Joe and Anthony Russo team up again.
The Russo brothers are in early talks to return to Marvel Studios to direct the next two Avengers films and one The Avengers According to sources, the film hollywood reporter.
The hiring caps the studio’s months-long high-stakes search for a filmmaker to oversee the fifth and sixth Avengers films. Several names are in dispute, including Deadpool and Wolverine Director Shawn Levy got the gig. Negotiations are at an early stage, sources said.
The move also marks a return to form for the Russells, who have played in roles such as stunted development and community Blockbusters from ten years ago Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014). Together they have directed four of Marvel’s biggest and most critically acclaimed films and continue to helm Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Their Marvel movies have a total box office of $6.681 billion, of which End Game It ranks second in global film history with a box office of US$2.79 billion.
In the years since, they’ve become super-producers under the AGBO banner, producing Best Picture winner everything happens at the same time and expensive books like Amazon fortress and Netflix extraction Movie. As directors, after becoming Marvel’s box-office kings but insisting on making streaming movies that didn’t reach the critical and cultural heights of their Marvel works, directed Tom Holland’s crime drama cherry (2021) Apple’s big-budget action movie gray man (2022) on Netflix. They also directed the upcoming sci-fi adventure power country For Netflix.
The fifth Avengers movie was previously titled Avengers: Kang Dynasty, and stars Jonathan Majors as the time-traveling villain Kang. But Marvel cut ties with the actor after he was found guilty of assault and harassment in December. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Director Destin Daniel Cretton was obsessed with directing Kang Dynasty, but he left a month before Majors was convicted. The feature is expected to get a new name and new focus.
The sixth Avengers movie is secret wars, a storyline the Russos have long talked about wanting to adapt. A two-part comic series from the 1980s focused on an all-powerful villain known as the Beyonder, who in the first brought Marvel’s heroes and villains together on a planet known as Battleworld against each other. The 2015 revival served as the culmination of writer Jonathan Hickman’s own multiverse saga, which already included elements referenced in Star Wars . Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022). at Hickman’s secret warsall of Marvel’s multiverse was destroyed, and the remnants survived on a planet ruled by the villain Doctor Doom.
avengers 5 Scheduled for May 1, 2026, and secret wars Scheduled for May 7, 2027.
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