Marvel Entertainment Shares the Release Dates of Two “Mystery” Films

Is it really the right time to start sharing news about movies that won’t come out until 2014? I mean, sure, every year now sounds like it’s ridiculously far in the future by virtue of beginning with “201,” but come on. Even The Hobbitses will have come out by the time 2014 rolls around.

Well, apparently it is, when Marvel says it’s going to put out two movies in 2014 and doesn’t even say what they are.

Up until now, we knew that the Avengers was May, 2012; and Iron Man 3 and Thor 2 are planned to hit in the summer of 2013. Oh, and that Sony has already dated the sequel to it’s unreleased The Amazing Spider-Man for 2014.

You know, I was the first to be skeptical about Marvel filming and planning an Avengers movie when Thor and Captain America were in the script stage at best, but maybe this is just how superhero movies are done these days. Certainly, DC’s announcements that it wants to reboot Batman as soon as Christopher Nolan is done with him, and get a new Batman, Superman, and Green Lantern series up so that it can get around to making a Justice League movie were shockingly far sighted. But maybe there’s just no such thing as premature in superhero movie making anymore.

But this kind of speculation isn’t what you came below the cut for. You want to know what these two mystery movies dated for May 16th and June 27th of the mind staggeringly improbable year two-thousand and fourteen might be.

Well, there’s a lot we can rule out, since Marvel would probably not announce the dates for movies that they don’t currently have the rights to right now. So fans of Daredevil, the X-Men, and the Fantastic Four might as well stop reading. However, both Ant-Man (presumably the Henry Pym incarnation) and Doctor Strange have been rumored to be in the script stages, so they seem like the most likely candidates. Frankly, I’m way more interested in seeing the Master of the Mystic Arts take the silver screen. It seems like we haven’t had a real magic based superhero take the mainstream yet. Thor’s fantastical elements were firmly and purposefully grounded in “science we don’t understand yet,” while Hellboy, one of my favorites, isn’t exactly a household name.

I’m also looking forward to all the jokes about the changes in the culture of Greenwich Village since Lee and Ditko located the Sorcerer Supreme’s brownstone there.

(via Digital Spy.)