Marvel composer and director Michael Giacchino has confirmed a sequel to black-and-white Disney+ special Werewolf By Night is coming soon.
Speaking to Deadline, Giacchino said the follow-up was his next project — suggesting that production would begin imminently.
The veteran composer — who has previously worked on half a dozen other Marvel projects, as well as a raft of movies, TV series and video games — made his MCU directing debut with Werewolf by Night, which dropped onto Disney+ as a Halloween-themed TV special back in 2022.
To date, its characters — including the eponymous werewolf Jack Russell, monster hunter Elsa Bloodstone, and swamp creature Man-Thing — have yet to pop up in other Marvel projects, though Werewolf by Night was re-released with an optional color version a year later.
“If you haven’t seen it, watch it,” Giacchino said of the original. “It’s on Disney+ if you still have that,” he added, referencing the recent spate of subscriber cancellations during the brief suspension of chat show host Jimmy Kimmel.
The first Werewolf by Night leaves its characters mostly available to appear in future adventures, though Marvel has not said anything officially about where they will return. Indeed, this new confirmation by Giacchino is the first solid news that a sequel will be made — and there’s no word yet on who it will star or when it will arrive.
Could production move fast enough that it’s ready for Halloween 2026? As a one-off show with fewer visual effects than the usual Marvel project, it seems possible. And Marvel itself has taken a more cautious approach to announcing TV projects in recent years — only recently revealing more of the upcoming Wonder-Man (due to air in January, though filmed back in early 2023).
As part of the same interview, Giacchino said he re-composed the score for this year’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps after seeing a later cut of the movie in action, and realising it had changed from what he originally envisioned.
“Musically, when I’m writing, I like to start at the beginning and go through the end,” Giacchino said. “I had built this out based on one version of the movie. When I watched that music against the new version of the movie, I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is not working for me.'”
Next up for the MCU after Wonder-Man is an action-packed 2026, including Spider-Man: Brand New Day on July 31 and Avengers: Doomsday on December 18. On Disney+, the second season of Daredevil: Born Again begins on March 4, followed by a Punisher TV special, while VisionQuest will arrive at the end of the year.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach Tom at [email protected] or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
