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Dune: The Alternative Edition Redux

 

A film that’s been admired, hated and puzzled-over in fairly equal amounts, writer/director David Lynch’s ambitious 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel gets an extensive fanediting treatment in Dune The Alternative Edition Redux. This is my third and final cut of an edit I first released in 2008 and again in 2009. As previously, it draws on the heavily cut Theatrical Version, the controversial Extended “TV” Version and a selection of Deleted Scenes and soundtrack cues.

Dune 2021 Litany Against Fear

I must not fear. 

Fear is the mind-killer. 

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. 

I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. 

And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. 

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. 

Only I will remain.

ABOUT THE FILM 

Dune is an upcoming epic science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve with a screenplay by Jon Spaihts, Villeneuve, and Eric Roth. based on the novel of the same name written by Frank Herbert.

 Villeneuve also produced the film with Mary Parent, Cale Boyter and Joe Caracciolo, Jr. The executive producers are Tanya Lapointe, Joshua Grode, Herbert W. Gains, Jon Spaihts, Thomas Tull, Brian Herbert, Byron Merritt and Kim Herbert.

The film is an international co-production of Canada, Hungary, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 

It is the first of a planned two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel of the same name by Frank Herbert, which will cover roughly the first half of the book. 

Cast 

 Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides 

 Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica 

 Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto Atreides 

 Josh Brolin as Gurney Halleck 

 Stellan Skarsgård as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen 

 Dave Bautista as Glossu Rabban 

 Stephen McKinley Henderson as Thufir Hawat 

 Zendaya as Chani 

 David Dastmalchian as Piter De Vries 

 Chang Chen as Dr. Wellington Yueh 

 Sharon Duncan-Brewster as Dr. Liet-Kynes 

 Charlotte Rampling as Gaius Helen Mohiam 

 Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho 

 Javier Bardem as Stilgar

 

Oscar nominee Denis Villeneuve (“Arrival,” “Blade Runner 2049”) directs Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ “Dune,” the big-screen adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal bestselling book.

 A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, “Dune” tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. 

As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet’s exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence—a commodity capable of unlocking humanity’s greatest potential—only those who can conquer their fear will survive. 

Dune Movie

Lisbeth Salander Cyber-Mastermind

Salander is a world-class computer hacker. Under the pseudonym "Wasp", she becomes a prominent figure in the international hacker community known as the Hacker Republic (similar to the group Anonymous). She uses her computer skills as a means to earn a living, doing investigative work for Milton Security. She has an eidetic memory and is skillful at concealing her identity; she possesses passports in different names, and disguises herself to travel undetected around Sweden and worldwide.

The survivor of a traumatic childhood, Salander is highly introverted and asocial, and has difficulty connecting to people and making friends. She is particularly hostile to men who abuse women, and takes special pleasure in exposing and punishing them. This is representative of Larsson's personal views and a major theme throughout the entire series. In the series, Blomkvist speculates that Salander might have Asperger syndrome. Her mental state is never definitively described, an ambiguity that many antagonists in the series try to use against her: her sexually abusive public guardian, Nils Bjurman, describes her as "a sick, murderous, insane fucking person", while her one-time jailer Dr. Peter Teleborian describes her as "paranoid", "psychotic", "obsessive", and an "egomaniacal psychopath".

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

Lisbeth Salander is introduced as a gifted, but deeply troubled, researcher and computer hacker working for Milton Security. Her boss, Dragan Armansky, commissions her to research disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist at the behest of a wealthy businessman, Henrik Vanger. When Blomkvist finds out that Salander hacked his computer, he hires her to assist him in investigating the disappearance of Vanger's grandniece, Harriet, 40 years earlier. Salander uses her research skills to uncover a series of murders, dating back decades and tied to Harriet's disappearance. During the investigation, Salander and Blomkvist become lovers. 

Salander is played as an adult by Noomi Rapace in the original film.

Lisbeth Salander does not possess a moral code or moral principles: rather, she has a set of very sharpened moral reflexes that cause her to behave with ruthless consistency towards perceived injustice (i.e. violence against women) in her immediate world.

All the talk of Lizbeth’s sickness discounts the importance of what made her that way. She deeply loved, then defended with violence (against a violent monster, the only alternative) her mother. She visits her until mother’s early death, felt to be caused by the rotten life that man gave the two. Her heroism is called violence against society by the “justice” system. But with a child’s purity of thought, she knows society is wrong. 

In the 2011 film adaptation of the first book, Salander is played by Rooney Mara, who received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress on January 24, 2012 for her performance.

The role of Mikael Blomkvist is played by Daniel Craig.

The Girl Who Played With Fire (2006)

Begins with Salander's returning to Sweden after having traveled for a year. Shortly afterward, Salander is falsely implicated in the murder of three people: Bjurman and two of Blomkvist's colleagues. The frame-up is in fact a conspiracy between her biological father, former Soviet spy Alexander Zalachenko, and the Section, an illegal faction within Säpo, the Swedish Security Service, whose members had protected her father after he defected from the USSR. Zalachenko had been a high-ranking member of the GRU, and his defection was regarded by Säpo as an intelligence windfall, thus leading to the Section's covering up his subsequent illegal activities. Zalachenko had his son (and Salander's half-brother) Ronald Neidermann kill Blomkvist's colleagues, who were writing an exposé article on Zalachenko and Neidermann's prostitution ring, and Bjurman, a former Säpo employee who would have been exposed in the article as Salander's rapist. The Section then falsely incriminates Salander to cover up their concealment of Zalachenko's crimes.

The novel expands upon Salander's childhood. She is portrayed as having been an extremely bright but asocial child who would violently lash out at anyone who threatened or picked on her. This was in part the result of a troubled home life; Zalachenko repeatedly beat her mother but escaped punishment because the Section perceived his value to the Swedish State as being more important than her mother's civil rights.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (2009) 

Salander is arrested for the assault on Zalachenko, while she recuperates in the hospital. Zalachenko, who is a patient in the same hospital, is murdered by someone in the Section, who then tries to kill Salander; fortunately, Salander's lawyer (Annika Giannini, Blomkvist's sister) has barred the door. The would-be assassin then commits suicide.

Due to her deep-seated mistrust of authority, Salander refuses at first to cooperate in any way with her defense, relying instead on her friends in Sweden's hacker community. They eventually help Blomkvist discover the full scope of the Section's conspiracy, which he strives to publish at the risk of his own life. Salander eventually writes, and passes to Giannini, an exact description of the sexual abuse she suffered at Bjurman's hands, but written in such a way as to make it sound hallucinatory so as to mislead the prosecution.

Stieg Larsson planned the series as having 10 installments, but completed only three before his sudden death in 2004. All three were published posthumously: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in 2005, The Girl Who Played with Fire in 2006, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest in 2007.

The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) 

Written by David Lagercrantz as a continuation of the original series, Salander is hired by scientist Frans Balder to find out who hacked his network and stole his quantum computer technology. She hacks into the network of his company, Solifon, and discovers that his data was stolen by a criminal organization called the "Spider Society", with help from accomplices within Solifon and the National Security Agency. When Balder is murdered, Salander, with Blomkvist's help, saves Balder's autistic son August from the Spider Society's assassins, and she is badly wounded in the process. She bonds with August, a fellow math prodigy, and becomes his protector.

Salander learns the Spider Society is led by her twin sister Camilla, a sociopath who as a child tormented her and delighted in the abuse their mother suffered at their father's hands. Camilla sends assassin Jan Holtster to kill Salander and August. Salander overpowers Holtster, however, and gives the police August's drawing of him. She has an opportunity to shoot Camilla during her escape, but cannot bring herself to kill her sister and allows her to get away.

In the 2018 movie, Salander is portrayed by Claire Foy.

Continuation novels

The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (2017)

Written by David Lagercrantz as a continuation of the original series.

Lisbeth Salander is serving a two month jail sentence for the crimes she committed while protecting August Balder. After threats arise against her, she is transferred to maximum security Flodberga Prison, which she finds rife with corruption. She also discovers that Bangladeshi prisoner Faria Kasi is tormented nightly by ruthless prisoner Beatrice "Benito" Andersson.

One day, Salander is visited by former guardian Holger Palmgren. During their conversation, Palmgren tells her about a visit he received from a former secretary from St Stefan's, where she was committed as a child, who gave him Salander's medical files which has led him to believe she was involved in something called the Registry. Suspicious, Salander forces the Warden to let her use his computer, where she learns the Registry is a secret project that places exceptional children in specific environments to test the effects on their growth.

Unable to do anything from prison, Salander asks journalist Mikael Blomkvist to investigate in her stead, pointing him to wealthy businessman Leo Mannheimer, whose name was in the Registry file she found. During his investigation, Blomkvist learns that Mannheimer had been acting strangely lately and comes to suspect that not only does he have a twin, Dan Brody, but Brody has been going around pretending to be Mannheimer.

The Girl Who Lived Twice (2019)

Lagercrantz' third and final novel in the series.

Mikael Blomkvist is trying to reach Lisbeth Salander—the fierce, unstoppable girl with the dragon tattoo. He needs her help unraveling the identity of a man who died with Blomkvist's phone number in his pocket—a man who does not exist in any official records and whose garbled last words hinted at knowledge that would be dangerous to important people. But Lisbeth has disappeared. She's sold her apartment in Stockholm. She's gone dark. She's told no one where she is. And no one is aware that at long last she's got her primal enemy, her twin sister, Camilla, squarely in her sights.

Sources:

https://stieglarsson.com/inside-the-mind-of-lisbeth-salander/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbeth_Salander#Portrayals_in_films

Lisbeth Salander

https://millenniumtrilogy.fandom.com/wiki/Lisbeth_Salander

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_(novel_series)

Terminators A Look Back at the Terminator Films

A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation. 

 In 1984 Los Angeles, a cyborg assassin known as a Terminator arrives from 2029. Kyle Reese, a human soldier sent back in time from the same year, arrives shortly afterwards. The Terminator begins systematically killing women named Sarah Connor, whose addresses it finds in the telephone directory. It tracks the last Sarah Connor to a nightclub, but Kyle rescues her. The pair steal a car and escape with the Terminator pursuing them in a police car. 

 In Rome, Italy, during the release of Piranha II: The Spawning (1982), director Cameron fell ill and had a dream about a metallic torso holding kitchen knives dragging itself from an explosion. Inspired by director John Carpenter, who had made the slasher film Halloween (1978) on a low budget, Cameron used the dream as a "launching pad" to write a slasher-style film. Cameron's agent disliked the early concept of the horror film and requested that he work on something else. After this, Cameron dismissed his agent.

 Cameron returned to Pomona, California, and stayed at the home of science fiction writer Randall Frakes, where he wrote the draft for The Terminator. Cameron's influences included 1950s science fiction films, the 1960s fantasy television series The Outer Limits, and contemporary films such as The Driver (1978) and Mad Max 2 (1981). To translate the draft into a script, Cameron enlisted his friend Bill Wisher, who had a similar approach to storytelling. Cameron gave Wisher scenes involving Sarah Connor and the police department to write. As Wisher lived far from Cameron, the two communicated ideas by recording tapes of what they wrote by telephone. Frakes and Wisher would later write the US-released novelization of the movie. 

 The initial outline of the script involved two Terminators being sent to the past. The first was similar to the Terminator in the film, while the second was made of liquid metal and could not be destroyed with conventional weaponry. Cameron felt that the technology of the time was unable to create the liquid Terminator, and returned to the idea with the T-1000 character in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).

 Writer Harlan Ellison stated that he "loved the movie, was just blown away by it", but believed that the screenplay was based on a short story and episode of The Outer Limits he had written, titled "Soldier", and threatened to sue for infringement. Orion settled in 1986 and gave Ellison an undisclosed amount of money and an acknowledgment credit in later prints of the film.Some accounts of the settlement state that "Demon with a Glass Hand", another Outer Limits episode written by Ellison, was also claimed to have been plagiarized by the film, but Ellison explicitly stated that The Terminator "was a ripoff" of "Soldier" rather than of "Demon with a Glass Hand".

The film also explores the potential dangers of AI dominance and rebellion. The robots become self-aware in the future, reject human authority and determine that the human race needs to be destroyed. The impact of this theme is so important that "the prevalent visual representation of AI risk has become the terminator robot.

Gale Anne Hurd, who had worked at New World Pictures as Roger Corman's assistant, showed interest in the project.

Cameron sold the rights for The Terminator to Hurd for one dollar with the promise that she would produce it only if Cameron was to direct it. Hurd suggested edits to the script and took a screenwriting credit in the film, though Cameron stated that she "did no actual writing at all".

Cameron and Hurd had friends who worked with Corman previously and who were working at Orion Pictures (now part of MGM). Orion agreed to distribute the film if Cameron could get financial backing elsewhere. 

The script was picked up by John Daly, chairman and president of Hemdale Film Corporation. Daly and his executive vice president and head of production Derek Gibson became executive producers of the project.

Cameron wanted his pitch for Daly to finalize the deal and had his friend Lance Henriksen show up to the meeting early dressed and acting like the Terminator. Henriksen, wearing a leather jacket, fake cuts on his face, and gold foil on his teeth, kicked open the door to the office and then sat in a chair.

Cameron arrived shortly and then relieved the staff from Henriksen's act. Daly was impressed by the screenplay and Cameron's sketches and passion for the film.In late 1982, Daly agreed to back the film with help from HBO and Orion.

The Terminator was originally budgeted at $4 million and later raised to $6.5 million. Aside from Hemdale, Pacific Western Productions, Euro Film Funding and Cinema '84 have been credited as production companies after the film's release.

Schwarzenegger was not as excited by the film; during an interview on the set of Conan the Destroyer, an interviewer asked him about a pair of shoes he had, which belonged to the wardrobe for The Terminator. Schwarzenegger responded, "Oh, some shit movie I'm doing, take a couple weeks."

 He recounted in his memoir, Total Recall, that he was initially hesitant, but thought that playing a robot in a contemporary film would be a challenging change of pace from Conan the Barbarian and that the film was low-profile enough that it would not damage his career if it were unsuccessful. In a later interview with GQ Magazine, he admitted that the he and the studio regarded it as just another B action movie, since "The year before came out Exterminator, now it was the Terminator and what else is gonna be next, type of thing".

 It was only when he saw 20 minutes of the first edit did he realize that "this is really intense, this is wild, I don't think i've ever seen anything like this before" and realized that "this could be bigger than we all think".

 To prepare for the role, Schwarzenegger spent three months training with weapons to be able to use them and feel comfortable around them.

 Schwarzenegger speaks only 17 lines in the film, and fewer than 100 words. Cameron said that "Somehow, even his accent worked ... It had a strange synthesized quality, like they hadn't gotten the voice thing quite worked out."

The film initiated a long-running Terminator franchise starting with Terminator 2: Judgment Day, considered by many to be one of the greatest sequels of all time, released in 1991. The franchise currently consists of six films, including the 2019 release of Terminator: Dark Fate, and several adaptations in other media. Schwarzenegger biographer Laurence Leamer wrote that The Terminator "was an influential film affecting a whole generation of darkly hued science fiction, and it was one of Arnold's best performances." Wiki

Love, Death and Robots S2

 Storyline 

Love, Death + Robots is a 5-time Emmy winning animation anthology series produced by Blur Studio. Launched in March of 2019 on Netflix, Love, Death + Robots delivers a variety of style and story unlike anything else, spanning the genres of science fiction, fantasy, comedy, horror, and more. Created by Tim Miller with David Fincher as executive producer, the series brings together a global team of directors and animation studios to push and expand the medium. Eighteen shorts in all, Love, Death + Robots has something for everyone.  IMDB

imdb.com reviews for Love, Death and Robots

Love, Death & Robots - Episode List

Marvel MCEU 2021 Updated to 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken an entire year out of Marvel’s release schedule. It has caused a few production delays, but the actual delay in the release schedule is much bigger. All of a sudden, Marvel has 5 properties that have already been shot, three that are currently under production, and 5 that will start filming by Q1 2021.

What I mean by this is that they’d have a lot of content in hand, but slower means to push it out. And because Phase 5 is supposed to have even more projects than Phase 4, Marvel might have to make up for the 1 year they lost due to COVID-19. And, they’d do that by releasing at least 5 MCU movies in 2023.

Marvel Studios has announced their full slate including release dates for all of their upcoming films through 2024. A whopping five MCU movies will be hitting screens in 2023 alone. Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania and Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3 have been announced, but that leaves three guesses to rub your hands together, Mr. Miyagi style, in anticipation. What are they going to be? Here is the full Marvel Studios slate that has been revealed so far.

Eternals - November 5, 2021

The Eternals are a fictional race of humanity appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They are described as an offshoot of the evolutionary process that created sentient life on Earth. The original instigators of this process, the alien Celestials, intended the Eternals to be the defenders of Earth, which leads to the inevitability of war against their destructive counterparts, the Deviants. The Eternals were created by Jack Kirby and made their first appearance in The Eternals#1 (July 1976).

Eternals stars an ensemble cast including Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Barry Keoghan, Don Lee, Harish Patel, Kit Harington, Salma Hayek, and Angelina Jolie. The upcoming film was directed by Chloé Zhao, who also wrote the screenplay along with Patrick Burleigh, Ryan Firpo, and Kaz Firpo.

Spider-Man: No Way Home - December 17, 2021

For the first time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood hero is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a Super Hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.

The Spider-Man: No Way Home cast includes Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jon Favreau, Alfred Molina, Willem Dafoe, J.K. Simmons, Jamie Foxx, J.B. Smoove, Hannibal Buress, Jacob Batalon, and Marisa Tomei. Jon Watts helms with Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers sharing writing duties.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness - March 25, 2022

After the events of Avengers: Endgame, Dr. Stephen Strange continues his research on the Time Stone. But an old friend turned enemy seeks to destroy every sorcerer on Earth, messing with Strange's plan and also causing him to unleash an unspeakable evil.

The Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness cast includes Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange, alongside Elizabeth Olsen, Benedict Wong, Rachel McAdams, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Xochitl Gomez. The film is directed by Sam Raimi from a script written by Jade Bartlett and Michael Waldron.

Thor: Love and Thunder - May 6, 2022

The film is a sequel to Thor, Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok, and Avengers: Endgame. Thor: Love and Thunder is the twenty-ninth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the sixth film of Phase Four.

Chris Hemsworth stars as Thor, alongside Tessa Thompson, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Chris Pratt, Jaimie Alexander, Pom Klementieff, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Sean Gunn, Jeff Goldblum, and Vin Diesel. The film is directed by Taika Waititi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jennifer Kaytin Robinson.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - July 8, 2022

While the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever plot is under wraps, the film serves as a sequel to Black Panther. It stars Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, and Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams. The film is being directed by Ryan Coogler, who co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Robert Cole.

The Marvels - November 11th, 2022

The Marvels will feature Brie Larson returning to the role of Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers. In the film, she'll be joined by Teyonah Parris, who was first introduced as adult Monica Rambeau in Marvel Studios' WandaVision, along with Iman Vellani, who will appear as Ms. Marvel in the upcoming Disney+ series of the same name.

The cast will also include Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Park Seo-joon, and Jude Law as Yon-Rogg. The film is directed by Nia DaCosta from a screenplay by Megan McDonnell.

Ant-Man and The Wasp Quntumania - February 17, 2023

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is a sequel to Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Avengers: Endgame. It is the thirty-second film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the ninth film of Phase Four. The film stars Paul Rudd as Scott Langand Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne, alongside Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathryn Newton, and Jonathan Majors. The film is directed by Peyton Reed from a screenplay by Jeff Loveness.

Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 3 - May 5, 2023

While the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 plot is still unknown, we do know writer/director James Gunn says this will wrap up the trilogy. We'll see Chris Pratt return as Star-Lord, Dave Bautista as Drax, Karen Gillan as Nebula, Bradley Cooper as Rocket, Vin Diesel as Groot and Pom Klementieff as Mantis. After the events of Avengers: Endgame, we'll also be seeing Zoe Saldana as Gamora again. Look at all those fill-in-the-blank flicks! What movie are you using your conjuring superpowers for? You can check out the entire list, which includes two more untiled movies in 2023, with speculation running wild about what they are.

Marvel Studios 2021 Movies

 Eternals - 11/05

 Spider-Man: No Way Home - 12/17

Marvel Studios 2022 Movies

 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness - 03/25

 Thor: Love and Thunder - 05/06

 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - 07/08

 The Marvels - 11/11

Marvel Studios 2023 Movies

 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania - 02/17

 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - 05/05

 Untitled Marvel Film - 07/28

 Untitled Marvel Film - 10/06

 Untitled Marvel Film - 11/10

Marvel Studios 2024 Movies

 Untitled Marvel Film - 02/16

 Untitled Marvel Film - 05/03

 Untitled Marvel Film - 07/26

 Untitled Marvel Film - 11/08

https://movieweb.com/marvel-studios-five-mcu-movies-2023-release-slate/

How The Marvel Cinematic Universe Calendar Is Shaping Up For 2021 & Beyond Between Movies & Streaming Series – TCA

Reposted from Deadline

By Anthony D'Alessandro

February 24, 2021 12:07pm

It’s quite clear that we’ll get more Marvel series on Disney+ this year — potentially more than Star Wars series.

At the top of the first Disney/Marvel TCA session, President of Marvel Studios and Chief Creative Officer Kevin Feige gave a brief rundown of the studio’s plans.

March 5 marks the end of Season 1 of WandaVision. Then on March 19, The Falcon and the Winter Solider is debuting. That will run six episodes, with a speculated season end date (if Disney doesn’t skip weeks) of April 23.

The next big event set to happen in the MCU after Falcon and the Winter Soldier is the feature release of Black Widow on May 7.

 However, it’s not clear if all global markets will be open by then as Covid-19 quells and vaccinations swell. Disney will know in the next month whether it will move the Scarlett Johansson movie. It’s not just about New York and Los Angeles re-opening and the hope of capacity restrictions easing, but see that in the rest of the world as well. Rival distributors guess that the next date Black Widow would move to is July 9, where Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings is slotted. Disney CEO Bob Chapek has said the studio’s intention is to keep Black Widow as a theatrical release, and not moving it to a Disney+/theatrical day-and-date or strictly streaming release. 

Feige mentioned nothing today about Black Widow going to the streaming service, nor did he talk about the Avengers femme superhero movie rescheduling its theatrical release date.

Also announced today: Disney+’s Thor spinoff Loki series will drop on June 11.

Disney+ @ TCA: Deadline’s Full Coverage

At the top of the TCA session, Feige updated the press corps with the following Disney+/Marvel series today:

“Soon after Loki, we’ll have our first animated serie, which is What If?, and I’m here on set where we are finishing up Ms. Marvel,” he said. “We’re also shooting Hawkeye currently, and in a few weeks we start She-Hulk, a week or so after that we start Moon Knight in addition to our features for the MCU thanks to Disney+.”

Not every Marvel/Disney+ series will get a Season 2 or 3. Some will, and Feige didn’t show his hand on which of those that would be. Sometimes a series will segue into a big-screen feature. A WandaVision Season 2 is not imminent, rather Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch storyline will head straight into the Sam Raimi-directed sequel Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness (scheduled for March 25, 2022). Ditto for the Ms. Marvel series, which is planned to drop on Disney+ later this year; that series will bleed into Captain Marvel 2, (theatrical date Nov. 11, 2022). 

Eternals will hit the big screen on November 5, and then Sony/Disney/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home is scheduled to go on Dec. 17. And that’s your 2021 Marvel year.

Other 2022 Marvel theatrical releases include Thor: Love & Thunder on May 6 and Black Panther 2 on July 8. There’s also an MCU series Wakanda planned, as Deadline first reported.

“The fun of the MCU is obviously all the crossover we can do between series, between films,” Feige said, “so it will vary based on the story. Sometimes it will go into a Season 2, sometimes it will go into a feature and back into a series.”

He added: “Sometimes, and yet to be announced, we’re thinking of and planning second and third seasons for some of the upcoming series.”

As for that other Disney-owned franchise, all we know about Star Wars this year so far is that The Book of Boba Fett series is coming this fall to Disney+, and the animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch drops on May 4 — Star Wars Day.

From CNET

While we're nearing the end of Disney Plus hit WandaVision, there are thankfully more Marvel shows on the horizon, with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier the next series to keep us glued to the streaming platform. After that, the ball keeps rolling with Loki, and Disney Plus has revealed its exact release date. Look forward to the god of mischief's adventures premiering June 11.

Below you'll find the current release slate for the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Phase 4 in film and television. These are the expected dates, but as with many Marvel projects, keep on your toes in case the pandemic nudges releases further down the line.

EVERY UPCOMING MCU FILM

Movie	US release date	UK release date	Australia release date
Black Widow	May 7, 2021	May 7, 2021	29 April, 2021
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings	July 9, 2021	July 9, 2021	July 8, 2021
Eternals	Nov. 5, 2021	Nov. 5, 2021	Oct. 28, 2021
Spider-Man: No Way Home (with Sony)	Dec. 17, 2021	Dec. 17, 2021	Currently N/A
Thor: Love and Thunder	Feb. 11, 2022	Feb. 11, 2022	Feb. 10, 2022
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	March 25, 2022	March 25, 2022	March 24, 2022

UPCOMING DISNEY PLUS SERIES

Series	Release date
WandaVision	Jan. 15, 2021
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier	March 19, 2021
Loki	June 11, 2021
What If...?	Summer, 2021
Hawkeye	2021
Ms. Marvel	2021
Moon Knight	2022
She-Hulk	2022