Marvel Announces Avengers 2 Release Date, Guardians of the Galaxy Plot Synopsis

Posted by on August 17th, 2012   Filed under: Action, Books/Comics, Industry News

Following up on last week’s news that Joss Whedon had officially signed on for The Avengers 2, Disney and Marvel have now set a release date for the movie, which they are currently referring to as “Untitled Marvel’s Avengers Sequel”. According to a press release sent out yesterday, the movie will hit theatres on May 1st, 2015. You might want to mark that on your calendar… assuming you already have a calendar for three years from now. Obviously it’s a long way off, and at this point it is probably safe to assume that no one else will want to release a movie anywhere near that date. The only other movies currently scheduled for 2015 are The Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside the Mind (June 19th) and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 (Nov. 20th). Marvel’s upcoming release slate now looks like this:

  • May 3, 2013 — Iron Man 3
  • Nov. 8, 2013 — Thor: The Dark World
  • April 4, 2014 — Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  • Aug. 1, 2014 — Guardians of the Galaxy
  • May 1, 2015 — Untitled Marvel’s Avengers Sequel

Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man will probably end up in there somewhere as well, maybe winter 2014. On a related note, a logline for Guardians of the Galaxy recently turned up on It’s On The Grid, giving us a small idea of what the plot will look like:

“About a U.S. pilot who ends up in space in the middle of a universal conflict and goes on the run with futuristic ex-cons who have something everyone wants.”

From what I understand, this means the protagonist could either be Peter Quill, the astronaut who eventually becomes Star-Lord, or test pilot turned astronaut Vance Astrovik aka Major Victory. I guess it makes sense that the movie will try to start grounded before it gets all fantastical, but if you ask me it’s sounding more and more like Green Lantern. Are you looking forward to Phase 2 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe?



  • The thing I didn’t like about the cosmic stuff in “Green Lantern” was that it was completely explained to us at the beginning of the film, and then later when Hal gets in with the GLs, it’s all explained AGAIN. That movie was just a mess, but more from a storytelling standpoint then from trying to introduce cosmic shenanigans into a superhero universe. I think “Guardians” benefits tremendously from the outer space stuff already having been introduced into the Marvel Universe in “Avengers”, and I think we need to trust Marvel to know what they’re doing here. That’s one of the things that’s so great about Marvel being in charge of their own films, that it’s in their best interests to make things work, and they’re not being told by anyone else to make their movies more like the other movies that are hot at other studios at the moment.

  • kyri

    Nostradamus Prediction: 2013 movies are going to bomb so hard, Marvel is going to file bankruptcy. Rest wont happen . The end.

  • Hey, Marvel already went through bankruptcy! They came out of that pretty well…

  • kyri

    not this time.

  • Im curious how much Guardians will play into Avengers 2.

  • And you realize that Marvel has other things going on besides movies, right? Even if “Guardians” isn’t a hit, “Avengers 2″ will be nearly done by that point, and they’ll be just fine. I don’t see Marvel having to go through bankruptcy anytime soon, or ever again for that matter.

  • Alex

    Marvel should make more comics and make them as popular as their movies. Also they should of been part of making the batman movies and spider-man ones too.