Fox studios may have the film rights to the X-Men, but that isn’t preventing Marvel from channeling the powers of X-Men enemy “The Unstoppable Juggernaut”. Once Marvel gets any momentum there is no force that can stop it. Speaking with Collider Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige alluded to film dates of upcoming marvel films:

“We literally just crossed the halfway mark of Civil War last week, it’s day 42 or 43 of 80. We start filming Doctor Strange in London in November. We start shooting Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 in February-March (2016). We start filing Thor: Ragnarok and Spider-Man around the same time, around June of next year.”

Looks like Marvel have a busy 2015/2016 on their hands. But that’s not all that can be gathered from this statement. With Civil War half finished filming it wouldn’t be a stretch to imagine Marvel might have some footage ready to show, meaning we could get our first teaser trailer before the summer is out. Since Marvel isn’t attending Comic Con this year the best bet would be that they might debut this trailer in front of Antman using the goodwill generated by The Winter Solider to boost ticket sales.

Feige also says that the filming Dr Strange is to take place in London reinforcing speculation that the MCU version of Stephen Strange played by Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch might be London born instead of the New York native he is in comics. It’s also clear that Marvel aren’t letting its recent acquisition of Spiderman cause a deviation in its plans for its other properties with Thor Ragnarok and Spiderman filming simultaneously next June. It’s nice to see that the Spider-Man re-reboot is not taking to much priority over older MCU characters like Thor, who helped in building the Marvel Studios brand back when all they had were characters that weren’t as big in the public eye prior to their film debut.

It seems like the Marvel movie machine is well oiled and working at peak efficiency which is just what the studio needs to counter some of the less favourable press it’s gotten over the last year. Stories ranging with Edgar Wright leaving Antman over creative differences, the controversial exclusion of Black Widow from toy sets and a less than universally acclaimed Avengers follow up that fell just sort of out grossing its predecessor at the box office. But it seems these bumps have done little to slow Marvel as their onslaught of films continue.

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