Kevin Feige stepped into a massive room, sat down alongside his team, and began sketching out films for the next 17 years. This isn’t figurative language. It’s literally what took place.
According to the head of Marvel Studios, the MCU now has a roadmap that reaches as far as 2042 — a detail he let slip during a recent interview conducted in China. And yes, that’s not a typo.
Secret Wars isn’t the reset you think it is
On one point Feige has left no room for doubt: Avengers: Secret Wars is not going to reboot the universe. Rather than a restart, he describes it as a launch point — the opening chapter of whatever follows.
In his view, Endgame was the genuine conclusion, while Secret Wars marks a fresh start. Two separate purposes, two separate movies — and he’d rather nobody mixed the two up.
The X-Men are the whole plan now
Once Secret Wars wraps, it’s the mutants’ turn to lead. Feige positioned the new X-Men as the foundation the entire universe will be constructed upon — and no, he isn’t referring to a single clawed Canadian.
“At the core of everything I’ve told you about, you’ll find the X-MEN. Wolverine is an excellent character and we managed to pair him with Deadpool, but the X-MEN aren’t just Wolverine, they’re much more. Essentially, they make up an entire universe, a multi-layered saga. We’re working right now on a big part of the X-MEN. A little while ago we were in a huge room holding a meeting about the future. We’re planning movies through 2042… Whether we’ll actually make it to 2042, we don’t know, but that’s how we approach and plan the enormous volume of stories that exist in the comics. We’re constantly changing and evolving, but having a general direction helps us move forward more,” Feige said.
Miles Morales is coming too
Tucked into that same remark: Feige confirmed that Miles Morales will surface at some point. There’s no release date and no specific film attached — simply an assurance that he’s somewhere on the roadmap between today and 2042.
Coming from almost anyone else, that sort of teaser would be infuriating. But coming from the man who spent ten years building toward a single snap, it carries a different weight.
He knows how this sounds
Feige makes no claim that the 2042 figure is set in stone. He folded that uncertainty directly into his own pitch.
“As for whether we can hold on until 2042? Who knows. Will it be those movies that will be made? Who knows,” he said.
He called it a general direction. Two decades’ worth of comics piled up in a room, a team gesturing toward a wall, and a mutant lineup that still hasn’t fully materialized. Feige doesn’t require certainty about the exact finish line. What he needs is to know which direction he’s headed.