Disney+ Finally Confirms X-Men '97 Season 4's Future

Marvel's having quite the shuffle in 2026 – and honestly, it's a bit of a head-scratcher trying to keep pace with all the Disney+ series on the way versus the actual number of films coming out. If you've lost track, you’re not alone. This year kicked off with Wonder Man and the second season of Daredevil: Born Again, with VisionQuest looming for release in October. Over on the animated side, Marvel's not exactly resting either, lining up new seasons of X-Men '97 and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man for Disney+ later in the year.

Marvel Goes Yearly with its Hits

Here’s a curious shift: Marvel isn’t just cranking out new titles every month, they’re actively doubling down on annual releases for the shows that are landing well. The idea is, if something works, get it out there every year instead of sitting on it for half a decade—makes sense, and frankly it’s about time. For instance:

• Daredevil: Born Again got its third season greenlit before anyone had seen the second.
• Wonder Man became the first Marvel Spotlight series to get renewed on the back of massive January viewership.
• Now, X-Men '97 joins the list, becoming the latest Marvel project to get both a renewal and a promise of no more ridiculous waits between seasons.

What’s Happening with X-Men '97?

Executive producer Eric Lewald, doing the rounds with Entertainment Weekly, dropped some actual details. He confirmed they’re already hard at work on Season 4—even though Season 2 hasn't even aired yet. To put that in perspective: the writing team isn’t just looking at scripts for Season 3, they’re full-on giving feedback on Season 4 scripts while building animatics for Season 3. (If you want to see what hustle looks like in the animator world, that’s it.)

Here’s the main bit Lewald wanted to get across—he even repeated it, so it’s clearly important:

'They want everyone to know it"s only gonna be a year now between seasons, not two-and-a-quarter years. It"s gonna be a year until the next one and a year until the next one [after that]. They are on schedule now. One of the reasons they"re on schedule is we"ve gone over, given notes on, responded to not only the scripts for Season 3, all the animatics for Season 3, we are in Season 4 giving script notes. So that"s how deep they are into the development.'

In other words, Marvel aims to drop a new season every single year from here on out, instead of making fans wait two years plus, which honestly is a welcome change—no one’s memory is that good.

Season 2: What’s Actually Coming?

If you’re wondering what’s ahead for Season 2, the first official trailer finally landed in May, confirming that new episodes roll out 1 July 2026 on Disney+. All the big attention is going to Apocalypse, who’s apparently set on destroying the X-Men—and, because subtlety is for lesser villains, he’s doing it across not one but two time periods: way, way back in Ancient Egypt (3000 B.C.) and then far-off in the future (3960 A.D.).

There’s more: new faces are joining, notably Polaris, and there’s even a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shot of Morph shapeshifting into Deadpool—cue the immediate memes—so it’s looking like a high drama, high chaos year for the mutant crew.

X-Men '97 Cast

If you’re curious who’s actually behind the voices, the main cast of X-Men '97 includes:

• Ray Chase as Cyclops
• Jennifer Hale as Jean Grey
• Alison Sealy-Smith as Storm
• Cal Dodd as Wolverine
• George Buza as Beast
• A.J. LoCascio as Gambit
• Lenore Zann as Rogue
• Holly Chou as Jubilee
• Matthew Waterson as Magneto
• Adrian Hough as Nightcrawler
• Chris Britton as Mr. Sinister
• Isaac Robinson-Smith as Bishop
• Gui Agustini as Sunspot
• JP Karliak as Morph

Predicting anything about Season 4 is a bit pointless at this stage since it’s not going to land until 2028 at the earliest—that’s optimistic, frankly. But for now, Season 2 is locked for July and, unless Marvel gets cold feet, we can stop worrying about endless waits between series.