MCU Phase 3: Have it your way

[pr0xyt0xin]

It was quite a while ago we heard about the Phase 2 lineup and how it can be assumed the standard will be 5 lead-in/solo films for every Avengers film. Phase 3 is roughly 4 years away which means its about time we started speculating. :P

Which solo films do you see setting up Avengers 3 in Phase 3? If youre feeling particularly rambunctious, you can even share your thoughts on subtitles. Five seems to be the magic number but try to keep it between 4 and 6. As it is unlikely we will see more or less than that.

Personally I'd like to see the following:

(Avengers 2: Ultron Imperative, May 2015)
Ant-Man (November 2015)

Captain America 3: Man Out of Time (May 2016)
Doctor Strange (November 2016)
Thor 3: Flames of Surtur (April/May 2017)
Black Panther (August 2017)

Avengers 3 part 1: Thanos Quest (May 2018)
Ms. Marvel/Captain Marvel (November 2018)

Guardians of the Galaxy: War of Kings (May 2019)
Avengers 3 part 2: Infinity Gauntlet (November 2019)

2020 and beyond:
Planet Hulk/World War Hulk
sequels to GotG, Black Panther, Doctor Strange
Namor the Submariner, Silver Surfer, The Inhumans, The Defenders
IM, Cap, Thor reboots?

[Silvermoth]

I can't really imagine a Ms Marvel movie (What would it be about? Who would be the characters?) but I could see Black Panther.

So hopefully my Phase 3 would be like...

Cap 3
Iron Man 4
Thor 3
Incredible Hulk 2: Planet Hulk
Black Panther
The Inhumans

and then in the world of television (but still in continuity with the Marvel Universe)

Shield season 7
She Hulk
Daredevil maybe?

[Hypestyle]

Bring in JJ Abrams, Reggie Hudlin to direct some films...

[R_Hythlodeus]

I'm not sure Avengers 2 will be the end of Phase II....

[Lord]

I was planing to make this thread once the time was closer
Here's how i think it may be:
2016 - Thor: Journey into Mystery/ Black Panther
2017 - Captain American: Sentinel of Liberty/ Guardians of the Galaxy 2
2018 - Dr.Strange/ The Avengers 3

[KangConquers]

2014 will be Marvel's first 3 film year. Feige once said the hope was to get up to 4 films, so I opted to give 2017 4.


2016:

The Incredible Hulk 2- Summer
Iron Man 4- Summer
Thor: Ragnarok- Fall

2017:

Black Panther- Spring
Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty- Summer
Guardians of the Galaxy: War of Kings- Summer
Doctor Strange- Fall

2018:

Avengers 3 Pt 1- Summer
Avengers 3 Pt 2- Winter

[pr0xyt0xin]

Originally Posted by KangConquers

2018:

Avengers 3 Pt 1- Summer
Avengers 3 Pt 2- Winter

mind: blown.

[KangConquers]

Originally Posted by pr0xyt0xin

mind: blown.

Everyone's doing it this days, and when you consider that A3 wouldn't just be the closing of a trilogy, but the end (or at least the biggest event) in a film series counting 20 tent poles, it should be suitably epic.

[Lord]

Originally Posted by KangConquers

Everyone's doing it this days, and when you consider that A3 wouldn't just be the closing of a trilogy, but the end (or at least the biggest event) in a film series counting 20 tent poles, it should be suitably epic.

It's probably going to close this "story arc", but i doubt Marvel will reboot after that, they said they were planing for this to go like the James Bond films, so after that i think that the most they will do is recasting many of the roles and go into a new direction.

[pr0xyt0xin]

Originally Posted by R_Hythlodeus

I'm not sure Avengers 2 will be the end of Phase II....

Please, go on.

Originally Posted by Lord

I was planing to make this thread once the time was closer
Here's how i think it may be:
2016 - Thor: Journey into Mystery/ Black Panther
2017 - Captain American: Sentinel of Liberty/ Guardians of the Galaxy 2
2018 - Dr.Strange/ The Avengers 3

My sincerest apologies. But just think of all the potential thread necromancy, my Lord.

BTW, I was this close to using Thor: Journey Into Mystery as well. thats a cool title fosho.

[Lord]

Originally Posted by pr0xyt0xin

Please, go on.



My sincerest apologies. But just think of all the potential thread necromancy, my Lord.

That's right

BTW, I was this close to using Thor: Journey Into Mystery as well. thats a cool title fosho.

Yeah, i remember somebody wondering why Thor 2 didn't have that subtitle so i wondered that maybe it would be cool for the 3rd film or any Thor film for that matter.

[R_Hythlodeus]

Originally Posted by pr0xyt0xin

Please, go on.



My sincerest apologies. But just think of all the potential thread necromancy, my Lord.

BTW, I was this close to using Thor: Journey Into Mystery as well. thats a cool title fosho.

As far as I know there was no official word on when Phase 2 will be finished or what makes a 'Phase' a 'Phase'. Phases could also refer to meta plots (like the 'birth' of the MCU, the arrival of superheroes culminating in the foundation of the Avengers in Phase 1) and those meta plots don't necessarily have to end with every Avenger movie. We don't know anything of the meta plot of Phase 2 yet. We only saw a glimpse of Thanos, which could mean anything...

[pr0xyt0xin]

oh most definitely. I'm surprised it hasn't even crossed my mind. It seems quite likely to happen. I'd say both in one year is slightly far fetched, but its not like Marvel/Disney is above taking risks with this franchise. What a great year that would be.

[Chewy]

May 2016 - Thor 3
December 2016 - Captain Marvel
May 2017 - Captain America 3
November 2017 - Guardians of the Galaxy: Annihilation
May 2018 - The Avengers 3

[pr0xyt0xin]

I think Avengers will be a solid trilogy, 4 if you count a two-parter (damm thats a cool idea.) but after that it might be put on the back burner a while. Make a bunch of character movies that take people's minds off of RDJ and Tom Hiddleston and whoever else blows us away in the next 6 years.

They may have been thinking very long term when they wanted Galactus/Surfer back. I mean, after Avengers 3, if you pile together some new names (Strange, Namor or Fantastic Four) you practically got a whole new MCU for a while. Until they find a worthy successor to the core four.

[MovieMaster]

2016:

Summer - Doctor Strange
Winter - Thor: Journey Into Mystery

2017:

Spring - Black Panther
Summer - Captain America: Sentinel Of Liberty
Winter - The Black Widow (Origin story)

2018:

Spring - Namor The Sub-Mariner
Summer - Guardians of the Galaxy: Annihilation
Winter - The Avengers: Age of Ultron

2019:

Summer - Doctor Strange 2
Winter - Marvel's The Infinity Gauntlet Part One: The Thanos Quest

2020:

Summer - Marvel's The Infinity Gauntlet Part Two: The Wrath of Thanos
Winter - Marvel's The Infinity Gauntlet Part Three: The Infinity War

[Aztec]

Originally Posted by MovieMasterCBM

2016:

Marvel's The Infinity Gauntlet Part One: The Thanos Quest
[/B][/U]Marvel's The Infinity Gauntlet Part Two: The Wrath of Thanos
Marvel's The Infinity Gauntlet Part Three: The Infinity War

Yes sir!!

MCU Phase I:
Iron Man
The Incredible Hulk
Iron Man 2
Thor
Captain America: The First Avenger
Marvel's The Avengers

MCU Phase II:
Iron Man 3
Thor: The Dark World
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Guardians of the Galaxy
Ant-Man
Marvel's The Avengers: The Ultron War

MCU Phase III:
Thor: Ragnarok
Captain America: World War Three
Guardians of the Galaxy: Annihilation
Black Panther
Dr. Strange

Marvel's The Infinity Gauntlet Part One: The Thanos Imperative
Marvel's The Infinity Gauntlet Part Two: End of Worlds
Marvel's The Infinity Gauntlet Part Three: The Infinity War

[gzilla46]

Howard the Duck Reboot -2015

Hulk 2 - 2014

I can't think of anything else.

[Spider-Vader]

Originally Posted by KangConquers

Basically I see a transitional block of films in the late 10's early 20's, Involving new properties, sequels to phase 2 and 3 properties, and maybe a surprise return to the marvel camp (Fantastic 4?) before they recast the big 3 Avengers.

I think Marvel Studios will do a reboot of the entire MCU if they ever get the rights to Spider-Man, X-Men & Fantastic Four back. I don't see those franchises fitting into a MCU that already has a lot of history. & then once Marvel has those franchises back, I think we'll finally see the "James Bond" approach to comic book movies. Unless DC does it first....lol I kid, DC will never do anything first in comic book movies again.

Anyway, I think Phase III might be the start of the street heroes. Perhaps they can even start taking over as the main characters of the MCU, since I'm going to assume Downey, Evans & Hemsworth won't stick around after Avengers 3.

[GoblinScrier]

Hopefully by the end of Phase 3, the F4 have returned to Marvel and ultimately, I want to see a bid for intergalactic dominion between Thanos and the only one to challenge him for supremacy....DOOM!!!

[Avid Avenger]

Potatoed this on reddit a few days ago...how I'd like the MCU to go

Okay it goes
2008 Iron Man The Incredible Hulk
2010 Iron Man 2
2011 Thor Captain America: The First Avenger
2012 The Avengers
2013 Iron Man 3 *S.H.I.E.L.D T.V series (Summer to maybe end of Autumn depending on length) Thor: The Dark World
2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier Guardians of the Galaxy *Hulk t.v series (spring to autumn) *Daredevil T.V series (first half 12 episodes in Winter) *The Amazing Spider-man 2 *Ant-Man
2015 Daredevil T.V series (second half 12 episodes in spring) The Avengers 2 *S.H.I.E.L.D second series (in the summer) *Punisher T.V series (maybe about 15 episodes in the autumn to winter)
2016 Thor: The Enchantress Captain America: Return of the Red Skull Daredevil second series (autumn to winter)
2017 The Amazing Spider-man 3 *Black Panther Hulk second series (summer to autumn/early winter) Punisher second series (first half winter)
2018 Punisher second series (second half in spring) *Dr Strange *Heroes for Hire (first series in summer) Guardians of the Galaxy 2
*2019 Iron Man 4 Captain America: Thor: The Amazing Spider-man 4
2020 The Avengers: Civil War Pt 1 (Easter time) The Avengers: Civil War Pt 2 (Summer time)
So explanations

• S.H.E.I.L.D series would focus on the aftermath of the event of The Avengers, specifically trying to clear up the mess of NYC, the publics knowledge/outcry of superheroes and the sudden uprise of 'wannabee' heroes and villians. Nick Fury would appear in a few episodes, mainly the premiere and finale episodes but the majority of it will be handled by Maria Hill. Perhaps even cameos from Black Widow and Hawkeye....and obviously mentions of the Avengers, like keeping tabs on them. New agent on the job, Jessica Drew, learns to cope with daily life within SHIELD and the series is mainly seen from her POV, entering this hectic world and her journey to becoming Spider-Woman. Cameos from the likes of Falcon, Agent Sitwell, Carol Danvers and Jimmy Woo. Other minor villans spanning across the Marvel universe. This show would have minor crossovers with the other MCU shows.

I'm sure there's enough material for a second and maybe 3rd series but I ain't got enough knowledge
In the second series, Carol Danvers would become Ms Marvel somehow, Jessica Jones would become Spider-Woman and the likes of Iron Fist and Luke Cage would be seen.

• Hulk t.v series will show what Banner is doing after the Avengers. With the knowledge on how to control the Hulk, Banner is able to keep his emotions in check and travel around the poorer countries and help those in need. it's at this point Banner meets the young Rick Jones whom he takes on as a sidekick. However the likes of General Thunderbolt Ross (a.k.a the Red Hulk) and The Leader amongst other villains (such as Jackdaw, Juggernaut, Rhino and Ringmaster and a return of the Abomination). All actors/actresses from the Incredible Hulk movie should reprise their roles and Banner/Hulk is of course played by Ruffalo. In the S.H.I.E.L.D show, certain information would be seen on screens or even mentioned about Banner and his movements.
• Ant-Man Origins of Ant-Man and Wasp, don't know about the story but perhaps the baddie is Egghead or....Whirlwind or something I dunno....during the movie they become SHIELD agents and once they defeat whoever it is, Fury decides to add them to the Avengers roster.
• Daredevil series would be more detached from the other shows, but should still have an odd reference here and there to the rest of the MCU. The first series is generally his origin, showing his backstory in flashbacks and him and his conflict within Hells Kitchen. Kingpin will be the primary antagonist with the likes of Elektra,Bullseye, The Jester, Mister Fear and The Punisher (cameo in a 2 or 3 partner from his own series). Foggy Nelson will of course appear and even a cameo from Moon Knight as well. Ben Urich and the Daily Bugle will also appear, maybe a cameo from J.J.J. as well, not sure yet.
• The Amazing Spider-man 2 Yes, I'm bringing in the Amazing Spider-man series into the MCU because I don't want to leave him out of this wonderful story. Anyway basically ASM2 will stay within itself but just and odd eater egg to the rest of the MCU. The 3rd movie should have the death of Gwen Stacy and the Green Goblin. SHIELD would appear for a moment with Nick Fury as Peter, struggling with the death of Gwen, decides he needs help with stopping Osborn. Fury believes Peter can do it on his own. Peter can't join the Avengers until he's 18...or 21...Whichever.
• The Punisher series will be dark and gritty and gory, on par with the Walking Dead and be pretty contained and even further away from The Avengers side of the MCU however will feature easter eggs and crossovers with Daredevil, specifically with them fighting each other at some point and sharing an enemy or 2 (The Kingpin and Bullseye). I ain't got much to say but it's just showing The Punisher being him, his reasons for doing what he does and facing baddies, notably Jigsaw, Hitman, Elite, Payback, Finn Cooley and The Russian.
• For the third installments I'd just keep them on track with where the current one is going, I just added two crappy subtitles there featuring the possible villains (The Enchantress and Red Skull again)
• Black Panther movie would obviously show his origins, his country and everything like that and in the end Black Panther is seen talking the Henry Pym and Wasp over Vibranium and they extend an invitation to him to join the Avengers.
• Guardians of the Galaxy 2. I have no idea...maybe Kang the Conqueror or something....if anything I wouldn't have a sequel to them unless they made the 3rd Avengers another cosmic force to deal with instead of the Civil War route I've taken.
• Dr Strange movie would show his origins and open up the magical part of the MCU and the villain would be Baron Mordo. Not really much I can say on this but I reckon near the end he'll decide to try either join the Avengers or then start his own group, thus creating the 'Marvel Knights' with Daredevil, Moon Knight and Shang-chi.
• Heroes for Hire would be either a short series maybe 6 hour long episodes which shows Luke Cage (Power Man), Iron Fist, White Tiger, She-Hulk (who could cameo in SHEILD, Daredevil or Hulk) and Namor. The First episode is them joining together and flashbacks to origins or bits of backstory with the story showing them working together to tackle problems to big for ordinary people but too small for the Avengers to get involved. A second series, if there was one, could add in Ghost Rider, Silver Sable and Paladin...
• 2019 Would have final sequel movies for the main 3 Avengers, Iron Man, Cap and Thor and each would end somehow leading into 2020 and the Avengers Civil War.
• Yea a 2 parter....kinda like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was divided. A huge catastrophe like in the comics kills hundreds of innocent people and children which is blamed on superpowered people and causes an uprising within the general public and begins the superhero registration act....well you know the comics. This will have cameos and appearances from almost every hero and villian who isn't dead who has been introduced in the MCU movies and shows. Yea.... yea I know, that's pretty much the bare minimum needed to encompass the entire 616 universe which probably isn't needed for the MCU but still I'd love it to be like that

But yea through those next 8 years if you also include the DC movies to come out, plus non MCU movies like X-Men and Fantastic 4 then yea there is way to much.
Oh yes I know, I had Ultron typed up but wouldn't he need all the Avengers to be taken down, not just Ant-Man and Wasp? Thats why I didn't put him there as I wasn't sure really....but if I'm mistaken then by all means he'd be great to add.

[KangConquers]

As much as all the great complex phase 3 ideas are, I'm starting to think that judging by Phase 2, we'll only see 2 new franchises, and a slate like this:


2016:

Iron Man 4 (May)
Black Panther (July)
Thor 3 (November)

2017:

Captain America 3 (May)
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (July)
Ant-Man 2 (November)

2018:

Doctor Strange (May)
The Incredible Hulk 2 (July)

2019:

Avengers 3


Sequels for Guardians and Ant-Man assuming those films pass a certain level of expectation (and in the case of Ant-Man, assuming the first one makes it for a 2014-2015 release date.)

[Jick09]

I want to see Black Panther, Doctor Strange and Iron Fist/Luke Cage. That's all I know.

[Union Jack]

i'd like to see a potential excalibur or invaders movie.
would love to see captain britain or joey chapmans Union Jack on the big screen.

[DrCosmic]

Hmmm....
SHIELD TV Show Season 2, Fall 2015
- Agents, Non Powered Carol Danvers fight HYDRA, gets powers just before Avengers 2
Phase II ends, Avengers 2, May 2015
SHIELD TV Show Season 3, Fall 2015
- Ms. Marvel, Quake, Brand, Agents vs Kree
Ant-Man 2/Giant Man, April 2016
- Vision, Ultron (if not already), Wasp, vs MODOK/AIM
Black Panther, May 2016
- Klaw, Vibranium, uber smart stealth hero
SHIELD TV Show Season 4, Fall 2016
- Ms. Marvel, Spider-Woman, Brand, Quake vs Skrulls
Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty, August 2016
- Viper and all sorts of HYDRA fun, Super Adaptoids and etcetera
Iron Man 4/War Machine, October 2016
- Depending on RDJ, Rhodes may take a bigger role, fight Ghost/Titanium Man
Dr. Strange, May 2017
- Baron Mordo, the Ancient One, Dormammu, redeemed jerk hero
SHIELD TV Show Season 6, Fall 2017
- Ms. Marvel, Quasar, Brand, vs Kree vs Skrulls
Thor 3: Ragnarok, August 2017
- Ymir, Surtur, Loki, the whole nine
Planet Hulk, November 2017
- Planet Hulk, basically
Heroes for Hire, April 2018
- Iron Fist and Luke Cage origins,
Avengers 3, May 2018
- Infinity Gauntlet/Thanos Finale, lots of big stuff happening
Phase III Ends, New Avengers are set up if Classic Avengers don't renew contracts/can't be recast

Give new heroes May releases, hit hard off the success of Avengers 2, pull back to hit hard again with Avengers 3. That's 8 movies in between as oppose to Phase I's 5, or Phase II's 5.