Marvel Delays Deadpool 3, Fantastic Four, Avengers: Secret Wars, Blade Release Dates

Meanwhile, Disney gives Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes an exact date.

Written by Akhil Arora, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna | Updated: 12 October 2022 12:01 IST

Marvel Delays Deadpool 3, Fantastic Four, Avengers: Secret Wars, Blade Release Dates

Photo Credit: Disney/20th Century Studios, Matt Petit/AMPAS, Disney/Marvel Studios

Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, Blade actor Mahershala Ali, and John Krasinski as Reed Richards

Highlights

Blade sees largest delay of 10 months, moved to late 2024
Deadpool 3 and Fantastic Four receive the shortest delays
Secret Wars to now release a year after The Kang Dynasty

Release dates for Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 5 and Phase 6 movies are on the move. With Blade losing its director late last month and Marvel Studios hitting pause on the film until it can find a new director, Disney has announced a refreshed release calendar for the MCU's 2023, 2024, and 2025 entries. Four of them, to be precise. The aforementioned Blade is seeing the largest delay, being pushed back 10 months. Avengers: Secret Wars, the sixth Avengers movie that was originally set to release within six months of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, has been delayed as many months. Meanwhile, both Deadpool 3 and Fantastic Four have been driven back a few months.

Here are the exact dates for those interested. The Mahershala Ali-led Blade is jumping from November 3, 2023 to September 6, 2024. In doing so, it takes over Deadpool 3's date that was announced late last month. Naturally then, the Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman-led Deadpool 3 had to be pushed — though only a couple of months to November 8, 2024. That slot belonged to the Fantastic Four reboot from WandaVision director Matt Shakman, which has resulted in the film about Marvel's first family being delayed three months to February 14, 2025. There are now also unconfirmed reports that Deadpool 3 will begin MCU Phase 6, not Fantastic Four.

Anyway, what is confirmed — for now anyway — is that Fantastic Four will now open less than three months ahead of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty on May 2, 2025, the first Avengers film since Avengers: Endgame in 2019, one that's expected to have Jonathan Majors' Kang the Conqueror as the main villain. 2025 was going to be huge for Marvel Studios and the MCU as audiences were going to be treated to two Avengers films in the span of six months. But the six-month delay to Avengers: Secret Wars means it is going from November 7, 2025 to May 1, 2026. There's now a year-long gap between The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars, which is how it was between Endgame and Avengers: Infinity War.

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Lastly, Disney — which also owns 20th Century Studios — has set a May 24, 2024 release date for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, the follow-up to Andy Serkis-led Matt Reeves-directed War for the Planet of the Apes from The Maze Runner director Wes Ball.

Here is the updated MCU movie calendar in chronological fashion —

MCU Phase 4 movies

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — November 11

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MCU Phase 5 movies

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania — February 17, 2023

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 — May 5, 2023

The Marvels — July 28, 2023

Captain America: New World Order — May 3, 2024

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Thunderbolts — July 26, 2024

Blade — September 6, 2024

MCU Phase 6 movies

Deadpool 3 — November 8, 2024

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Fantastic Four — February 14, 2025

Avengers: The Kang Dynasty — May 2, 2025

Untitled MCU Phase 6 movie — July 25, 2025

Untitled MCU Phase 6 movie — November 7, 2025

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Avengers: Secret Wars — May 1, 2026

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Blade

Release Date 7 November 2025
Language English
Genre Superhero
Cast
Mahershala Ali, Delroy Lindo, Aaron Pierre
Director
Bassam Tariq
Producer
Kevin Feige

Deadpool & Wolverine

Release Date 26 July 2024
Language English
Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy, Superhero
Cast
Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman
Director
Shawn Levy
Producer
Kevin Feige, Simon Kinberg

Fantastic Four

Release Date 2 May 2025
Language English
Genre Action, Adventure, Superhero
Producer
Kevin Feige

Avengers: Secret Wars

Release Date 7 May 2027
Language English
Genre Superhero
Producer
Kevin Feige

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Release Date 10 May 2024
Language English
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Cast
Owen Teague, Freya Allen, Peter Macon, William H. Macy, Kevin Durand, Dichen Lachman, Neil Sandilands, Eka Darville, Sara Wiseman, Lydia Peckham, Travis Jeffery, Ras-Samuel, Nina Gallas
Director
Wes Ball
Producer
Joe Hartwick Jr., Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Jason Reed

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