Overview
- Marvel Animation announced at New York Comic Con on Thursday, October 8, 2026, that it has greenlit three Halloween-themed Marvel Zombies specials for Disney+ titled Marvel Zombies: The Winter Soldier (2027), The Fist of Khonshu (2028), and The Last Guardian (2029).
- Brad Winderbaum confirmed director Bryan Andrews will return to helm all three specials and Marvel listed studio-level executive producers including Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Dana Vasquez-Eberhardt, Zeb Wells and Winderbaum himself.
- The specials continue a line that began in Marvel comics and moved through the What If...? episode before becoming a 2025 animated Marvel Zombies series on Disney+, keeping the project in animation rather than live action.
- Reporters and fans are speculating about whether likenesses or MCU actors will return to voice characters in the new specials but Marvel has not confirmed any casting or how prior character fates in the zombie arc will be treated.
- Scheduling the releases for Halloween each year positions Marvel Zombies as a potential annual event on Disney+ and could sustain ongoing production, merchandising and fan engagement while shaping how Marvel handles alternate-universe stories in the streamer era.