Anthony and Joe Russo will be making a hopefully triumphant return to the MCU as the directors of Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars
. Although it seemed for a long while that the Marvel Multiverse Saga would be coming to an end without the helmers of one of the most profitable superhero movies of all-time, now they are back with their sights set on one thing – delivering an even bigger and better experience than they did with Avengers: Endgame.
Avengers: Endgame set a high bar for any superhero movie to follow, and for the MCU in particular, it has proven to be a bit of a poisoned chalice. Audience belief that the epic scale and scope of the culmination of ten years of storytelling would be carried over into the movies that followed led to a lot of disappointment. Movies like Black Widow, Thor: Love and Thunder, and The Marvels all struggled to hit the heights that were expected, but when people stopped to think about it, they were never meant to come close to the mighty Avengers movie.
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Now the Russos are back to not only deliver another Infinity War/Endgame combo, but hopefully surpass it – if that is indeed possible. During a recent interview with GameRant, the Russos addressed their belief that they can and will deliver a movie bigger than Avengers: Endgame with Secret Wars. Joe Russo said:
“Absolutely, we want to beat those younger versions of ourselves. We have to be, right? Because we have to outdo those movies in a way, or we at least have to take you on an equally engaging journey.”
Secret Wars Can Become a New Insurmountable Movie Event
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Back in 2012, when The Avengers hit cinemas to bring together the core group of superheroes that had been at the heart of the first four years of Marvel Studios’ ambitious shared universe project, no one knew how that small group would grow over the following decade. Avengers: Endgame culminated with the largest battle of superheroes ever put on screen as the Avengers assembled to take down Thanos in a devastating showdown.
The idea of anything ever being able to deliver more spectacle than Endgame seemed ridiculous for several years, but as more and more characters from the pages of Marvel Comics have been added to the universe, there are now more pieces on the board than ever before, and with Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars set to bring the Marvel Universe on a collision course with a franchise changing event, the limits of what that will look like are only as vast as the Russos’ imagination.
Avengers: Doomsday is slated for release on May 1, 2026, followed by Avengers: Secret Wars on May 7, 2027. The Russos are aware of the incredible challenge they have ahead of them, but they are set on making sure that whatever faults the MCU has had in recent years are all forgotten by the time the Multiverse Saga comes to an end. Whatever that turns out to look like, it is certain that the Marvel Cinematic Universe will never be the same again.
Source: GameRant
Avengers: Secret Wars
Release Date
May 7, 2027
Franchise(s)
Marvel Cinematic Universe
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