After months of shuffling Post-It notes stuck to whiteboards at the offices of Marvel Studios, they’re finally ready to tell us exactly what they’re doing for television for 2025, and the list is awesome.
The line-up for 2025 now looks like this:
- Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine, the highest grossing R-rated movie of all time, comes to the small screen on November 12.
- Marvel Animation’s What If…? returns for its highly anticipated third season with daily episodes beginning on December 22.
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man joins Marvel Animation’s lineup on January 29, 2025.
- Marvel Television’s Daredevil: Born Again original, live action series launches on March 4, 2025.
- Ironheart, an original, live action series from Marvel Television, debuts on June 24, 2025.
- From Marvel Animation, Eyes of Wakanda launches on August 6, 2025.
- Also from Marvel Animation, Marvel Zombies comes in time for Halloween in October 2025.
- Marvel Television’s Wonder Man original, live-action series is poised to release in December 2025.
Of particular note are:
Ironheart, the story of Riri Williams, who builds her own Iron Man suit like her idol, the now deceased Tony Stark. She’s played by Dominique Thorne; we saw her in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The series began preproduction in January of 2021, and finished post production on October 21, 2022. It’s been sitting on the shelf for three whole years. We’ve been waiting a long time for this one, and from the clips in the features trailer, it looks like it’s going to be worth the wait.
Personally, I think having Tony Stark stay dead in the MCU is problematic, because Iron Man is a centerpiece of the entire cinematic universe, and if you take that out, it’s like taking the center stick out of a Jenga pile. It might stand up on its own, but you might also have the whole thing come crashing down and have to rebuild everything from scratch. RiRi Williams, though, seems like a fresh, breathtaking new direction to go with.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, which explores Peter’s earliest days as the wisecracking wall crawling web slinger of New York, stars Hudson Thames as Peter Parker, but what’s interesting is the voice casting of a number of the other players. We have Charlie Cox as Daredevil, and Vincent D’Onofrio as Kingpin, and Kari Wahlgren, a seasoned voice actor, playing Aunt May. She’s also the voice of Kitana and Mileena from Mortal Kombat, Starfire from Injustice 2, Velma Green the Spider Queen from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, and a lot more.
Wonder Man, in which a Hollywood actor auditions for a part as a fictional hero called Wonder Man, but then gets superpowers after the fact. It stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in the title role. Wonder Man, in the pages of Marvel Comics, has been killed and resurrected so many times it’s hard to pin down exactly who this character is. At one point he led a team called the Revengers, who were convinced that the Avengers did more harm than good, and went after them. Not a fun look. The great advantage of introducing a relatively unknown comic book character (unknown to the viewing audience, that is, the comicbook fans among us have known about him for decades now) is that Kevin Feige et. al. have a chance to start the character with a clean slate, drawing on the bits of pieces of his mythos to build an entirely new one. It worked with Iron Man, it could work here too.
If there was any doubt that superhero movies and television content might not still be viable, I think we can say for the moment that yes, they still are.
What are you excited to see?
