Marvel Announces Several New Movies: Thor, Iron Man 2, Captain America, The Avengers and More Posted by The ODI at Tuesday, May 06, 2008 0 comments Labels: Archived Movies, Captain America, Iron Man 2, Punisher: War Zone, Spiderman 4, Thor

After this weekend's success of Iron Man, Marvel Studios announced today that they will indeed movie forward with their master of plan of releasing additional character movies which will lead to an Avengers movie.

Marvel actually announced a tentative schedule for the next four movies with Iron Man 2 and Thor being released in 2010 and Captain America (Avengers Part 1) and Avengers Part 2 to be release in 2011. ALso don't forget Punisher: War Zone later this year and X-Men Origins: Wolverine for summer 2009.

Here is the breakdown of the release dates and other details including confirming a fourth Spider-Man.

Iron Man 2 - April 30th, 2010
Thor - June 4th, 2010

The First Avenger: Captain America - May 6th, 2011
The Avengers - July, 2011

As we already know, Stardust's Matthew Vaughn will be directing Thor, however no other details have been announced for that project. Marvel Studio's David Maisel did also say that Thor will actually be introduced in Iron Man 2, which is one of the crossovers in the works. In addition, in 2011, the Captain America movie will lead directly into The Avengers. Whoever is cast as Steve Rogers aka Captain America will essentially be making two movies at once - since the character will be introduced in the first movie and head straight into The Avengers.

Regarding more Hulk movies, Maisel's response was "we definitely plan on continuing." But we all know that depends on how well Edward Norton's reimagining does this June. In addition, Maisel gave this last update, "I can't give any other updates other than to say it's in development and everybody's excited about Spider-Man 4." This is definitely a very promising future for Marvel and I'm certain the comics community is abuzz today with much discussion on all of the upcoming films.

As for the rest of this year and next year, we've got The Incredible Hulk coming up, Punisher: War Zone this fall, and only X-Men Origins: Wolverine for 2009. Do they have something else in the works that they'll spring on us last minute for 2009? Or will that be a more mellower year as we lead into the more exciting 2010 and 2011?

Source: First Showing