Fans of the Marvel brand of superhero movies are eagerly waiting for ‘Eternals‘ and ‘Spiderman: No Way Home’ to release later this year. But they will definitely be disappointed to know that the entire Marvel movies slate for 2022 – 2023 has been postponed by at least a couple of months each. Thankfully, the Marvel postponement spree has spared the hotly anticipated Spiderman: No Way Home. Yes folks, the third film in Tom Holland’s spidey universe will arrive in theatres as planned, on 17th December, 2021.
The first Marvel movie to be postponed is Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which has been moved from its original release date of March 25, 2022 to May 6, 2022. Next to be postponed is Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder, which moves from May 6 to July 8, 2022.
Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther sequel, ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever‘ was to release on that date, but it will now hit theatres on November 11, 2022. The movie replaces Nia DaCosta’s ‘The Marvels’ from that date, which in turn will now release on February 17, 2023. Lastly, February 17, 2023 was when Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was to release originally. The Antman movie has now been assigned now the new date of July 28, 2023.
An as yet untitled Marvel movie which was to release on November 10, 2023 has been brought forward to November 3, 2023. Also, Marvel seems to have pulled an unidentified movie off its schedule altogether. The film was originally slated to release on October 6, 2023.
The pandemic, lockdowns, and now the strike by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), which includes camera operators, make-up artists, sound technicians and others, seem to have contributed to the delays in the production of the Marvel slate of films, and hence the rescheduling of the dates.
Here are the new dates of the postponed Marvel films:
‘Dr Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness’: May 6, 2022
‘Thor: Love and Thunder’: July 8, 2022
‘Black Panther 2’: November 11, 2022
‘The Marvels’: February 17, 2023
‘Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantimania’: July 28, 2023