Update: This article is now out of date, you’re looking forScreenplays of the Marvel Cinematic Universe 2021
Let me up front in saying, this list is incomplete, and will likely always remain so. Marvel may not have locked down their Phase 1 scripts much, but by Phase 2, scripts were impossible to get hold of. The only reason there are more for Phase 3 is that by that point Marvel had sufficient faith in their writers to start submitting them for Academy awards.
But I wanted a complete list of all the movies, so I could plug the gaps when scripts appeared in the wild.
Phase 1
Film | U.S. release date | Director | Screenwriter(s) |
Iron Man | May 2, 2008 | Jon Favreau | Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby and Art Marcum & Matt Holloway |
The Incredible Hulk | June 13, 2008 | Louis Leterrier | Zak Penn |
Iron Man 2 | May 7, 2010 | Jon Favreau | Justin Theroux |
Thor | May 6, 2011 | Kenneth Branagh | Ashley Edward Miller & Zack Stentz and Don Payne |
Captain America: The First Avenger | July 22, 2011 | Joe Johnston | Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely |
Marvel’s The Avengers | May 4, 2012 | Joss Whedon | Joss Whedon |
Phase 2
Film | U.S. release date | Director(s) | Screenwriter(s) |
Iron Man 3 | May 3, 2013 | Shane Black | Drew Pearce and Shane Black |
Thor: The Dark World | November 8, 2013 | Alan Taylor | Christopher L. Yost and Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely |
Captain America: The Winter Soldier | April 4, 2014 | Anthony and Joe Russo | Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely |
Guardians of the Galaxy | August 1, 2014 | James Gunn | James Gunn and Nicole Perlman |
Avengers: Age of Ultron | May 1, 2015 | Joss Whedon | Joss Whedon |
Ant-Man | July 17, 2015 | Peyton Reed | Edgar Wright & Joe Cornish and Adam McKay & Paul Rudd |
Phase 3
Film | U.S. release date | Director(s) | Screenwriter(s) |
Captain America: Civil War | May 6, 2016 | Anthony and Joe Russo | Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely |
Doctor Strange | November 4, 2016 | Scott Derrickson | Jon Spaihts and Scott Derrickson & C. Robert Cargill |
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | May 5, 2017 | James Gunn | James Gunn |
Spider-Man: Homecoming | July 7, 2017 | Jon Watts | Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley and Jon Watts & Christopher Ford and Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers |
Thor: Ragnarok | November 3, 2017 | Taika Waititi | Eric Pearson and Craig Kyle & Christopher L. Yost |
Black Panther | February 16, 2018 | Ryan Coogler | Ryan Coogler & Joe Robert Cole |
Avengers: Infinity War | April 27, 2018 | Anthony and Joe Russo | Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely |
Ant-Man and the Wasp | July 6, 2018 | Peyton Reed | Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers and Paul Rudd, Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari |
Captain Marvel | March 8, 2019 | Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck | Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck & Geneva Robertson-Dworet |
Avengers: Endgame | April 26, 2019 | Anthony and Joe Russo | Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely |