Upcoming Disney+ Shows To Keep On Your Radar
(Welcome toOn Your Radar, a series where we take a look at what’s next for the biggest actors and filmmakers, and why you should be excited … or not.)
Initially, the live-actionStar Warsseries,The Mandalorian,was the flagship show for Disney+, but this year has brought a new crop of Marvel shows to the streamer.WandaVision,The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, andLoki— not to mention Premier Access movie titles likeRaya and the Last Dragon,Cruella,Black Widow,andJungle Cruise— have all made a Disney+ subscription more of a must-have in 2021. This week also saw the release ofWhat If…?, a new animated series set within the MCU (which may soon need to rebrand itself as the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse).
Here are several other upcoming Disney+ shows to watch out for in the coming months, plus a brief overview of what viewers can expect to see in 2022 and beyond.
Star Wars: Visions – July 24, 2025
AnimeStar Wars. ‘Nuff said. But if you really want to know more, there are plenty of detailshere. Suffice it to say,Star Wars: Visionsis an anthology series where the episodes are considered short films, each with a different animator or animation studio behind it. It seeks to celebrate “theStar Warsgalaxy through the lens of the world’s best Japanese anime creators.”
Some episodes will take place after the events ofThe Rise of Skywalkerand at least one will be set beforeThe Phantom Menace. So they will cover a wide range ofStar Warstime periods. The prospect of seeing the franchise go back toits Japanese rootsis an obvious lure withStar Wars: Visions.
Hawkeye – June 08, 2025
Jeremy Renner’s MCU character, Clint Barton, finally gets a chance to headline his own solo adventure. At this point, he’s the only one of the original six movie Avengers who hasn’t done that. Renner is a two-time Oscar nominee but theAvengersfilms have often given Hawkeye short shrift. InThe Avengers, Loki’s mind control reduced him to such a minion that the actorbegged Marvelto kill off his character. Now, he’s in the slightly unenviable position of being the next live-action Marvel show afterLoki(arguably a tough act to follow).
Marvel left Hawkeye out ofInfinity Warand they actually had the perfect opening to kill him off inEndgamebut elected to do that with someone else instead. (Hint: she’s nowsuing Disney). It’s alright, the future of the Avengersmay be young, anyway. WhenHawkeyehits Disney+, it will introduce Kate Bishop, played byHailee Steinfeld, as Hawkeye’s new archery protege. She’ll be joined byFlorence Pugh’s Yelena fromBlack Widowin a show that is sure to set up plot developments for the MCU’s future.
The Beatles: Get Back – November 25-27, 2021
The day afterHawkeyehits, this three-part, Peter Jackson-directed Beatles docuseries will also premiere. The official press release onTheBeatles.comnotes that each episode ofThe Beatles: Get Back"is approximately two hours in length" and that they will roll out “over three days, November 25, 26, and 27, 2021, exclusively on Disney+.”
We haven’t seen much of Jackson since he concludedThe Hobbittrilogy back in 2014. His only other directorial credit since then is the 2018 World War I documentary,They Shall Not Grow Old, which earned a BAFTA Award nomination (and arave review from us), and which currently holds a99%Tomatometer rating. Combine the promise he showed there as a documentary filmmaker with the greatest rock band of all time, and you have a recipe for must-see TV.
The Book of Boba Fett – December 2021
This year, in place ofThe Mandalorianseason 3 (which won’t hit until 2022),Star Warsfans will have a chance to catch up with the bounty hunter who first made Mandalorian helmets fashionable onscreen.Temuera Morrisonreturns as Boba Fett along withMing Na-Wenas his assassin companion, Fennec Shan.
For anyone curious about what happened to Fett afterReturn of the Jedibut beforeThe Mandalorian, this show will help fill in some of those gaps in the character’s history. Should we gird our loins for aflashbackwith him crawling out of the Sarlacc sandpit in the Tatooine desert? One thing’s for sure:The Book of Boba Fetthassome talented directorsattached to it, and with Fett ascending Jabba the Hutt’s throne when we last saw him, there are surely any number of stories they could tell with him as a crime boss in theStar Warsunderworld.
Other Marvel and Star Wars Shows – 2022 and Beyond
Disney+ has aslew of new Marvel showson the way post-2021.Ms. Marvelhasn’t set a release date yet butis expectedto bow next year.Moon KnightstarringOscar IsaacandShe-HulkstarringTatiana Maslanyare both set to debut in 2022 as well. Premiere dates forSecret Invasion,Ironheart,Armor Wars,I Am Groot,Lokiseason 2, and several untitled series (focused onWakanda,Okoye, andEcho) are all to be announced.
On theStar Warsside of things, there’sAndorandObi-Wan Kenobi, both of which have seemingly been confirmed for 2022 by various official and semiofficial sources. Beyond that, there are theMandalorianspin-offsAhsokaandRangers of the New Republicas well asLando,The Acolyte,andA Droid Story.
