Disney+ has officially quit consistently releasing new episodes of a storied Marvel Studios series, suggesting the long-running show has been canceled. When Marvel began expanding the MCU to television in 2021 with the release of WandaVision, a second, lesser-known Marvel show was released alongside it. Titled Marvel Studios' Assembled, the documentary series took fans behind the scenes of making the studios' recent TV and film releases, with every scripted MCU project from 2021 until 2024 receiving an episode.
2024 seems to have marked the end of Marvel Studios' Assembled, as no new episodes of the series have been released on Disney+ in 2025, despite several new MCU projects coming out this year.
Marvel Studios Has (Likely) Cancelled These Other Disney+ Series
Ms. Marvel
Premiering in Summer 2022, Ms. Marvel was a (mostly) true-to-the-comics adaptation of one of Marvel's newest but most beloved heroes, Kamala Khan. Then-newcomer Iman Vellani took on the role and imbued Kamala with a joyous, youthful zeal as a mysterious hand-me-down bangle unlocked her dormant Mutant abilities.
Sadly, despite Vellani's critically acclaimed reprisal of Kamala in The Marvels, there hasn't been any noticeable movement on bringing Ms. Marvel back for another round. The Disney+ series has not been renewed for Season 2. Not to mention, one of its stars, Aramis Knight, who played Red Dagger, recently expressed great doubt that another Ms. Marvel season is in the cards. It's worth noting that Ms. Marvel still stands as the highest-rated live-action MCU series on Disney+.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
Delving into the tried and true genre of workplace sitcom, 2022's She-Hulk: Attorney at Law centered around Jen Walters, cousin to MCU mainstay Dr. Bruce Banner. In the nine-episode show, Jen tried to balance work, dating, and her newfound ability to transform into a super-strong, green-skinned Hulk after an accident involving Bruce's gamma-irradiated blood.
She-Hulk was, in a word, expensive. On top of the fact that its lead character was CGI at least half the time, the show also had to budget for action sequences and multiple other gamma-powered beings (including the Hulk himself). So high was She-Hulk's price tag that in 2024, lead actress Tatiana Maslany stated that Disney+ had called it quits on more, commenting that the program "blew [its] budget."
Secret Invasion
In 2023, after a decade and a half, Marvel Studios finally gave Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury, a man who had been in the franchise since the very outset, a solo project. Secret Invasion chronicled Fury's battles with a sect of Skrulls who were fed up with waiting for the ex-SHIELD director to find them their promised new home.
Even the staunchest MCU fans typically have something negative to say about Secret Invasion. Criticisms include uninspired plotting, predictable twists, and the needless deaths of two well-liked characters. But even ignoring the backlash, Secret Invasion told a self-contained story, and there's little room, narratively speaking, to return to the well for Season 2.
Echo
In Echo from 2024, Alaqua Cox returned to the fray after her debut in Hawkeye. The spin-off pulled back the curtain on the backstory of Cox's Maya Lopez, from her time as Wilson Fisk's protégé, to her rejection of Fisk as a surrogate father figure. The show's five episode run also returned Maya to her home and her family in Tamaha, Oklahoma to heal decade-old wounds.
Despite a compelling story, likable characters, and a respite from the MCU's usual CGI glitz and glam, Echo failed to make a large enough splash to earn it another season. Of course, there's always the chance that Maya Lopez will return to New York City to be a part of Matt Murdock's so-called army and stand in the face of her old mentor, Wilson Fisk, in Daredevil: Born Again Season 2.
What If...?
Debuting in 2021, What If...? is Marvel Studios' first ever in-house animated show. Its cosmically-powered, all-seeing narrator Uatu the Watcher took audiences on a guided tour of Marvel's incalculably vast Mutlverse. Various alternate timelines were explored, including worlds where Ultron defeated the Avengers and Peggy Carter became a super soldier instead of Steve Rogers.
One of Marvel's top executives, Brad Winderbaum, who oversees the MCU's television output, definitively closed the book on another multiversal jaunt for What If...? in late 2024. Winderbaum described the show's Season 3 finale as What If...?'s "finish line." But at least one thread from What If...? will continue unraveling in Marvel Zombies. The horror-themed project will carry on what began in its mothership series' fifth episode and will appropriately arrive during the spookiest month of the year: October.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Marvel's second live-action show produced for Disney+ was The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which brought fans along for the ride for an at-times begrudging team-up between Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes. The pair grappled with their place in the world now that the glue that bound them together, their mutual friend, Steve Rogers, was gone. In the final episode, Sam accepted big new responsibilities as the next Captain America.
A feature film based around now-Captain America Sam Wilson was announced in the months following the finale episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Captain America: Brave New World landed in theaters on February 14, and the MCU's Star-Spangled Man with a Plan will next headline 2026's Avengers: Doomsday. At this point, it seems very unlikely that Sam Wilson's Cap will return to TV in any major capacity. Suffice it to say, he's got a lot on his plate.
Marvel Studios' Assembled
The last Marvel Studios' Assembled specials were for Deadpool & Wolverine and Agatha All Along, which came out in 2024. There have been no episodes for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Captain America: Brave New World, Daredevil: Born Again, or Thunderbolts*, all of which have been released recently and would typically receive a Marvel Studios' Assembled special.
Episodes of Marvel Studios' Assembled would typically be released in the week after an MCU Disney+ series aired its finale episode, or anywhere from 2-6 months after the theatrical release date of an MCU film. While the episodes for Captain America 4 or Thunderbolts* may still be in the pipeline, the fact that neither Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man nor Daredevil: Born Again has received Marvel Studios' Assembled specials since their season finales seems to signal the documentary series (which has become Marvel Studios' longest-running Disney+ series) has been abandoned by the studio.
The writing may have been on the wall for Marvel Studios' Assembled at the end of last year, when Marvel Studios opted to release Marvel Studios' Assembled: The Making of Agatha All Along for free, exclusively on YouTube, rather than on Disney+. Over the last eight months, Marvel has released select episodes of Marvel Studios' Assembled on YouTube, including The Making of Black Widow, The Making of WandaVision, and The Making of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
Will Marvel Studios' Assembled Ever Return?
Without an official cancellation notice from Marvel Studios, it's still possible that new episodes of Marvel Studios' Assembled could be released in the future.
Fans have generally been very receptive to these behind-the-scenes specials, with The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever even receiving attention at the Black Reel Awards. Over on YouTube, the series has also been received popularly, with The Making of Agatha All Along gaining over 1 million views, despite a lack of a Disney+ release.
With the rise of streaming and the decline of physical media, documentaries like Marvel Studios' Assembled are one of the only ways fans can access the bonus features that were once reserved for Blu-Ray or DVD releases. This makes them a valuable resource for fans who are hungry to learn about the making of the MCU.
That being said, with Marvel Studios (and its parent company, Disney) making cuts to content across the board, Marvel Studios' Assembled may just be another victim of these cost-cutting measures. It could be too difficult to justify commissioning a documentary crew on these projects, particularly if there is no revenue to be gained from the episodes on Disney+.
It remains possible that the studio will resurrect Marvel Studios' Assembled, but it may reserve these episodes for its marquee projects, like The Fantastic Four: First Steps or Avengers: Doomsday & Secret Wars, where there is likely to be the largest possible audience.
