Earlier this year, we brought you reports on two Marvel Studios properties that were rumored to be in-the-works at the big screen wing over at the House of Ideas. Those post-Avengers projects were The Inhumans and Guardians of the Galaxy.

According to Entertainment Weekly’s latest issue (via io9), the rumored projects are in fact a part of Marvel Studios‘ post-Avengers pipeline. After Joss Whedon‘s superhero team-up film for Marvel, Iron Man 3 and Thor 2 will hit theaters, followed by the two ensemble hero films, Guardians of the Galaxy and The Inhumans.

Guardians of the Galaxy, originally created by Arnold Drake and Gene Colan in 1969, and a new incarnation of the team was created in 2008 by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning.

A far-future story revolving around a group of alien beings – each the last of their kind – who eventually travel back in time to protect the earth from alien invasion.

Feige says “There’s an opportunity to do a big space epic, which Thor sort of hints at, in the cosmic side of the [Marvel] universe.”

The Inhumans, originally created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby:

At the beginning of the Kree-Skrull War, millions of years ago in Earth time, the alien Kree established a station on the planet Uranus, a strategic position between the Kree and Skrull empires. Through their work at this station, they discovered that sentient life on nearby Earth had genetic potential invested in it by the alien Celestials. Intrigued, the Kree began to experiment on Earth’s then-primitive homo sapiens by splicing Eternals DNA into Cro-Magnons.

Their goal was apparently twofold — to investigate possible ways of circumventing their own evolutionary stagnation, and to create a powerful mutant race of soldiers for use against the Skrulls. However, although their experiments were successful in creating a strain of humanity with extraordinary abilities, the Kree abandoned their experiment for reasons which are not yet clear.

Their test subjects, the Inhumans, went on to form a society of their own, which thrived in seclusion from the rest of humanity and developed advanced technology. Experiments with the mutagenic Terrigen Mist gave them various powers, but also caused lasting genetic damage and deformities. via Marvel

If either The Inhumans or Guardians of the Galaxy becomes a film, Feige says you should expect an X-Men style ensemble, along the lines of The Avengers.

What about writer-director Edgar Wright‘s big screen adaptation of Ant-Man?

EW says it’s “still nebulous but definitely in the works,” and Marvel’s President of Production, Kevin Feige says that Wright has “developed an excellent draft recently“.

What about Runaways? What about Doctor Strange? What about Black Panther, or Iron Fist?