Superhero films are in a bizarre place proper now, particularly at Marvel’s house of ideas. Whilst current movies battle to land with audiences just like the surefire hits of previous, the studio is able to look forward with the heightened curiosity in what’s on the horizon. However a part of that horizon contains navigating the murky waters across the subsequent Avengers film.
The Hollywood Reporter writes—as half of a bigger piece inspecting Marvel’s present trials and tribulations, from the lackluster box office response to The Marvels to Disney pinning all its hopes for 2024 on Deadpool & Wolverine—that because the studio has pulled again on its plans to quickly increase the MCU on screens massive and small, respiration room acquired during the Hollywood strikes and by pushing again a number of movies out of the speedy has seen Marvel solid a brand new eye over what was, at one time, the anchoring crown jewel of its cinematic future: the next Avengers movie, Kang Dynasty.
Based on THR, Kang Dynasty is, properly, not Kang Dynasty. The fifth Avengers movie—which lately lost its director, Shang-Chi’s Destin Daniel Cretton, and gained a new writer in Loki’s Michael Waldron—is allegedly being refocused, with a brand new identify to take away the titular massive dangerous Kang the Conqueror from the title, in addition to efforts to both radically minimalize the position of, or completely take away, Kang from the narrative within the wake of Jonathan Majors being discovered guilty of reckless assault in December 2023. Marvel—who dropped Majors after establishing Kang as a significant new menace for the MCU in each Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and the second season of Loki, just hours after his conviction—have been purportedly contemplating pivoting away from Kang after Quantumania’s comparatively comfortable field workplace, however now having formally severed ties with Majors altogether, the studio is seemingly going again to the drafting board in a significant approach.
It wouldn’t be the primary time we’ve heard about Marvel pondering the way forward for The Avengers, arguably probably the most profitable collection of its MCU franchise. Prior reviews investigating the precarious second Marvel’s output finds itself in these days alleged that some plans for the subsequent duology of Avengers films—with a second movie, titled Secret Wars after the legendary comics occasions of the identical identify—might characteristic methods to reunite the original team members and cast. Time will inform simply what plans Marvel has for its future, however for now, it has Deadpool & Wolverine and the arrival of the First Household in The Fantastic Four to deal with. For now, the Avengers, and no matter grand menace they face, can wait.
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