on Disney+ for 2025 in a new sizzle reel released on Wednesday, including first looks at live-action series “Daredevil: Born Again,” “Ironheart” and “Wonder Man,” and animated series “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man,” “Eyes of Wakanda” and “Marvel Zombies.”
“Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” will start things off on Jan. 29; the animated series will bring some new characters to the story of Peter Parker’s first year as the web-slinger, including Nico Minoru (from the Runaways team) and Amadeus Cho (who is a new Hulk in the comics).
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Marvel previously announced that “Daredevil: Born Again” will debut on March 4, but the teaser finally provides the first robust look at the show, which will continue the events from the “Daredevil” series that ran on Netflix for three seasons from 2015 to 2018. Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock and Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin have already popped up a few times, including on the Disney+ series “Hawkeye,” “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” and “Echo.” Also returning: Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle (aka the Punisher) and Wilson Bethel as Benjamin “Dex” Poindexter (aka Bullseye). The teaser also includes a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shot of the menacing white-masked villain, Muse.
On June 24, “Ironheart” — which continues the story of the genius inventor Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne), first introduced in 2022’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” — will finally debut after starting production in June 2022. As the teaser showcases Riri’s prowess with her super suit, we hear Anthony Ramos as the villain, Parker Robbins (aka the Hood), spell out his morally dubious philosophy: “Anyone who’s ever accomplished anything iconic in life has had to do some questionable things to get it done.”
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The teaser only offered two tantalizing shots from the animated series “Eyes of Wakanda,” which will detail the efforts of the Wakandan War Dogs throughout the nation’s history to recover vibranium artifacts. The four-episode series will premiere on Aug. 6.
“Marvel Zombies” — in which many of the studio’s most beloved superheroes, including Captain America, Scarlet Witch, Captain Marvel and Clint Barton, become part of an army of the undead — will be Marvel’s first TV-MA animated show. Naturally, it is set to debut in October 2025.
The most striking revelation in the teaser came in the brief footage from “Wonder Man,” starring Emmy winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (“Watchmen,” “Aquaman”) as Simon Williams. In the comics, the character is a business scion who runs afoul of Stark Industries en route to becoming the titular superhero, but in the teaser, we first meet Abdul-Mateen’s Simon as an actor auditioning to play Wonder Man — setting up the show to be a meta comedy about Hollywood and superhero storytelling. We also get a taste of what happens when Simon crosses paths with Trevor Slattery, Ben Kingsley’s layabout actor from “Iron Man 3” and “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.” The show will debut in December 2025.
The studio also announced that the third and final season of of “What If…?” — the animated series that explores the multiverse for alternative storylines for familiar characters — will debut at the end of this year, on Dec. 22. The show will likely repeat the release pattern for Season 2, when a new episode debuted every day from Dec. 22, 2023 through the rest of the month.
The expansive slate of TV titles (which leaked online on Tuesday) is curious, given that Disney CEO Bob Iger has made clear he believes Marvel made too many shows for Disney+ in the early years of the streamer. During an earnings call in May, Iger even said that Marvel would reduce its output “to probably about two TV series a year.” Instead, between its three live-action shows, three animated shows and three feature films (“Captain America: Brave New World,” “Thunderbolts*” and “The Fantastic Four: First Steps”), Marvel has committed to release nine titles in 2025, more-or-less equalling the studio’s pandemic-crunched output in 2021.
Watch the full sizzle reel below.
