Marvel Studios has movie ideas mapped through 2042, but Kevin Feige is treating that date as a planning horizon rather than a promised release schedule.
During a recent Shanghai interview with film outlet Watching Hollywood, Feige said the studio had just worked through potential movies extending to 2042. He immediately cautioned that Marvel may not make those exact films and that the plan will keep changing.
The clearer commitment concerns what comes after Avengers: Secret Wars. Feige described that film as the beginning of a more streamlined, single universe and said the X-Men will be at the center of Marvel's next long-form saga. He also confirmed plans to add Miles Morales to a live-action Spider-Man film after Sony's animated Spider-Verse series ends.
Marvel has announced Avengers: Doomsday for Dec. 18, 2026 and Avengers: Secret Wars for Dec. 17, 2027. The studio has not published a movie-by-movie slate through 2042.
Why the X-Men matter to Marvel's next era
Feige's comments point to a broader X-Men plan rather than one reboot movie built around Wolverine. Marvel can draw from decades of mutants, teams, rival factions and conflicts about how people respond to those born with extraordinary abilities. That gives the studio enough material for connected films and series without relying on the Avengers as the only center of the MCU.
Several actors from 20th Century Fox's X-Men films are already part of Avengers: Doomsday. Feige said the two Avengers movies will close storylines that began before 2008's Iron Man while setting up new versions of the Marvel universe. He did not provide a title, cast or release date for Marvel Studios' first standalone X-Men movie.
Miles Morales is planned, but not dated
Miles Morales debuted in 2011's Ultimate Fallout #4, created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli. He first became Spider-Man in Marvel's separate Ultimate Universe after that world's Peter Parker died. Miles later moved into Marvel's main comics universe, where he and Peter both operate as Spider-Man.
The animated Spider-Verse movies made Miles familiar to a much larger audience, but those Sony films are separate from the MCU's live-action continuity. Feige said a live-action Spider-Man movie has a natural path to add Miles after the animated series concludes. He did not confirm which movie will introduce him, who will play him or whether Tom Holland's Peter Parker will be involved.
What Time Runs Out and Secret Wars are about
Feige said Doomsday and Secret Wars draw heavily from Jonathan Hickman's Avengers and New Avengers stories, especially the 2014-15 arc known as Time Runs Out. In those comics, parallel Earths begin colliding in events called incursions. The Avengers split over how far they should go to save their own world as the multiverse runs out of time.
The 2015 Secret Wars series follows that collapse. Doctor Doom rules Battleworld, a patchwork planet made from pieces of destroyed realities, while surviving heroes try to restore the multiverse. The event eventually rebuilt Marvel's comics continuity and brought characters including Miles Morales into its main universe.
That publishing history explains why the comics are useful to Marvel Studios: they provide a way to finish a multiverse story, combine characters from separate realities and start again with a cleaner status quo. Feige described the films as inspired by those stories. He did not say the movies will copy Battleworld, the Illuminati or the comics' ending scene for scene.
Sources: Watching Hollywood's Kevin Feige interview, IGN's contemporaneous English report, Marvel's official Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars pages, and Marvel Comics' official Time Runs Out, Secret Wars and Miles Morales guides.
Images: Marvel Studios and Marvel Comics.