According to social media scooper My Time To Shine Hello, Lucasfilm has provided a new hope for Rogue Squadron, choosing to redevelop the long-delayed project as a streaming series for D+.
While this isn’t the dead project fans are currently wishing will come together (that honor goes to The Hunt for Ben Solo), the project has always sounded relatively exciting and D+ might be the perfect place for it. Set to introduce a “new generation of starfighter pilots as they earn their wings and risk their lives in a boundary-pushing, high-speed thrill-ride, and move the saga into the future era of the galaxy,” Rogue Squadron is believed to be set AFTER the sequels and could serve as a companion piece to Star Wars: Starfighter.
With the New Republic Mando-verse projects nearing their narrative conclusion in the not too distant future, Lucasfilm is certainly looking for its next batch of stories and Rogue Squadron could have survived uncertainty and become part of the future.
Released on D+ in 2021, Hawkeye still stands as one of Marvel’s strongest and most complete streaming series. The Christmas setting and dynamic between Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld‘s Hawkeyes made the street-level story a hit with fans, who immediately began pushing for a second season, something the cast and creatives were also keen to make work.
I cannot speak to future plans in the tradition of secrecy. Again, the show coming out, you never know how it’s going to be received and it has been amazing to see how warmly people have taken it and enjoyed it. And it’s been great to see Hailee’s character embraced and sort of land so firmly in the MCU. I sincerely look forward to where that character goes next. And yes, I loved walking on the streets of the MCU and would gladly enjoy doing it again.
In an interview with The Playlist, Renner shared his belief that following recent conversations with the powers that he, a second season of Hawkeye might find its way to D+ after all.
“We got to where we’re trying to do the second season,” revealed Renner. “And I think I’ll get strong enough to be able to do it. And we’ll work it out. It’s gonna be great.”
“I really enjoyed doing the series version because it was a bit more intimate and had the family dynamic, which is always a huge part of him,” said Renner. “I think Clint’s superpower is the human side — he’s a superpowerless superhero. He’s one of the few, but I think his superpower is that sort of grit of the human condition and his loyalty and family. It’s like, otherwise, what are you fighting for? We’re fighting for that love and that loyalty of family. And so exploring that was always great. And then there’s the Christmas theme — being in New York, that was great too.”
With Steinfeld‘s Bishop reportedly poised to have a bit of a bigger role inbthe studio’s Post-Multiverse Saga plans, perhaps Marvel will find a way for the further adventures of the Hawkeyes...and Mockingbird!
Just two years after Robert Kirkman‘s Skybound Entertainment helped Image Comics launch the Energon Universe, the Invincible creator is teaming up with Hasbro Entertainment to develop the concept as an adult-oriented animated series.
According to Deadline, Kirkman has tabbed Lucifer scribe as showrunner Joe Henderson for the project for Hasbro, who is expected to begin shopping it around shortly.
Optimus Prime was supposed to have led the Autobots to victory. Instead, the fate of Cybertron is unknown, and his allies have crash-landed far from home, alongside their enemies-the Decepticons.
As these titanic forces renew their war on Earth, one thing is immediately clear: the planet will never be the same. New alliances are struck. Battle lines are redrawn. And humanity’s only hope of survival is Optimus Prime.
-Official synopsis for Transformers via Image Comics
The Image Comics Energon Universe is a shared fictional universe published by Skybound Entertainment (an imprint of Image Comics) in collaboration with Hasbro. It serves as a comprehensive reboot and unified continuity for the franchises of Transformers, G.I. Joe, and a new original property, Void Rivals, all tied together by the concept of Energon, the substance the Transformers need to survive.
Launched in June 2023, Void Rivals served as the initial cornerstone of the universe. It follows two soldiers, Darak (Agorrian) and Solila (Zertonian), from two warring alien races within the distant space anomaly known as the Sacred Ring. When they crash-land on a mysterious planetoid, they are forced to work together to survive, only to uncover a secret that reveals their two cultures are tied to ancient Cybertronian technology and the origin of the Transformers’ war. The first issue features the surprise first appearance of a Transformer (Jetfire), officially linking the franchises.
War rages around the Sacred Ring where the last remnants of two worlds have collapsed around a black hole in a never-ending war.
However when pilot Darak and his rival Solila both crash on a desolate planet these two enemies must find a way to escape together. But are they alone on this strange planet? And what dark forces await that threaten the entire universe?
-Official synopsis for Void Rivals via Image Comics
Image followed up Void Rivals in October 2023 with an all-new Transformers ongoing book which focuses on The Autobots and Decepticons’ war expanding to Earth. The story picks up after a contingent of Transformers crash-land and are dormant before being accidentally reactivated.
At the same time, four, solo, limited series were launched featuring key G.I. Joe franchise characters Cobra Commander, Destro, Duke and Scarlett. In November 2023, Joshua Williamson‘s G.I. Joe #1 hit shelves, telling the story of how the emergence of the Transformers on Earth spurs the formation of G.I. Joe and Cobra as military responses to the threat and the new energy source.
It’s unclear if one project or several are being developed for streaming.
Following a couple of years of more shuffling behind the scenes than I’ve ever seen, a new normal is emerging at Marvel Studios and it’s one that involves far fewer projects than fans are used to. However, it does make guessing a little easier which means the hypothetical calendars now return to having a .00001% chance of accuracy. So, for the first time in a long time…
Early March: Daredevil: Born Again Season 3
Marvel Television’s flagship streaming series will be back for a third season in 2027 and given Disney’s new preference for these projects to have an “annual cadence,” an early March release seems reasonable.
Writers have begun hashing out the scripts for the next installment in the streaming franchise with an eye on production getting underway in New York City in early 2026.
Fall: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Season 3
Like X-Men ’97, Marvel Animation’s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is being developed as a streaming staple. According to Winderbaum, “We will have a Spider-Man season every year if I have anything to say about it.” And he has a lot to say about it, so count on Season 3 in 2027.
Fall: Jessica Jones Project
Following her return as Jessica Jones in Season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again, Krysten Ritter looks set to headline a new streaming project of her own. While it’s currently not clear if it would shape up as a Special Presentation or a fourth season of Jessica Jones, rumors indicate it is coming together relatively quickly. With it unclear what else, if anything, Marvel Television might be working on for release in 2027, a Jessica Jones project could pair nicely with Daredevil: Born Again. Alternatively, if the studio plans to end the Daredevil series after Season 3, Jessica Jones Season 4 might slide into that March slot on the calendar.
December 17: Avengers: Secret Wars
Outside of 2020, in which no theatrical projects were released by Marvel due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, there has only been one other instance of Marvel releasing only one MCU film in a calendar year: 2011 when Iron Man 2 flew solo. Now there will be another, as Avengers: Secret Wars, the final chapter in the Multiverse Saga, is the only movie on Marvel’s release calendar.
There’s a lot of stuff that I’ve felt there was room to explore, and Brad and I talked about it and I am not going to say any of it, because we’re going to be doing it.
-Krysten Ritter
According to social media scooper My Time To Shine Hello, Marvel Studios has started the process of assembling the creative team for the Jessica Jones revival by searching for a writer.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 11: Krysten Ritter speaks onstage during the Marvel Television and Marvel Animation Panel at New York Comic Con at Javits Center in New York, NY on October 11, 2025. (Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for Disney)
In 2013, 5 years after the MCU kicked off with Iron Man, Disney and Netflix reached a deal that allowed the streaming service to develop four live-action series based around some of Marvel Comics’ “street-level” heroes: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist. The original deal called for a 13-episode series to be developed for each character with their stories intersecting in a crossover events series, The Defenders. Ultimately, each of the series were granted at least a second season and, in 2016, following the character’s debut in Season 2 of Daredevil, a spinoff series centered on Jon Bernthal’s Frank Castle, aka The Punisher, went into development.
In late 2018, Netflix began cancelling the series individually and by February 2019, the Defenders-verse died a quiet death in the trades. In March 2022, the series were all removed from Netflix’s streaming platform and appeared on Disney Plus as The Defenders Saga and were not included in the MCU Timeline or the Infinity Saga. However, in January 2024, Winderbaum canonized the projects, beginning the Netflixification of Marvel’s live-action streaming efforts. Now, a Jessica Jones project looks to be the next step.
Though VisionQuest is meant to serve as the endcap of a trilogy that began with WandaVision in 2021 and continued with Agatha All Along in 2024, it will also connect to and explore concepts left on the table during the Infinity Saga and includes the return of one of the Avengers’ greatest villains from Marvel Studios’ first collection of films with James Spader returning as Ultron. Ultron won’t be the only AI in the show, however, as several of Tony Stark’s programs are also set to return, though this time they’ll all have human forms, allowing for some interesting interactions with Henry Lewis as D.U.M.-E, Jonathan Sayer as U, James D’Arcy as J.A.R.V.I.S., Orla Brady as F.R.I.D.A.Y., and Emily Hampshire as E.D.I.T.H.
While speaking during a surprise appearance at NYCC, Paul Bettany explained that the series would focus on the White Vision’s “attempt to connect to” the memories given to him by Red Vision during the season finale of WandaVision, though the Synthezoid is “having real difficulty connecting to them.” While speaking to Phase Hero’s Brandon Davis following NYCC, showrunner Matalas gave some additional insight into Vision’s plight in the show and discussed its core dynamic.
Simply put, VisionQuest is about “A man going through an identity crisis,” according to Matals. Vision is “trying to find a way to identify with who he was but is having difficulty as he is out in the world and seeing humanity in a more direct way…[he] has some doubts about us.” From what can be gathered from the teaser shown at NYCC and from Bettany’s comments, the series will take us inside Vision’s mind while he struggles, revealing that he’s “been saving and copying and pasting [the AIs] to keep them alive inside his head,” including Ultron, which leads to what Matals calls the show’s “core dynamic.”
“This is a show about the Marvel AIs,” said Matalas. “You do get to see robot Ultron, but you see a lot of James Spader and a lot of Paul Bettany together,” teased the showrunner. “They are very much a core dynamic of the show.” However, much has changed since fans last saw them together during the climax of Avengers: Age of Ultron, which Matalas calls his favorite scene from the 2015 film. “Where they are now, Ultron isn’t quite the same and Vision isn’t quite the same. So it’s interesting to see what that new dynamic is going to be.”
Of course, any expectation that Vision’s creator has undergone a catharsis and will be looking out for his “son” seems far-fetched given Ultron’s place as one of the most sinister foes of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. And as Bettany teased, Vision has kept Ultron “behind a pretty impressive firewall because he’s a psychopath. But he’s a clever one.” We’ll see what sort of evil Ultron gets up to when VisionQuest hits D+ in the Fall of 2026.
Both Marvel Animation and Marvel Television provided updates to their respective 2026 streaming slates on October 11th, with five total projects in the spotlight. On the animation side, streaming skipper Brad Winderbaum talked about the second seasons of X-Men ’97 and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, two shows the studio hopes to roll out annually for the foreseeable future. Winderbaum also brought news on three live-action projects set to debut in 2026: Wonder Man, Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 and VisionQuest, with Wonder Man‘s January 27th release date being revealed while the other projects were given more general windows.
Coming out of NYCC, the 2026 streaming slate shaped up as follows:
January 27th: Wonder Man
TBD March: Daredevil: Born Again Season 2
Summer: X-Men ’97 Season 2
Fall: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Season 2
TBD 2026: VisionQuest
Following the presentation, Disney has updated the information available about each project via their respective media kits, revealing a release date for Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 and a more defined release window for VisionQuest.
The sophomore season of Daredevil: Born Again is now confirmed to begin streaming on March 4th, 2026 while VisionQuest has now been given a Fall 2026 release window.
It is notable that Season 1 of Daredevil: Born Again debuted on Tuesday, March 4th, 2025 and that March 4th, 2026 will be a Wednesday. Over the past couple of years, Marvel Television has not established any real consistency in releasing episodes on Tuesdays or Wednesdays and the March 4th date is as true to Winderbaum‘s promise of the series being a flagship that fans can look forward to being released annually.
In the case of VisionQuest, the Fall 2026 release sets up the series to be the final live-action project fans will take in before heading to theaters for Avengers: Doomsday on December 18, 2026. While the studio continues to work on reducing the number of projects that feel too intricately connected to the larger narrative, rumors have begun to swirl that VisionQuest may indeed include a major MCU plot point, connecting the series and its cast to the conclusion of the Multiverse Saga.
With the second season of Peacemaker landing on HBO Max shortly after Superman flew into theaters, James Gunn–the creator of both DC Studios’ projects–has been a constant part of the CBM news cycle for several months. With an official Peacemaker podcast, a near-constant online presence and plenty of interviews, Gunn provides fans of the growing DCU plenty to chew on, even if he does beat the odd dead horse.
To some extent, much of what Gunn has had to say in the past few months has been related to the future of the young shared universe, which has begun to shape up very differently than the original version of the slate he and DC Studios’ co-chair Peter Safran shared in January 2023. The original version of the studio’s Chapter One: Gods and Monsters consisted of 10 projects (5 theatrical and 5 streaming) and as Gunn has frequently explained of late, some of those have not coalesced as well as he had hoped, while others have moved up in the queue. So while The Brave and the Bold, Waller, Swamp Thing, The Authority and Booster Gold wade through development hell, Clayface, Mister Miracle and, Man of Tomorrow and Wonder Woman have progressed a little more efficiently…but those may not be the only new projects on the horizon.
In a wide-ranging interview with GQ, Gunn addressed DC Studios’ future slate, teasing a trio of mystery projects.
“Right now, there’s actually two really cool film scripts that I’m hoping to take to the next level that we have general plans for, and I’m excited about both of those,” Gunn told GQ. “And then I’m excited about one TV project in particular. I don’t know why we’re not greenlighted on that already—it’s just figuring out the budget. So there’s a couple of things that are very present that I’m excited about.“
Without any further information, Gunn’s comments are left open to interpretation. On one hand, the “two really cool film scripts” Gunn mentions could very simply be Wonder Woman and The Brave and the Bold, both of which are known to be in development. On the other hand, given how projects such as Sgt. Rock and Clayface seemingly emerged from the ether, Gunn those two projects could be something he’s yet to address publicly. And the same goes for the TV project, where only Lanterns has moved forward among those projects from the original slate reveal.
Whatever the case, given how frequently Gunn finds himself in the headlines, it seems incredibly safe to assume that at least some bits of additional information about the three projects will make their way online soon.
Marvel Television’s Paul Bettany-led streaming series, potentially titled Vision Quest, has remained remarkably under the radar. For its part, the studio has rarely mentioned the series officially, though it’s likely to be included in its NYCC presentation on October 11th. Despite the studio’s silence, some details about the series emerged over time, including a very interesting cast full of AI beings and one very mysterious young man played by Ruaridh Mollica.
While speaking at Los Angeles Comic Con, Bettany revealed that Vision Quest tells a story of “intergenerational trauma” shared by “fathers and sons.”
It’s about intergenerational trauma…fathers and sons and denial of pain and denial of your own truth and coming to terms with who and what you are.
–Paul Bettany on Marvel Television’s streaming series, Vision Quest
With James Spader set to return as Tony Stark and Bruce Banner’s AI murder bot, Ultron, and much of the series set in a reality other than our own, Vision Quest will see Vision faced with some disturbing realizations while he rediscovers who he is. However, Bettany is clearly speaking about multiple generations and more than one father and more than one son, which all but confirms that his son, Tommy, will indeed appear.
As seen in Agatha All Along, Billy Maximoff transferred to soul of his brother into a boy who died in a pool as a result of bullies holding his head under water. As Billy did so, he stated that the boy had no family or no one to love him, leaving the door wide open for “Tucker” to have quite a bit in common with his trouble-making comic book counterpart.
Paul Bettany talks about ‘VISION QUEST:’
“It's about intergenerational trauma… fathers and sons and denial of pain and denial of your own truth and coming to terms with who and what you are.” pic.twitter.com/NON32Z0Nn5
But now that some time has passed, now that we actually see how well-integrated the stories are, I personally, Brad Winderbaum, will confidently say that they are part of the Sacred Timeline.
“I don’t know why people keep asking me this. There’s no signs. It’s not like they’ve just recently revived one of the Marvel Netflix shows,” teased Colter when asked if he was set to return for as Cage in Daredevil: Born Again.
Mike Colter teases Luke Cage's MCU debut during an appearance at Edmonton Expo:
*I don’t know why people keep asking me this. There’s no signs. It’s not like they’ve just recently revived one of the Marvel Netflix shows.” pic.twitter.com/qOFiLqjx4B
Colter‘s comments certainly come across as confirmation of his return as Cage, though nothing is certain until the star shows up in an episode. If Colter is indeed “back”, the timing of the revelation would align with the star joining the cast for the third season, which will go into production in early 2026, though an appearance in Season 2 can’t be ruled out.
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