X-Men ’97 left fans wanting more when the first season wrapped its 10-episode in May 2024. One of Marvel’s most consistently excellent projects, the revival of the beloved X-Men: The Animated Series was originally planned to return to D+ in 2025 for Season 2; however, following the dismissal of original showrunner Beau DeMayo, the gap between seasons expanded. During New York Comic Con, Marvel’s streaming head honcho, Brad Winderbaum, gave fans a peek at Season 2 revealed plans for it to stream Summer 2026, more than two full years since Season 1 completed its run.
Winderbaum has expressed a desire to have future seasons of X-Men ’97 “get to an annual cadence,” joining Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man as “something that people can rely on.” To that end, new showrunner Matthew Chauncey and the rest of the creative team have fallen into a groove, already working on Season 3…and beyond.
What’s exciting about the next few years is that we’re going to get subsequent seasons of X-Men ’97 and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man on an annual cadence. So every year, there’ll be a new season and we can map out a longer arc to those stories.
-Head of Streaming, Television, and Animation at Marvel Studio, Brad Winderbaum
“Season 3 is…I’ve almost seen animatics for the entire season, and it is incredible. I saw an episode the other day,” Winderbaum said in an interview with Collider following the Marvel Animation and Marvel Television panel. But he didn’t stop there.
After he was fired, DeMayo revealed he had a five-season plan in place when he created the series and it looks like Winderbaum and the creative team behind X-Men ’97 will continue to work from that outline. “There is definitely, more than possibly, more to come from X-Men ‘97. We’re talking about Seasons 4 and 5 now,” said Marvel’s TV big cheese.
Assuming Winderbaum’s “annual cadence” is kept, new seasons of X-Men ’97 will continue to hit D+ until at least 2029, giving fans their mutant throughout the decade!
Source: Collider
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