{"id":412881,"date":"2026-07-26T14:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T14:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/412881\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T14:26:11","slug":"marvel-confirmed-a-nova-movie-after-its-san-diego-comic-con-panel-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/412881\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel confirmed a Nova movie after its San Diego Comic-Con panel ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel Studios will once again explore the cosmic side of the MCU with a new movie based on the superhero Nova. It just wasn&#8217;t an announcement that was ready to be fully unveiled during the Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday at <a href=\"http:\/\/polygon.com\/sdcc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Diego Comic-Con<\/a>, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige unveiled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/marvel-ghost-rider-movie-ryan-gosling-comic-con\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ghost Rider<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/black-panther-3-announcement-marvel-comic-con\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Black Panther 3<\/a> alongside updates on Avengers: Doomsday. A movie about Nova was conspicuously absent despite being previously reported <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/07\/michael-waldron-nova-movie-marvel-studios-1236981012\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">by Deadline<\/a>, but we learned more about it soon after.<\/p>\n<p>In a post-panel interview with Brandon Davis, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige was asked if a Nova movie was happening. After a publicist present told Feige that Marvel had said &#8220;not a damn thing&#8221; about Nova, Feige told Davis, &#8220;Not a damn thing, but it&#8217;s a movie.&#8221; While playful, this is the first official confirmation that a Nova adaptation is in the works.<\/p>\n<p>News of a Nova movie was reported earlier this month, with screenwriter Michael Waldron attached to pen the feature. Waldron is a veteran of Marvel&#8217;s recent phases, having created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23955626\/loki-season-2-ending-explained-yggdrasil-world-tree-kang-he-who-remains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Loki<\/a>, written <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/reviews\/23054675\/doctor-strange-2-review-multiverse-madness-spoiler-free-mcu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness<\/a>, and co-written Avengers: Doomsday. A previous version of Nova was reportedly in development as a Disney Plus series, but that got scrapped.<\/p>\n<p>Nova is traditionally Richard Rider, a member of the Nova Corps \u2014 which already appeared in the first Guardians of the Galaxy and counts Glenn Close, John C. Reilly, and Peter Serafinowicz among its ranks. They&#8217;re an intergalactic police force, and Rider is one of their standout members.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also the only surviving centurion member when the Corps gets hit badly by Annihilus in Annihilation, a standout Marvel Comics event that helped set the stage for the eventual Guardians of the Galaxy stories that James Gunn&#8217;s films would take inspiration from.<\/p>\n<p>Next up for Marvel this year is Spider-Man: Brand New Day in July, VisionQuest in October, and Avengers: Doomsday in December. A Nova movie likely won&#8217;t arrive until 2029 at the earliest, because Avengers: Secret Wars, Ghost Rider, and Black Panther 3 are all expected before it.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/marvel-studios-nova-movie-in-development-mcu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img width=\"440\" height=\"248\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anthropomorphic raccoon Rocket (body acted by Sean Penn, voiced by Bradley Cooper) sits in the cockpit of a spaceship in full Guardians of the Galaxy blue-and-red jumpsuit uniform in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/WSA0760_comp_WTA_v0185.1007_R.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/WSA0760_comp_WTA_v0185.1007_R.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Related<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/marvel-studios-nova-movie-in-development-mcu\/\" title=\"Marvel&#039;s next big solo movie could revive the Guardians of the Galaxy era\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tMarvel&#8217;s next big solo movie could revive the Guardians of the Galaxy era<br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Welcome to the MCU, Richard Rider (maybe?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel Studios will once again explore the cosmic side of the MCU with a new movie based on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-412881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}