Speaking a retrospective video of his career to promote Eric<\/a> on Netflix<\/a>, Cumberbatch turned to the role of Doctor Strange, which he has played in six MCU<\/a> films thus far, as well as voicing the character in animated Disney Plus<\/a> series What If\u2026?.<\/p>\n Bringing his discussion of the character to a close, he said: \u201cI\u2019m very much looking forward to Avengers next year, which is cooking up a storm\u201d.<\/p>\n Avengers 5 was initially announced as Avengers: Kang Dyanasty, but since Kang star Jonathan Majors was dropped by Marvel Studios<\/a>, after he was found guilty of assaulting and harassing his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari, it is unclear whether the title and plot of the film will remain as planned.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n We do know that Marvel isn\u2019t afraid to switch up its plans, with Disney CEO Bob Iger confirming that that the studio has pivoted in recent months to focus on a quality over quantity strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cI\u2019ve been working hard with the studio to reduce output and focus more on quality, that\u2019s particularly true with Marvel. We\u2019re slowly going to decrease volume and go to probably about two TV series a year instead of what had become four, and reduce our film output from maybe four a year to two or, at the maximum, three.<\/p> \u201cAnd we\u2019re working hard on what that path is, we\u2019ve got a couple of good films in \u201925 and then we\u2019re heading to more Avengers, which we\u2019re extremely excited about.\u201d<\/p>\n The only film being released by the company this year is Deadpool & Wolverine<\/a>, which stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman and will release this summer.<\/p>\n Avengers 5 will be released on 1st May 2026. Past Marvel series and films are available to stream on Disney Plus. You can sign up to Disney Plus for \u00a34.99 a month or \u00a379.90 a year<\/a>\u00a0now.<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out more of our\u00a0Film<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to find out what\u2019s on. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n The new instalment in the franchise is set to start filming next year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":53653,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/avengers-5-is-cooking-up-a-storm-teases-benedict-cumberbatch-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/avengers-5-is-cooking-up-a-storm-teases-benedict-cumberbatch-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/avengers-5-is-cooking-up-a-storm-teases-benedict-cumberbatch-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/avengers-5-is-cooking-up-a-storm-teases-benedict-cumberbatch-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/avengers-5-is-cooking-up-a-storm-teases-benedict-cumberbatch-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/avengers-5-is-cooking-up-a-storm-teases-benedict-cumberbatch-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/avengers-5-is-cooking-up-a-storm-teases-benedict-cumberbatch-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The new instalment in the franchise is set to start filming next year.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/53652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Doctor](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-22-at-16.27.40-31343ee.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413\" "\\"doctor-strange-multiverse-of-madness-trailer-newsupdate\\"\/")
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