Marvel Studios Expected To Make A Big Change To Streaming Content After VISION; Updates On X-MEN & BLADE

Marvel Studios Expected To Make A Big Change To Streaming Content After VISION; Updates On X-MEN & BLADE

We have some rumors about Marvel Studios' plans for its small-screen content after the upcoming Vision series, as well as updates on the Blade and X-Men reboots...

By MarkCassidy - May 06, 2025 11:05 PM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Studios

We've known that Marvel Studios was in the process of implementing a "quality over quantity" mandate for a while now, particularly when it comes to the amount of Disney+ shows being produced.

According to a recent Wall Street Journal report, Kevin Feige has come to feel that the MCU is a "no new fans club," and has "told his Marvel Studios colleagues that watching every new Marvel TV show [and] film had started to feel more like homework than entertainment."

It's difficult to argue with this line of thinking. While more casual viewers would likely be able to follow the movies well enough if they hadn't watched the Disney+ shows, there are certain plot points and character motivations, etc, that they simply wouldn't pick up on.

At any rate, it sounds like the studio is planning to make some big changes when it comes to how much connectivity between big and small screen MCU content we'll be seeing in the future.

In his latest newsletter, Jeff Sneider shares what he's heard about Marvel's new strategy, and he believes that going forward, "the upcoming Vision series will be the last Marvel series to feature major characters from the movies."

"Oh, you’ll get mentions of major characters, just like how Spider-Man (the Peter Parker version) was referenced in Daredevil: Born Again, during a speech where newly elected mayor Wilson Fisk mentions a “man who dresses in a spider outfit” while condemning costumed vigilantes.

There are going to be a whole lot more references like that in Marvel shows, but look for those shows to continue to be based around characters like Wonder Man, who arrives new to the MCU on Disney+ in December, rather than Vision, a big-screen character whom audiences are accustomed to paying to see."

In addition to Vision Quest (or whatever they end up calling it), Marvel has Ironheart, Wonder Man, a second season of Daredevil: Born Again and some animated shows on the way, but it'll be interesting to see what other projects are announced as post-Avengers: Doomsday shows.

Sneider also shared some updates on two long-awaited reboots, and it sounds like both Blade and X-Men are still without directors. The former isn't too surprising following the recent news that Marvel has shelved the Daywalker's next solo outing for the time being, but we've been hearing that Marvel was zeroing in on a director for X-Men for a few months at this stage.

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SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 5/6/2025, 11:57 PM
I feel like the Mutant Saga will be a full blown reboot post Secret Wars. We will get Easter eggs of what came before but it will be a relaunch in a way that will attract new fans while us old fans will know what happened to get to that point.
IAmAHoot
IAmAHoot - 5/7/2025, 3:31 AM
@SonOfAGif - They’re not going to do 3 Phases just on mutants…
TheCredibleHulk
TheCredibleHulk - 5/7/2025, 3:54 AM
@SonOfAGif - I wouldn't be mad at 3 stages of mutants. Throw a few Avengers in every now and then and I they can restart it in a great way.
LordGanja
LordGanja - 5/7/2025, 4:13 AM
@SonOfAGif - Spot on.
I think this will be a mixture of Hickman's Secret Wars & also Secret Invasion which will be used to bring together heroes from different universes & to revive heroes dead in the MCU.
They'll have a few suprises up their sleeve - like new versions of Tony Stark & Steve Rogers with new actors.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 5/7/2025, 8:37 AM
@SonOfAGif - Yeah I agree with everything you said except for he name 'Mutant Saga'. Maybe the main plot drive will be mutant-based (like 'The Phoenix Saga' perhaps) but like IAmAHoot says it can't all be mutants. You gotta have other characters in there too or it's just a universe of mutants like the Fox movies.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 5/7/2025, 10:40 AM
@ObserverIO - I meant more so using the X-Men. Not the entire phases being the Mutant Saga. I think it's going to be "The Apocalypse Saga" and they will make Apocalypse the Thanos of the entire thing.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 5/7/2025, 12:48 PM
@SonOfAGif - That would be cool too.
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 5/7/2025, 12:05 AM
Bottom line is that a successful film studio overnight or even over a few years cannot suddenly become a consistently successful TV studio. Writing and producing for TV is very different than writing and producing for motion pictures.
JacobsLadder
JacobsLadder - 5/7/2025, 6:08 AM
@GeneralZod - Disney really doesn't understand TV. Writing a movie and cutting it into 6 or 7 parts is not how that works. Remember when TV shows had 21-24 episodes per season? these idiots can't come up with a handful that share the same thread.
Wahhvacado
Wahhvacado - 5/7/2025, 12:07 AM
Leave Disney+ for animated but continue the world of X-Men 97 with the other heroes they teased. Make it so the general audience doesn't feel like they have to watch every little thing
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 5/7/2025, 12:12 AM
If they mess up X-Men I'll be throwing in the MCU towel...
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 5/7/2025, 1:39 AM
@CorndogBurglar -

They messed up enough.

It's okay to leave now.

They messed up Fantastic Four, another others.
SethBullock
SethBullock - 5/7/2025, 1:56 AM
@CorndogBurglar - They already messed up the X-Men in the MCU by bringing back the Fox-Men before the proper MCU versions of these characters.
BigPhilbowski
BigPhilbowski - 5/7/2025, 2:31 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - still waiting on your justification for your racism you clown
JacobsLadder
JacobsLadder - 5/7/2025, 6:08 AM
@CorndogBurglar - it's already messed up. towel thrown.
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 5/7/2025, 12:35 AM
After Vision....lol, they cant even make a Blade movie , you think we will see a Vision series
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 5/7/2025, 8:39 AM
@Malatrova15 - I don't think even Daredevil will have any Vision in his next season.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 5/7/2025, 12:39 AM
I've heard the Vision series will be exciting. And that Wonder Man feels nothing like a superhero or MCU show, but is very funny.

But I don't know if I entirely agree with this marketing strategy. Does this mean in return that the tv characters won't show up in the movies?
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 5/7/2025, 2:51 AM
@HeavyMetal4Life - I have no faith that we’ll see the small screen heroes make a big screen splash outside of a Matt Murdock cameo in Spider-Man.
We won’t see a costumed Daredevil in any avengers movie, we can forget that. Hell, he was barely a costumed Daredevil in his own series.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 5/7/2025, 5:30 AM
@HeavyMetal4Life - I haven’t heard about Wonder Man being funny but moreso how it does feel different from the rest of the MCU though I wouldn’t be surprised if the former is true given the showrunner has written for Community & Brooklyn 99
WakandaTech
WakandaTech - 5/7/2025, 12:47 AM
If Marvel announces a Ghost Rider show that will lead to a midnight sons movie then I will take the time to watch it

But if Marvel announces a Ms Marvel season 2 then
I will make sure not to watch it

The reason the infinity saga was so successful was because it was connected, and it was leading to something
TheJok3r
TheJok3r - 5/7/2025, 12:55 AM
"watching every new Marvel TV show [and] film had started to feel more like homework than entertainment."

This is exactly why I left the MCU after Endgame (with the exception of the remaining two Spider-Man movies). It's one thing to expect me to watch the movies, but there's no way I'm investing time in those mediocre D+ series.
YonnyLayna
YonnyLayna - 5/7/2025, 1:10 AM
It was not the movie characters being on tv it was the plot points they choose to develope there Deadpool and Wolverine could introduce the ATV to general audience but Wanda's evil turn and children were just to lmuch to give context on Multiverse of Madness.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 5/7/2025, 1:29 AM
Disney+ was a pivot because covid shut down all the parks which really is their bread and butter. Chapek even had Pixar, Star Wars and Marvel announce so much crap and most never even saw the light of day. Most of those phase 4 shows were reworked movie scripts. Also the confidence amd arrogance from Infinity War and Endgame made them think it wasn't a problem. Less TV shows is good, they cost 250-300 million so you might as well take the risk with a movie. Having said that, Thunderbolts was [frick]ing awesome and it deserves all the praise. Hopefully the word of mouth gives them a decent hold on week two. Wednesdays are usually the big tell
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 5/7/2025, 1:29 AM
I wont expect much unless they get Joss Whedon back. Especially for x-men
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 5/7/2025, 8:45 AM
@vectorsigma - I don't know if you noticed but I think there was a Josstice League easter egg in the Thunderbolts/New Avengers credits sequence. There's a New Avengers magazine cover that homages Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, that was pretty much exactly the poster for Josstice League 2017.
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vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 5/7/2025, 10:22 AM
@ObserverIO - i didnt think of it as a Josstice League reference. I only thought of Queen when I saw it
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 5/7/2025, 12:47 PM
@vectorsigma - Maybe. I'm gonna wait until it's on streaming to see if it looks distinctly Josstice League or not, because that would be a cool little reference if so. And maybe an indication that they're still keeping Joss in mind and waiting for audiences to forget that he was cancelled.
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 5/7/2025, 1:37 AM
Disney is circling around the toilet bowl.

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narrow290
narrow290 - 5/7/2025, 9:31 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - dude, what this idiot is saying about Hasbro is wrong and has nothing to do with movies
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 5/7/2025, 10:26 AM
@narrow290 -

He's not an idiot and he isn't wrong, he is right.

This does have to with movies.

Anyone who watches this can see that.

Why is your take so wrong?
narrow290
narrow290 - 5/7/2025, 11:53 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - Hasbro recently came out with a "Maximum" line so far its Spider-Man and the Hulk. better articulation and more accessories witch of course means its going to cost Spidy is $50 and Hulk is $64.99 and a lot of people are loosing their minds like Hasbro is trying to rip us off when the same people will pay $99 for a Mafex and not bat an eye. So to say Hasbro is ripping us off is bullshit
TheIronDuck
TheIronDuck - 5/7/2025, 1:45 AM
I don't care if the A list actors don't do streaming as long as streaming characters get support roles in the movies.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 5/7/2025, 1:46 AM
Disney+ shows only work as filler. The problem is they were using them as pivotal introductions for various characters and plot points for the movies and people weren't watching the Disney+ shows. This is what hurt Multiverse of Madness being a continuation of Wandavision. It will be interesting how Marvel Studios will use Disney+ going forward.
JacobsLadder
JacobsLadder - 5/7/2025, 6:10 AM
@SonOfAGif - And Feige said that wouldn't happen when all this started. he's washed up,.
ShimmyShimmyYA
ShimmyShimmyYA - 5/7/2025, 8:17 AM
@JacobsLadder - he said that back when they were seperate from what I remember. Once he got control it was all tied in
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 5/7/2025, 1:58 AM
That's a good approach, but how many shows were based around movie characters anyway? Only the initial 2021 shows and Secret Invasion really were. Not a big pivot imo.

And makes sense they pivot after Vision, considering the saga is over by then anyway. That and it not really being a pivot makes the scoop feel like another educated guess.
MaximusTheMad
MaximusTheMad - 5/7/2025, 3:19 AM
Why would it be wrong for Spider-Man to show up in Daredevil and vice versa?

Kinda sucks if they'll never do that.
SteviesRightFoo
SteviesRightFoo - 5/7/2025, 4:50 AM
Is there no one with a bit of gumption that can tell Feige he's been the main problem for 5+ years now?
tRuckRogers46A
tRuckRogers46A - 5/7/2025, 5:20 AM
They've looked at it wrong. The failure of a lot of the shows was due to their misreading of the room.
No one wanted Echo or Ms Marvel, just like no one wants Ironheart. She Hulk and Secret Invasion were botched. FATWS was pretty damn good up until Sam started making speeches at the end. Wandavision was pretty decent, Hawkeye and Agatha were fairly good, WWBN and Loki were fantastic. Daredevil needs to do better in season 2.
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