Already, 2022 is shaping up to be a big year for comic book fans. Here’s a list of 13 major (and some minor) comic book properties due for release in 2022. All are scheduled for theatrical release unless otherwise indicated.
Jan. 28: “Morbius,” starring Jared Leto as the vampiric Spider-Man villain.
March 4: Robert Pattinson takes dons the cowl in “The Batman,” director Matt Reeves’ gritty franchise reboot.
May 6: “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness,” with Benedict Cumberbatch returning as the Marvel supersorcerer.
May 20: The animated “DC League of Super-Pets,” featuring the voices of Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart and others.
July 8: Director Taiki Waititi’s Marvel sequel “Thor: Love and Thunder,” starring Chris Hemsworth.
July 29: The “Shazam!” spin-off “Black Adam,” starring Dwayne Johnson in the lead role.
Oct. 7: The Oscar-winning 2018 animated feature “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” gets the first of a planned two-part sequel with “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One).”
Nov. 4: DC dips its toe into the multiverse game with the “Justice League” spinoff “The Flash,” starring Ezra Miller in the lead role but with Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck both playing versions of Batman.
Nov. 11: “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” in which Marvel tries to continue the series without star Chadwick Boseman, who died in August 2020.
Dec. 16: Jason Momoa gets wet again in the DC Comics sequel “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.”
TBD 2022: Oscar Isaac stars in the six-episode Disney+ streaming miniseries “Moon Knight,” based on the Marvel Comics property of the same name.
The 10-episode Disney+ streaming miniseries “She-Hulk” stars Tatiana Maslany in the lead role.
The six-episode Disney+ streaming miniseries “Ms. Marvel” stars Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan, Marvel Films’ first major-title Muslim superhero.
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