Since the culminating end of 2019 avengers endgamewhich closed a chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe known as The Infinity Saga and grossed nearly $2.8 billion worldwide. wonder studios has focused on introducing new heroes and moving forward with sequels to some of its main characters.
But how revealed by Kevin Feige At Marvel’s San Diego Comic-Con presentation on Saturday, the Avengers are reuniting once again, with two back-to-back movies scheduled for 2025.
And while there are plenty of other movies to come before that one, the studio is already moving forward creatively with at least one of the superteam’s tentpoles.
Destin Daniel Crettonwho directed last year’s Marvel hit, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Ringshas come on board to direct Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, the hollywood reporter may disclose exclusively.
Cretton is already well installed in the Marvel family. In addition to directing shang chi, which grossed $432 million worldwide, has an overall deal with Marvel that he signed in the wake of Shang Chithe success of As part of that, he’s developing, with Andrew Guest, a writer and producer of comedies like brooklyn nine nine Y Community, a live-action series with Wonder Man that he will produce and possibly direct an episode or more. He also has a Shang Chi sequel in the works.
It is not clear who is writing the Kang dynasty The Avengers movie or which heroes would make up the team roster for a story to help close out Phase 6. Feige laid out a timeline he sees the kang dynasty arrive on May 2, 2025, with another avengers movie, avengers: secret wars, striking on November 7, 2025.
Kang is being played by Jonathan Majors and was introduced in a capacity in the Marvel series. Loki. Kang, or a version of him, will be reintroduced in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumaniawhich will be released on February 17, 2023. quantumania is the film that will launch Phase 5. In Loki, Majors played Kang with the nickname He Who Remains, but the actor said at Comic-Con that there are multiple Kangs and the one with Ant Man is different from that of Loki.
Marvel, which will conclude Phase 4 with this November Black Panther: Wakanda Foreverhas been slowly hiring directors for its next batch of films that will act as Phase 5 and Phase 6.
Marvel has confirmed to THR that Bassam Tariq (mogul mowgli) is directing Sword, scheduled for release on November 3, 2023; Julius Ona (light up) is directing Captain America: New World Order, which will star Anthony Mackie as Captain America and will be released on May 3, 2024; and Jake Schreier (Paper cities) is directing Raywhich will close Phase 5 with a release date of July 26, 2024.
directing a avengers The film is one of the most outstanding works. Joss Whedon directed the first two Avengers movies: 2012’s the Avengers and 2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron. And Joe and Anthony Russo shot the epic movie in two parts Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.
The Russos have long stated that they would like to run a secret wars movie, and most assumed they were referring to the key comic miniseries adaptation that came out in the mid-1980s. Marvel rarely fully adapts its stories, usually weaving various influences into one film, sometimes even breaking completely with the literary sources. To complicate matters, there is also a second secret wars, a 2015 story by writer Jonathan Hickman that involved the multiverse. In any case, after the panel, Feige indicated a Term that the Russos were not involved in secret wars.
Cretton, who rose through the dramatic ranks with films like Short Term 12 Y only mercyis represented by WME, Pangea Media and Goodman Genow.