Russo Brothers to Direct ‘Avengers’ 5 and 6, Now Titled ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ and ‘Secret Wars’

Marvel formally confirmed that Joe and Anthony Russo on stage to announce that they’ll be directing each “Avengers 5” (now titled “Avengers: Doomsday”) and “Avengers: Secret Wars.” Stephen McFeely, who cowrote the Russos’ earlier Marvel movies with Christopher Markus, will write the screenplays for each motion pictures.

Marvel introduced the Russo Brothers’ return by first displaying a sizzle of all the Marvel Studios movies the Russos had beforehand directed — “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” “Captain America: Civil Battle,” “Avengers: Infinity Battle” and “Avengers: Endgame.” As they walked out, the thunderous crowd shouted “Russo! Russo!”

The Russos mentioned, “We missed you guys. You’re the greatest rattling followers on the earth.”

“With the ability to create tales and discover characters throughout the Marvel Universe fulfilled a life-long dream of ours, and we found a robust reference to audiences in every movie that we made,” the Russo Brothers mentioned in a press release. “We’re thrilled to collaborate as soon as once more with Kevin, Lou, and all the Marvel group to carry this epic journey in storytelling to new and stunning locations for each the followers and ourselves.”

“Are we actually gonna do that? Hear me out, after we directed ‘Avengers: Endgame,’ Joe and I really believed it was the tip of the street for us within the Marvel Cinematic Universe,” Anthony mentioned from the Comedian-Con stage.

After an “Avengers: Secret Wars” emblem appeared on display, Joe mentioned, “There’s one crucial character that’s required to do ‘Secret Wars’ justice… it may very well be a very powerful character in all the Marvel Universe.” Actors dressed as Physician Doom flooded the stage and eerie music performed all through Corridor H.

The fifth “Avengers” film will now be referred to as “Avengers: Doomsday.” And Physician Doom might be performed by Robert Downey, Jr. himself.

Followers had been first launched to Kang — or relatively, a variant of him referred to as He Who Stays — within the first season of Marvel’s “Loki” sequence. We solely correctly met Kang the Conqueror in “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.” He was set to be the villain on the heart of actually all the things for the following few phases, a lá Thanos, however in December Jonathan Majors, the actor who performed Kang, was discovered responsible on costs of assault and harassment in his New York home violence case.

Following the decision, Marvel fired him, and hadn’t indicated how they could fill the outlet of their universe till now.

“Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” and “Avengers: Secret Wars” had been first introduced again in 2022, as soon as once more throughout Marvel’s Corridor H panel. “The Kang Dynasty” was set to hit theaters on Might 2, 2025, with “Secret Wars” following on Nov. 7, 2025.

“Avengers: Doomsday” will now arrive in Might 2026, with “Avengers: Secret Wars” in Might 2027.

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