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Marvel Announces ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ and ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’ Directed by the Russo Brothers
Joe and Anthony Russo went onstage at Comic-Con to announce their return to Marvel to direct 'Secret Wars.'
The Russo brothers step in for Destin Daniel Cretton, who left the movie in November 2023 to focus on other Marvel projects on his docket, including a prospective sequel to his 2021 film “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.” Michael Waldron, who created Marvel’s Disney+ series “Loki,” is writing the script to this “Avengers” film and the follow-up, “Avengers: Secret Wars,” which is intended to be the “Endgame”-style conclusion to what studio chief Kevin Feige dubbed the Multiverse Saga in 2022. There is precedent for Marvel recasting a high profile role: Don Cheadle replaced Terrence Howard as James “Rhodey” Rhodes in “Iron Man 2” and Mark Ruffalo replaced Edward Norton as Bruce Banner in “The Avengers.” But that was after the original actor had only played the role once; Majors played Kang several times, including on the first and second seasons of “Loki,” and as the main villain in 2023’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.” In , Majors even appears as an army of Kang variants; taking over all of those performances would be a tall order for any new actor. More importantly, audiences haven’t exactly embraced Kang as a character, or the multiverse as a storytelling engine, in the same way that Thanos and the Infinity Saga served as sturdy narrative spines in the 2010’s.
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