Everything Coming To Disney+ In 2021

We always knew Disney+ would be a force to be reckoned with, and the streaming service proved that right out of the gate when it launched with The Mandalorian, a massive live-action Star Wars series that became the internet's favorite show after it debuted in the fall of 2019. The streaming service had a good year in 2020 once again, but various COVID-19-related delays meant some of its most-anticipated new series had to wait just a little longer. Now, with 2021 dawning, we're set for a true Disney+ boom.

As we head into 2021, the Mouse House's streaming home is set to debut several brand new live-action series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a new animated series and a new live-action series from the realm of Star Wars, three new Pixar animated series, a brand-new Walt Disney Animation Studios original movie, a reboot of a '90s sports comedy classic, and much, much more. From WandaVision to The Mighty Ducks, this is what's coming to Disney+ in 2021 that you should get excited about right now.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been in something of a holding pattern for quite some time thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, which delayed the release of Black Widow and Eternals to theaters and put Marvel's planned launch of its various Disney+ shows on hold. As 2021 began, though, that was set to change in a big way, and it all begins with WandaVision, a very strange series that now serves as the de facto entry to point the MCU's Phase 4.

Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany return to reprise their title roles as the two phenomenally powerful superheroes and lovers who find themselves trying to fit into a suburban environment in the wake of Avengers: Endgame, but all is not what it seems. Wanda and Vision are not just living in the suburbs. They're living in a constantly shifting sitcom version of the suburbs, complete with a wacky neighbor (Kathryn Hahn) and all manner of other strange occurrences. Whatever's really going on could have drastic consequences for the future of the MCU.

Also starring Teyonah Parris, Randall Park, and Kat Dennings, WandaVision premiered January 15 on Disney+ with its first two episodes.

Of all the villainous characters to emerge from the early years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Tom Hiddleston's Loki always seemed like the one who'd be most capable of carrying his own side story someday. Now, that's finally coming to fruition in the form of a new Disney+ miniseries, simply titled Loki.

Hiddleston returns to the MCU as the version of the Asgardian trickster god who vanished in the midst of Avengers: Endgame after stealing the Tesseract when it fell to the floor in 2012. That act of theft, and Loki's subsequent disappearance, creating the potential for an alternate timeline that would allow the 2012 version of Loki to thrive even after the 2018 Loki (who died in Avengers: Infinity War) was gone. Unfortunately for Loki, these crosstime voyages also attract the attention of the Time Variance Authority, a police force within the MCU dedicated to stopping timeline deviances, and therefore trying to manage Loki's mischief.

Also starring Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sasha Lane, and Wunmi Mosaku, Loki arrives in May of 2021.

In 2018, Marvel Studios introduced Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) as Captain Marvel, and while she's only been in a couple of films so far we're already seeing just how big her impact on the MCU will eventually be. In the comics, Captain Marvel's prominence is so great that she actually inspires one young fan who follows in her footsteps to take up her old mantle of Ms. Marvel, and in 2021 that young hero will make her live-action debut in her own Disney+ series.

Ms. Marvel will star Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan, a young Pakistani-American girl who loves superheroes with boundless enthusiasm but struggles to fit in both at home and at school. Then, when a strange occurrence means she gets superpowers of her very own, Kamala finally sees an opportunity to join the superhero community she's dreamed of being closer to for so long — but superpowers aren't as fun and easy as they seem.

The new series will introduced Kamala to the world ahead of her big-screen debut in Captain Marvel 2, and arrives on Disney+ in late 2021.

Though Frozen II blew up the box office in 2019, 2020 came and went without a new original movie from Walt Disney Animation Studios. Thankfully, 2021 won't continue that drought, as March of this year brings the release of the 59th animated feature from the studio, Raya and the Last Dragon.

Set in the fictional world of Kumandra, a land heavily inspired by various Southeast Asian cultures, the film follows the warrior princess Raya (Star Wars' Kelly Marie Tran) as she attempts to track down the last dragon (voiced by Awkwafina) living in a world where they've long since been wiped out, so that she can save her homeland from a group of monsters.

Raya and the Last Dragon was originally set for a theatrical release in the fall of 2020, approximately one year after Frozen II. Sadly, the COVID-19 pandemic meant that Disney held back its release until 2021. In December of 2020, during Disney's Investor Day presentation, the company announced that Raya and the Last Dragon will now be simultaneously released in theaters and on Disney+ on March 5, 2021.

There are a great many Star Wars projects developing for the small screen at the moment, but many of them will have to wait until 2022 or later to see the light of day. In the meantime, The Clone Wars might have finally wrapped up its run in 2020, but two new major pieces of Star Wars animation are making their way to Disney+ in 2021.

The biggest of these is The Bad Batch, a new animated series that serves as a Clone Wars follow-up. It focuses on the title "batch" of Clone Troopers, a group of elite clones with various mutations that give them special abilities and make them an ideal mercenary squadron in the aftermath of the Clone Wars. Clone Wars veteran Dee Bradley Baker and The Mandalorian co-star Ming-Na Wen are expected to provide voices for the series.

Then there's Star Wars: Visions, a new 10-episode anthology series that promises to change the way we see Star Wars by framing a galaxy far, far away through the lens of some of the world's greatest anime creators.

Neither series has a firm release date yet, but it seems we can expect The Bad Batch to arrive earlier in 2021 than Visions.

If there's one thing Disney is very good at, it's milking our nostalgia for all its worth, but some of those nostalgia-mining projects generate more excitement than others. One that's generating quite a bit of excitement since its announcement is The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, a new Disney+ series that serves as a sequel to the popular film franchise of the same name.

The series will follow a young hockey player (Brady Noon) who gets booted from The Mighty Ducks junior hockey franchise and tries to form of a team of his own. In an effort to help him through it, the boy's mother (Lauren Graham) reaches out to the original Mighty Ducks coach, Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez, reprising his role). The series is expected to arrive sometime in the early months of 2021, presenting all manner of opportunities for callbacks, reunions, and expansions of the Mighty Ducks story that began as the tale of a former hockey great just trying to do some community service.