The highly-anticipated X-Men '97 revival finally has a release window. As part of Marvel's San Diego Comic-Con panel on the studio's animated projects, Marvel confirmed the revival will hit Disney+ in Fall 2023. It will mark the first official X-Men project at Marvel Studios since Disney acquired 21st Century Fox's film and TV assets.

Just announced at #SDCC2022:

Marvel Studios’ X-Men ’97, an Original series, streaming Fall 2023 on @DisneyPlus. #XMen97 pic.twitter.com/h78d17GYsq

— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) July 22, 2022

Plenty of classic characters are returning to the show, including Rogue, Beast, Gambit, Jean Grey, Wolverine, Storm, Jubilee, and Cyclops. The designs are sticking true to the original looks from the 90s, but they'll be a bit sharper.

In a clip shown at the panel, Magneto appeared and said "You’re looking at he new leader of the X-Men." Other returning characters include Cable, Bishop, Forge, Morph, NIghtcrawler, and Sunspot. We also learned that one of the show's major themes will be, "Why do we still need the X-Men?"

As for villains, the panel showed off various Sentinels surrounding the X-Men, as well as Mr. Sinister. White Queen and Sebastian Shaw of the Hellfire Club were also confirmed to appear.

The revival of X-Men '97 was first announced last year. The original series' showrunners, Eric and Julia Lewald, are consulting on the new series. They previously confirmed that this show will pick up right where the original X-Men series wrapped up. The original series ended on somewhat of a cliffhanger, as Charles Xavier was gravely injured and had to be rescued by Empress Lilandra.

There was plenty announced at today's Marvel animation panel. For more, check out the reveals of Marvel Zombies, Spider-Man: Freshman Year, Marvel's What If…? Season 2, and I Am Groot. And, for everything else, check out our list of everything announced at SDCC 2022.

In addition to a brand new, three-minute trailer of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, fans attending the show’s Comic-Con panel got to see no fewer than five new scenes featuring some of the major characters introduced in the prequel series. It doesn’t appear that Amazon has released this footage online, but IGN can break down what we saw during the panel.

One of these scenes shows the debut of Daniel Weyman’s character The Stranger, who has just crashed into Middle-earth. Elanor ‘Nori’ Brandyfoot (Markella Kavenagh) and Poppy Proudfellow (Megan Richards) are seen approaching this mysterious character. No sooner does Nori poke the unconscious man than he awakens and fire and rocks begin to rise around him. The scene ends with the two Harfoot rescuers preparing to take the Stranger with them, after much prodding from Nori.

At this point, we still know very little about the origins or true nature of the Stranger, as that seems to be one of the central mysteries of Season 1. Weyman would only tease that his character is motivated by a profound sense of purpose and desire.

“All you can do as an actor is play what’s in front of you,” said Weyman, which moderator Stephen Colbert joked was “a beautiful non-answer.”

Another new scene focuses on Owain Arthur’s Prince Durin IV and Robert Aramayo’s Elrond, highlighting the unusual friendship between the two. The scene is set in what appears to be the mines of Khazad-dûm, as Elrond and Durin take part in a competition to split a giant boulder. If Elrond loses, he’ll be banished from dwarven lands forever. Unfortunately, the scene ends before we learn whether he wins or loses.

Morfydd Clark’s Galadriel was showcased in two separate scenes. In one, Galadriel and Elrond can be seen conversing in Elvish, as they discuss the state of their army, such as it is in this deceptively peaceful period. Another shows Galadriel riding a ship to the island of Númenor, a key locale in the Second Age.

Finally, the panel showed off a clip of battle between elves and orcs, with the two sides violently pulling on chains.

We've already seen a handful of teasers for The Rings of Power so far, giving us looks at Galadriel, Isildur, Elendil, and more familiar characters from Middle-earth. While we wait for its coming release on September 2, IGN has a primer on what The Rings of Power is actually about, as well as why we probably won't see Gandalf anywhere.

There's tons of news for all your favorite shows, films, games, and more coming out of San Diego Comic-Con 2022, and we've got the full schedule to guide you through the weekend of panels, announcements, trailers, and surprises.

During SDCC 2022, we learned more information on Spider-Man: Freshman Year, the prequel series announced at Disney+ Day last year that focuses on the MCU Spider-Man during his freshman year of high school. This includes confirmation that the animated show will launch on Disney+ in 2024, and Charlie Cox's Daredevil will appear in the series.

Just announced at #SDCC2022:

Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Freshman Year, an Original series, streaming in 2024 on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/v7sqUUHoPa

— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) July 22, 2022

Charlie Cox's Daredevil appearing in Spider-Man: Freshman year comes a few weeks after it was reported that Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio would return and reprise their roles as Daredevil and Kingpin in the upcoming live-action Disney+ series, Echo. In 2021 Kevin Feige said in an interview with CinemaBlend that Cox would return as Daredevil, with the actor making a brief cameo that same year in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Although no trailer was shown at the panel, we did get plenty of new details on the upcoming animated show outside of a release window and Cox returning to voice Daredevil. This includes confirmation of some villains set to appear in the series: Dr. Octavius, Chameleon, Speed Demon, Scorpion, and Butane the Pyromaniac. Additionally, Harry Osborn and Amadeus Cho will appear in the series.

The panel also revealed, that the second season of the show, subtitled "Sophomore Year," will focus on Peter's sophomore year of high school.

There's tons of news for all your favorite shows, films, games, and more coming out of San Diego Comic-Con 2022, and we've got the full schedule to guide you through the weekend of panels, announcements, trailers, and surprises.

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Upcoming Star Wars series The Acolyte will be led by Amandla Stenberg, most famous for playing Rue in The Hunger Games.

The official Star Wars Twitter account posted a short and sweet message (below) welcoming Stenberg to the franchise alongside a picture of them posing with R2-D2.

Stenberg will (presumably) play the titular Acolyte, a new sith in training, in a story told from the perspective of the bad guys. Taking place a century before The Phantom Menace, the show explores the end of the High Republic era and promises to be a "mystery thriller" inspired by martial arts movies.

Join us in welcoming Amandla Stenberg to the the Star Wars galaxy. #TheAcolyte https://t.co/PhriTUdZcv pic.twitter.com/LJp9LeZQik

— Star Wars (@starwars) July 22, 2022

Reports emerged in December last year that Stenberg was in talks with Disney to lead the upcoming series (that remains without a release date) but it's now finally official. They have more recently featured in the likes of As You Are, The Hate U Give and Dear Even Hansen.

We don't know too much else about the show, though it plans to bring back parts of the old Star Wars canon that was wiped when Disney acquired the franchise.

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Season Two of Marvel's What If…? will arrive for Disney+ subscribers in early 2023, with a third season confirmed for sometime in the future.

Revealed during Marvel's animation panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, a behind-closed-doors preview showed off a handful of heroes and villains from the MCU's multiversal realities, including Captain Carter, Steve Rogers as Iron Man, Black Widow, Thor Ragnarok's Hela, Young Star-Lord and Ego, The Scarlet Witch, Mandarin, and more. The preview also showed Thanos fighting Captain America from Infinity War.

Just announced at #SDCC2022:

Marvel Studios’ What If…? Season 2, an Original series, streaming early 2023 on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/zbqClqfrfJ

— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) July 22, 2022

The last part of the preview takes place in the year 1602, which is a year longtime Marvel Comics fans will remember. Marvel 1602 was a 2003 eight-issue miniseries penned by Neil Gaiman. The story follows Marvel superheroes that exist in the Elizabethan era, including Nick Fury, X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Doctor Doom, and more.

What If…? Director Bryan Andrews and Writer AC Bradley were on stage at Comic-Con to talk about the new season. They also pointed out that the Captain Carter seen in What If…? is not the Captain Carter that appeared in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The What If…? segment of the panel ended with confirmation that a third season of the show is planned.

Based on the comics line of the same name, What If…? tells canon stories from across the MCU multiverse, imagining events that differ wildly from the MCU stories we know from the live action movies and series. We awarded the first season a 6/10 review, saying it "features a few standout remixes of MCU canon, but inconsistency across the board leaves it with plenty to improve on for next season."

The show eventually became more important to the wider MCU than we expected, and Chadwick Boseman was posthumously nominated for an Emmy after his performance as a T'Challa take on Star-Lord in the show.

There's tons of news for all your favorite shows, films, games, and more coming out of San Diego Comic-Con 2022, and we've got the full schedule to guide you through the weekend of panels, announcements, trailers, and surprises.