If you couldn’t keep up with all the news Disney dropped at its D23 Expo this past weekend, we don’t blame you. There were so many trailers dropped, so much footage released, and so much news announced for shows and movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Star Wars franchise, Disney proper, and more that it got very overwhelming very quickly! So, for your convenience, here’s a handy guide to everything you need to know, see, or hear about the entertainment juggernaut’s mega-con.
A great deal of footage of the Black Panther sequel was revealed, showing that Wakanda has become vulnerable after the loss of its king, T’Challa. The country’s foes also include the Atlanteans, led by Namor (Tenoch Huerta), but luckily, there’s a new Black Panther on the scene. Wakanda Forever premieres on November 11. Read more here.
The first footage of the Captain Marvel sequel reveals that somehow Carol Danvers, Monica Rambeau, and Kamala Khan’s powers are all linked. It was arguably the best Marvel footage of the expo—read more here. The movie is due July 28, 2023.
In the comics, the Thunderbolts are villains masquerading as heroes. That’s only partially true of the upcoming movie, but it does have a hell of a line-up including Sebastian Stan’s Winter Soldier, David Harbour’s Red Guardian, Hannah John-Kamen’s Ghost, Wyatt Russell’s U.S. Agent, Olga Kurylenko’s Taskmaster, Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, and Julia Louis-Dreyfuss as the Countess when it arrives on July 26, 2024. Read more here.
Tim Blake Nelson’s Leader, the gamma-powered genius last seen in 2008's Incredible Hulk, will be the villain in the next Captain America movie, starring Anthony Mackie as the new Cap and Danny Ramirez as the new Falcon, due May 3, 2024. Read more here.
So much was going on in the Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania footage shown at D23, just go read about it here. And yes, Bill Murray is indeed in the movie! Quantumania is set to premiere on February 17, 2023.
Loki—along with a lot of other Lokis—return for more multiversal shenanigans in the first footage from the show’s second season, coming next summer. Read more here.
It turns out Daredevil: Born Again won’t be a sequel to the original Netflix TV series but a reboot of sorts, even though both Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio are reprising their roles as Daredevil and Kingpin, respectively, when the show arrives in the spring of 2024. Read more here.
After director Ryan Coogler showed footage from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, he stuck around to give a preview of Ironheart, which stars Dominique Thorne as the young, armor-inventing genius Riri Williams. The show should arrive sometime late in 2023. Read more here.
The first season of the Hawkeye spinoff Echo, starring Alacqua Cox as the deaf hero, has just finished filming, and is coming to Disney+ sometime in the middle of 2023. Attendees got a see a very badass fight scene—read more here.
The Disney+ show about James Rhodes (Don Cheadle) trying to recover some of Tony Stark’s stolen Iron Man suits will be a direct sequel to Secret Invasion. No release date has been announced.
Eman Esfandi has been cast as the live-action version of Star Wars Rebels’ Ezra Bridger in the show, meaning Ahsoka (Rosario Dawson) will most likely complete her quest to find the young Jedi after he sailed away on a space whale in the cartoon. The show is due sometime in 2023. Read more here.
The fifth Indiana Jones movie doesn’t have a title yet, but it does have footage. Harrison Ford himself said the movie “will kick your ass,” and from what we saw of the film, we believe him. Indy will swing back into theaters on June 30. Read more here.
Disney passed out 3D glasses to its attendees to show them select scenes from Avatar: The Way of Water; apparently, the visuals of the groundbreaking sequel are just as revolutionary as in the original movie. Plus, we finally know how Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang’s characters are returning—read more here. The movie premieres on December 16.
Amy Poehler will return as Joy in the sequel to Pixar’s sweet but emotionally devastating Inside Out 2, due out sometime in 2024. Read more here.
The first footage from Haunted Mansion looked like spooky fun, and revealed Jamie Lee Curtis would be playing the psychic-head-in-a-jar of Madame Leota. Read more here. The movie will debut in the creepiest of all months, namely: ...March?
The Lion King prequel, starring the father of Simba in his youth, premiered footage that showed Mufasa wasn’t born into royalty like his son. Read more here. The movie is due sometime in 2024.
Pixar also debuted Elemental, about a world where people are literally made of the four primal elements—fire, water, air, and earth. Unfortunately, that spells trouble when a fire elemental and water elemental fall in love. It’s scheduled to premiere on June 16, 2023.
Pixar’s Elio is about an 11-year-old boy who inadvertently becomes the representative of Earth to the galaxy after becoming the first human to meet an alien. It’s due in 2024; read more here.
Iwaju is set in a futuristic version of Nigeria, co-created by Kugali Media. The movie is scheduled to come out on Disney+ sometime next year.
A bickering family is sent to explore strange new worlds in this animated movie, coming to theaters this November.
When Asha wishes upon a star in Wish, that star comes down to Earth to make trouble in this upcoming film which will arrive in November of next year.
Disney’s new Peter Pan movie will star Jude Law as Captain Hook and fly onto Disney+ sometime next year.