Marvel defied all expectations at Saturday’s San Diego Comic-Con panel. Marvel confirmed that MCU Phase 5 will begin next year and also shared the names of all movies and series in Phase 5. We were also given a sneak peak at Phase 6, which will feature two films. AvengersFilms released simultaneously in the same calendar year.
After Phase 3, the Avengers now have a common name with Joe Russo and Anthony Russo. Marvel selected the brothers for the helm Avengers: Infinity WarAnd Avengers: EndgameThey were able to bring together so many heroes. Civil War. Fans hoped that the Russos would return in the future, which was not surprising. Avengers movies. They still might, but according to Kevin Feige, it won’t be for The Kang DynastyOder Secret Wars.
Phase 6 AvengersMovies will have new directors
Talking with Deadline this past weekend, Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige announced that the Russos aren’t coming back to the MCU to direct the fifth and sixth Avengers movies. He hopes to collaborate with them on future projects.
“They’re not connected to it,” Feige confirmed. “They’ve been very direct about that. We love them, they love us. We want to find something to do together, it’s not this.”
In case you weren’t keeping up over the last weekend, Marvel announced two new AvengersMovies on Saturday Avengers: The Kang DynastyOn May 2, 2025, the movie will be released in theaters. Six months later, Phase 6 is set to conclude. Secret Wars with AvengersNovember 7, 2025. The Russo brothers won’t direct either movie, as we now know.
What would a Russo brothers’ Secret WarsWhat does it look like?
The Russo might not come to us. Secret WarsThey have discussed the enormity of the undertaking. Here’s what they told DeadlineThe premiere of The Gray Man(which is the most expensive Netflix film of all time)
The series we adored growing-up was Secret Wars. It’s incredibly ambitious. It would be larger thanInfinity WarandEndgame. But it’s a massive undertaking. Those two movies were very hard to make. So trying to imagine making another two movies even bigger than those two? We’re going to have to sleep on that.
The Secret Wars that the Russos are referring to was a 12-issue limited series that ran from 1984 to 1985. It was Marvel’s first-ever company-wide crossover event. Virtually every major Marvel Comics character played a part in the event.
Over 30 years later, writer Jonathan HickmanAnd artist Esad Ribić reused the Secret WarsTitle for a more massive and devastating crossover event that resulted in the destruction of the multiverse. We have a sneaking suspicion, given that the Multiverse Saga is the most recent MCU story, that this will be the one Marvel Studios adapts.