Disney’s second quarter earnings call is underway right now, but there’s already some Marvel Studios news to come out of it.

During the Q&A section someone asked Bob Iger about the future of the Marvel franchise and Avengers based on the ending to Avengers: Infinity War. Iger wouldn’t name any new movies, only talking about the ones they’ve announced so far (Ant Man and The Wasp, Captain Marvel, and Avengers 4), but he did say that they meet with Marvel regularly and have plotted out the movies into the next decade already. He also said that they may try their hand at a new Marvel franchise, without naming it specifically.

Readers of this site will recognize that new franchise as The Eternals, which is something Kevin Feige confirmed was on the table recently as well.

This earnings call is specifically for Disney as it exists now, and they’re not allowed to talk about any Fox stuff yet or even talk about the merger as if it was finished (because it isn’t). So this new franchise he was hinting at isn’t any Fox property as that is still up in the air right now. That means he talking about The Eternals as the new franchise.

He also did say that even with Infinity War Avengers 4, it doesn’t mean that we won’t see Avengers anymore. That’s still Marvel’s flagship franchise and there will be more Avengers in the future.

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