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Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars
Directed by
Written byStephen McFeely
Based on
Produced byKevin Feige
Music byAlan Silvestri
Production
companies
Distributed byWalt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures
Release dates
May 1, 2026 (2026-05-01)
(Avengers: Doomsday)
May 7, 2027 (2027-05-07) (Avengers: Secret Wars)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars are upcoming American superhero films based on Marvel Comics featuring the Avengers, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. They are the sequels to The Avengers (2012), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019), and serve as the 40th and 41st films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), respectively. Both films will be directed by Anthony and Joe Russo from screenplays written by Stephen McFeely, and will feature an ensemble cast composed of previous MCU actors.

Development of the films began with Phase Four of the MCU in 2021, during which Marvel Studios introduced the concept of the multiverse, with certain films and television series fully exploring it as a setting or plot device. The films were officially announced a year later during the studio's Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2022. Destin Daniel Cretton was revealed to be directing The Kang Dynasty later that month, while Jeff Loveness was hired to write the film the following month. Both individuals departed the film in November 2023 while Marvel was discussing shifting the focus away from the intended antagonist Kang the Conqueror, amidst controversies concerning his actor, Jonathan Majors. Marvel fired Majors the following month, by which point the fifth Avengers film became untitled. Michael Waldron boarded to write Secret Wars in October 2022. Waldron subsequently replaced Loveness as Avengers 5's screenwriter the following November, before eventually departing the films entirely. The fifth film was reannounced as Avengers: Doomsday in July 2024, alongside the confirmation that Infinity War and Endgame directors Anthony and Joe Russo would return to helm both installments, that Stephen McFeely would return to script both films after having done so as a co-writer on various MCU films, and that veteran MCU actor Robert Downey Jr. would return to portray new antagonist Victor von Doom / Doctor Doom. The pair of films are designed to conclude the overarching storyline told across Phases Four, Five and Six, bookending "The Multiverse Saga" arc of the franchise's story.

Avengers: Doomsday is scheduled to be released on May 1, 2026, and Avengers: Secret Wars will be released on May 7, 2027. Both films will be part of Phase Six of the MCU.

Development

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Background

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Beginning with Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Marvel Studios fully introduced the concept of the multiverse following several allusions to its existence made throughout the preceding phase.[1][2] Projects such as the Disney+ television series Loki[3] and What If...? (2021–present),[4] as well as the films Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022),[5] had throughly incorporated the multiverse and various branching realities into their stories either as plot devices, or fully realized settings.[6][7] Furthermore, the multiverse was used to establish various characters and story elements unassociated with the franchise, directly in the universe, such as the return of characters from previous Spider-Man films produced by Sony Pictures in No Way Home, as well as the appearance of the alternate universe organization, the Illuminati in Multiverse of Madness, whose lineup comprised of various characters and actors associated with the MCU or other Marvel film properties.[8][9][10] The multiverse has been incorporated into subsequent MCU projects. The film The Marvels (2023) introduced the concept of incursions to the MCU's Sacred Timeline, scenarios involving the collision and simultaneous destruction of two or more universes, which first appeared in the 2015 "Secret Wars" event by Jonathan Hickman.[11] The second season of Loki (2023) incorporated different time periods and variants of established characters, while its finale depicted the titular character (Tom Hiddleston) becoming the "God of Stories", binding branch realities together into the Sacred Timeline as the new overseer of the multiverse.[12][1] Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), a sequel to the X-Men series film Deadpool 2 (2018), featured Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) and an alternate James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) reluctantly collaborating to fight against the Time Variance Authority (TVA) first featured in Loki, as an agent of theirs, Mr. Paradox (Matthew Macfadyen) attempted to accelerate the pruning of the X-Men film timeline after the events of the film Logan (2017) left Deadpool's universe without its anchor being, the primary iteration of Wolverine who died during the events of the aforementioned film.[13][14][15] The film also incorporated supporting appearances from several characters originating in Marvel Comics film properties not produced by Marvel Studios, such as John Allerdyce / Pyro from the original X-Men film trilogy reprised by Aaron Stanford;[16] Laura / X-23 from the film Logan reprised by Dafne Keen;[17] Johnny Storm / Human Torch from the Fantastic Four films (2005-07) reprised by Chris Evans;[18] Eric Brooks / Blade from the Blade film trilogy (1998-2004) reprised by Wesley Snipes;[19] Jennifer Garner as Elektra Natchios from the films Daredevil (2003) and Elektra (2005);[20] and Channing Tatum as Remy LeBeau / Gambit, a character he was intended to portray in a self-titled film that went unproduced following the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney in 2019.[21][22] Future projects include the third season of What If...?, the exploration of an alternate Peter Parker's origin story in the animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and its second season, and the adult-oriented animated series Marvel Zombies (2024), which shares continuity with the What If...? season 1 episode, "What If... Zombies?!" (2021).[23][24][25]

Announcement

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In May 2018 following the release of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), current Disney CEO Bob Iger said of Marvel's plans beyond the then-upcoming Avengers: Endgame (2019), "I'm guessing we will try our hand at what I'll call a new franchise beyond Avengers, but that doesn't n;ecessarily mean you won't see more Avengers down the road. We just haven't made any announcements about that." Iger added, "Given the popularity of the characters and given the popularity of the franchise, I don't think people should conclude there will never be another Avengers movie."[26] Shortly after Endgame's premiere, the Russo brothers, the directors of both Infinity War and Endgame, said they were not opposed to returning to the MCU in the future due to their positive relationship with Marvel Studios, but did not plan to do so at that time.[27] In January 2021, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige said another Avengers film would happen "at some point".[28]

In July 2022 during that year's San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios officially announced Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars as the concluding installments of Phase Six of the MCU, as well as "The Multiverse Saga" arc that began with Phase Four.[29] Feige confirmed following the studio's Hall H panel that the Russo brothers would not be returning for the upcoming Avengers films.[30] Later that month, it was announced that Avengers: The Kang Dynasty would be helmed by Destin Daniel Cretton, who had previously served as the writer and director of the Phase Four film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), and was by that point also slated to reprise his duties for that film's sequel, in addition to developing a television series centered around the character Wonder Man for Disney+.[31][32] In October 2022, Marvel Studios delayed multiple films on their production slate, including re-scheduling the release of Avengers: Secret Wars for May 1, 2026, nearly a full year after The Kang Dynasty.[33] The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars were delayed again to new dates on May 1, 2026 and May 7, 2027, respectively. The rescheduling has been attributed to progress on both films' screenplays being indefinitely halted due to the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, which also affected other projects in development at Marvel Studios.[34] In November 2023, Cretton departed The Kang Dynasty in what was said to be an "amicable exit", despite continuing to be involved in other MCU projects.[35]

Shortly after Kang the Conqueror actor Jonathan Majors was fired by Marvel Studios in light of his guilty verdict for third-degree assault and harrassment in December 2023,[36] Marvel parent company Disney confirmed in a March 2024 investors presentation that The Kang Dynasty was set to be retitled in an effort to divorce the film narratively from the overarching storyline featuring Kang throughout The Multiverse Saga, as well as Majors' involvement.[37] At the San Diego Comic-Con in July 2024, Marvel Studios announced Avengers: Doomsday as the new title for the fifth film, reconfirming its May 1, 2026 release date and revealing Joe and Anthony Russo would both return as the directors for Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars.[38] Robert Downey Jr., who portrayed Tony Stark / Iron Man across ten films in the MCU's "Infinity Saga", was also announced as joining the cast as Victor von Doom / Doctor Doom, who would replace Kang the Conqueror as the films' primary antagonist.[39]

Casting

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While promoting the Disney+ television series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022) in August 2022, actor Mark Ruffalo, who portrays Bruce Banner in various MCU media, spoke on the future of the series' eponymous protagonist Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk (Tatiana Maslany) and the character's prospects of being featured in other projects going forward, stating that "She's in now. There's not going to be another Avengers without her" according to what he had heard.[40] In June 2024, Benedict Cumberbatch revealed he was set to reprise his role as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange in both Avengers films.[41] The following month during Marvel Studios' Hall H presentation at San Diego Comic-Con, studio president and producer Kevin Feige announced that Florence Pugh, Wyatt Russell and David Harbour were set to reprise their respective roles as Yelena Belova, John Walker / U.S. Agent and Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian from the upcoming film Thunderbolts* (2025);[42] Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach were also confirmed during the panel to be reprising their roles as Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic, Sue Storm / Invisible Woman, Johnny Storm / Human Torch and Ben Grimm / Thing after debuting as those respective characters in the upcoming film The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025).[43]

Firing of Jonathan Majors and creative pivot

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Kang the Conqueror, a recurring villain and adversary to the Avengers and the Fantastic Four in the comics, who traverses space and time while having multiple alternate counterparts, was reported to be appearing as the main antagonist of the upcoming film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023), alongside the casting of Jonathan Majors in said role, which was officially confirmed by Marvel Studios in December 2020.[44][45] In October 2022, Jonathan Majors was confirmed to be reprising his role as Kang the Conqueror in Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, following his appearances as different variants of the character in the Phase Five film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and the second season of Loki (both 2023), while the actor was also confirmed to return in Avengers: Secret Wars in January 2023.[46] The character's debut in the MCU was teased by the appearance of his "variant", He Who Remains, in the final episode of Loki's first season, "For All Time. Always." (2021), in which he was played by Majors himself.[47] Loki star Tom Hiddleston described He Who Remains' role as the "architect" of the Time Varience Authority as the "one solitary light on in the window" amongst the otherwise abandoned Citadel at the End of Time itself where he resides throughout the series. Majors would describe his performance in the episode as providing him with the "largest canvas possible", while also teasing the character's death at the hands of Loki's own variant Sylvie Laufeydottir, as the point in the story where "Kang begins to rear his head and do his deeds". He would further cite the idea of a villain who "lives in so many iterations", as a reason for his interest in the role of Kang and his contrast with He Who Remains.[48] On transitioning from He Who Remains to his portrayal of Kang the Conqueror in Quantummania, Majors would describe the process of differentiating the characters, emphasizing the work required to reapply his performance to the scale of a film as opposed to a television series like Loki.[49] In addition to the appearance of Kang, the post-credits sequences in Quantummania teased the eventual appearances of the Council of Kangs, Kang variants Scarlet Centurion, Rama-Tut and Immortus (all portrayed by Majors), as well as the 19th century-based variant Victor Timely, setting up a full appearance in the second season of Loki (2023) where he temporarily joined the TVA to help fix a Temporal Loom and apprehend the branching of alternate timelines within the Multiverse.[50] Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige discussed the prominence of the character with regards to their overarching appearance throughout The Multiverse Saga of the MCU, stating that the team at Marvel had always considered Kang to be "an amazing follow up" to Thanos, the primary antagonist of The Infinity Saga (2008-2019) of the franchise. He also singled out Majors' performance as the character for being a significant reason regarding emphasizing Kang as a villain, remarking on how he tested better with audiences at "friends-and-family screenings" compared to prior MCU villains, and describing his work on the character as "one of the fun rolls of the dice [we] do at Marvel."[51]

In March 2023, Majors was arrested in New York City on multiple counts of physical harrassment and assault during his relationship with dancer Grace Jabbari.[52] By the time of Majors' arraignment, Marvel had not begun discussing alternate courses of action for the character, such as removing Majors from the franchise.[53] At this stage, the actor was still attached to reprise his role as Kang for both The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars, with Majors set to receive a salary of $20 million USD with back-compensation for his first Avengers film. Disney was also said to be closely monitoring the situation as it developed.[54] Writing for The Ringer, Joanna Robinson observed that Majors' various allegations had placed Marvel in a precarious position as a result of how much of the Multiverse Saga was built around the overarching prominence of both Kang the Conqueror and Majors as an actor, being argued as comparatively more integral to the forthcoming MCU storyline compared to Josh Brolin as Thanos during The Infinity Saga.[55] Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and The Kang Dynasty screenwriter Jeff Loveness was reported to have parted ways with Marvel Studios prior to the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike as conversations within the studio had begun taking place on new directions for the Avengers films.[56] The Kang Dynasty also had its release delayed alongside multiple other Marvel Studios films to May 1, 2026 in part due to the script not being completed before the writer's strike had begun.[57]

By November that year, Marvel Studios was reported to have begun internal discussions regarding The Multiverse Saga's creative direction in light of Majors' legal issues while awaiting the final verdict. It was at this stage that Marvel was considering completely pivoting away from Kang the Conqueror as the major antagonist in favor of another character, due to a mixture of Majors' charges and the lackluster audience and commercial reception towards the character's appearance in Quantummania.[58] The Marvel Comics character Doctor Doomthe primary antagonist to the Fantastic Four and a recurring adversary for the Avengers, who was already slated to have a significant role at least in Avengers: Secret Wars,[59] was now being debated as a potential substitute or replacement for Kang the Conqueror as Marvel began deliberating over minimizing the latter's presence in The Multiverse Saga.[60] Variety writer Tatiana Siegel felt that another route to pursue would be for Marvel to recast Majors' role, feeling as if the character's then-upcoming supporting appearance in the second season of Loki would cement a larger overall role for Kang the Conqueror and his alternate variants in a way that would make a creative pivot increasingly difficult.[61] The final episode of Loki's second season, "Glorious Purpose", depicts the titular character altering history by taking Kang variant Victor Timely's place in destroying the Temporal Loom and rearranging the multiverse to oversee its various branching timelines, while the Time Variance Authority (TVA) restructured itself with an objective to hunt down remaining variants of Kang the Conqueror.[62][63] The episode became a point of interest for commentators who observed that its de-emphasis on Kang's overall prominence throughout the series and its ending implications for his alternate selves ended up providing several narrative routes for Marvel to pursue if the character was to be pivoted away from, such as having the TVA pursue and prune the remaining Kang variants off-screen as a way of retiring them.[64][65] Around mid-November, it was reported that Marvel had relieved Jeff Loveness of his screenwriting duties on The Kang Dynasty due to his close involvement with developing the character dating back to Quantummania, in an attempt to creatively shift focus away from the Kang story arc.[66][67] By the time Loveness was let go and The Kang Dynasty's original director Destin Daniel Cretton left due to scheduling difficulties, the former was said to have completed a draft of the script.[68] Jeff Sneider separately reported that Marvel were now seeking a new writer who could potentially redevelop The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars as a single two-part narrative that concluded The Multiverse Saga, similar to the original plan for Avengers: Infinity War (2018),[69] believing that the possibility was open for the studio to drop the separation between the fifth and sixth Avengers films and instead market them as two installments of a Secret Wars adaptation, thus generating fan interest and evading any potential hurdles in addressing Jonathan Majors' prior involvement.[70][71]

By mid-November, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely—who co-scripted the MCU's Captain America trilogy starring Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America in addition to both Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, had been involved as "unofficial advisors" towards Marvel Studios as they were preparing to shift the creative direction of the upcoming Avengers films.[72] Michael Waldron, who had previously been hired to write the screenplay for Avengers: Secret Wars, was brought in to rewrite The Kang Dynasty's script by the end of the month, replacing Loveness.[73] In December, Majors was found guilty of third-degree reckless assault and harassment towards Grace Jabbari, leading Disney and Marvel Studios to drop the actor from any future involvement in the MCU franchise, leaving the future of their storyline with Kang the Conqueror uncertain, as it remained unknown as to whether the studio would opt to recast the role or pivot towards another villain.[74] Jeff Sneider would follow up his prior report, insinuating that per his suggestion, Marvel had reconfigured the upcoming Avengers films into a dual-part Secret Wars story,[75] and that they were seeking a director to replace Destin Daniel Cretton who has otherwise never helmed an MCU film.[76] In February 2024, Variety writers Aaron Couch and Borys Kit said Marvel were in the middle of "cleaning up the creative mess" left in the wake of both the critical and commercial reception of Quantummania and the firing of Jonathan Majors, additionally confirming that the fifth Avengers film was set to be retitled in order to remove any reference to Kang or the "Kang Dynasty" comics storyline.[77]

Writing

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In September 2022, Jeff Loveness was hired to write Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, marking his second collaboration with Marvel Studios following the Phase Five film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023).[78] While making a guest appearance at Grand Canyon University the following week, he announced that he would begin to write the screenplay in "two weeks" from then.[79] Loveness described the challenges of writing an antagonist such as Kang the Conqueror who traverses space and time due to the risks of becoming derivative, attributed to the emphasis on time travel in the plot of Avengers: Endgame (2019). He stated in an interview that, "you almost need to broaden him out a little bit too, maybe broaden out into the multiverse a little more, the dimensionality of the character, the limitless freedom he has while also being completely uprooted from his time and himself." Loveness also expressed his desire to extrapolate as much from the pre-established material in the comic books, but exclaimed that the intent was to put a "completely new spin" on the story, stressing that "If you just do a 100% comic book adaptation people know all the tricks and what to expect. You have to use that as a foundation and then throw a curveball".[80] Loveness also teased the possibility of further variants of Kang appearing in The Kang Dynasty, specifically denoting his own research into characters such as Rama-Tut and Scarlet Centurion. Loveness cited the nature of his alternate counterparts as the "joy" of developing a character such as Kang the Conqueror, describing him as "this infinite snake eating infinite tails, a man literally at war against himself."[81] By November 2023, Loveness was reported to have been let go by Marvel Studios as the film's writer just as the film's original director Destin Daniel Cretton similarly departed the project.[82]

In early October 2022, Michael Waldron was announced as the writer for Avengers: Secret Wars. Preceding his hiring, he was considered a frontrunner among writers being examined by Marvel, largely due to the trust between him and the studio coming off of his time served as head writer for the first season of the Disney+ television series Loki (2021–23), and writing the film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).[83] Waldron subsequently replaced Jeff Loveness as The Kang Dynasty's writer in November 2023 following his departure earlier in the month.[84] Waldron departed both films by early July 2024.[85]

Following the announcement of Avengers: Doomsday in July 2024, it was revealed via a press release from the Russo brothers' production company AGBO that Stephen McFeely would now be writing both films, after previously co-scripting Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and every prior MCU film directed by the Russo brothers from Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) to Avengers: Endgame (2019) alongside Christopher Markus.[86]

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