Marvel Dates Their 2025 Disney+ Releases

It appears that Disney has become the streaming service to beat next year after Marvel Studios, Television, and Animation unveiled their release slate for 2025. These titles are coming on top of the release of the movies on the platform.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man: January 29th, 2025

Daredevil: Born Again: March 4th, 2025

Ironheart: June 24th, 2025

Eyes of Wakanda: August 6th, 2025

Marvel Zombies: October 2025

Wonder Man: December 2025

You know what?  Let's guess the ranking for these shows and see where we end up next year.

6. Marvel Zombies

I've been outspoken about my feelings about What If...? and how I feel like it's probably Marvel Studios' biggest missed opportunity. Fortunately December is the end of that show but the long-gestating spin-off finally comes out in October. Even if it is continuing the story started in What If...? and could feature the first appearance of a character from The Eternals since 2021, my expectations are on the floor.

5. Wonder Man

I don't think Marvel Studios has acknowledged the existence of Wonder Man officially on the record and, as such, we know very little about it. I think if this is a self-contained kind of pseudo-comedy like She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, this could be interesting and worth a watch but time will tell as we see more than a few quick shots in today's teaser.

4.Ironheart

I like Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and I like Anthony Ramos as an actor. The idea of making a tech-based hero fight something metaphysical is interesting however I am afraid this show will run into the Iron Man 2 problem where it ends up doing a lot of the heavy lifting to build the universe at the expense of the individual story. Is Mephisto here? Who knows. Let's see when it comes out.

3. Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man

This is an interesting one because I am unclear just how much this fits into the MCU canon compared to the rest. Is this an alternate universe? Is this the origin story for Tom Holland's Spider-Man? We'll see. That said, this feels deeply immersed in a Spider-Man universe that even the live action movies don't as we see Peter Parker develop as a hero.

2. Eyes of Wakanda

I love a good history lesson and that's what Eyes of Wakanda is. In fact, it's more than a history lesson; it's a history lesson gift wrapped in an anthology series where the episodes are all designed by different artists. Take that and couple it with the idea that the legacy and history of Wakanda is intertwined with Marvel's other secret societies? I'm in.

1. Daredevil: Born Again

This should come as a surprise to no one but the show I have the highest expectations for is Daredevil: Born Again. The cast of the Netflix show is back, they appear to be leaning into the Mayor Fisk arc, and this show should be leaning fully into the future of street-level Marvel in a way that they've been building to for years. I have full confidence that this show will meet or exceed my expectations.

These titles join some of the titles we already knew were coming next year from other Disney subsidiaries including season two of Andor in the early part of the year and Pixar's Win or Lose (finally) releasing in February. In the era of IP domination, it'll be interesting to see if Max, Netflix, and Peacock will be able to maintain their market share. HBO/Max does have some strong properties coming between season two of The Last of Us, It: Welcome To Derry, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Euphoria, and The White Lotus all slated for next year. It's also interesting how both Paramount+ and Peacock have found their niche in the streaming space where Paramount+ firmly lives in Taylor Sheridan land and Peacock is kind of a go-to destination for new release Universal movies and reality television. It's also interesting that both these services have lucrative sports contracts in a way that the others do not.

Netflix's plan to overload with content appears to be working, plus it's time as the frontrunner gives it a notable edge over the rest of the services, however at a certain point they will have to start working on the quality of content as the audience starts to thin and the price of streaming collectively goes up. The semi-implosion of the comic book movie over the course of the last few years should prove to streamers that the content behind the title is increasingly becoming important. Either way, Disney definitely has set the standard in terms of name-recognized content to drive subscriptions, now lets see if they can get the content up to that standard.