Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars 'A New Beginning' for the MCU, Russo Brothers Say

The aboriginal of the MCU is starting to instrumentality shape. Directors Anthony and Joe Russo person teased however Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars volition disagree from their past 2 projects successful the franchise, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

During an interrogation with Brazilian outlet Omelete, the directing brothers revealed that they spot Avengers 5 and 6 arsenic a “new beginning” that volition laic the instauration for immoderate comes adjacent successful Phase 7 of the MCU.

"The top happening that ever happened is we got to get immersed successful a 20 movie arc and spot an ending to that arc," Joe Russo said. "What's compelling astir these 2 caller Avengers movies is they're a beginning. It's a caller beginning. We told an ending communicative [with Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame] and present we're going to archer a opening story. Who knows wherever we’ll spell from there?"

The brace besides opened up astir however they ended up backmost successful the Marvel satellite tackling different Avengers story. “We didn’t cognize what our roadworthy guardant was successful the MCU aft we finished Endgame,” Anthony Russo explained.

“What happened was, a originative thought conscionable came to america and that ended up feeling similar the close idea. It motivated america to bash it again. We consciousness similar we person thing fresh, we consciousness similar we person a communicative that’s important and needs to beryllium told. We person an astonishing radical of collaborators again, immoderate aged and immoderate new. We’re precise excited."

He besides noted that Doomsday is simply a “difficult” movie due to the fact that of the “expectations connected it” to assistance bring theatergoing backmost to its pre-pandemic glory. That said, the Russos besides revealed it was Marvel shaper Kevin Feige’s thought to bring Robert Downey Jr. backmost for Doomsday.

“That speech was had a portion ago, and Robert tried to speech america into doing it and we said no,” Joe said. “We conscionable didn’t person a story, we didn’t person a mode in, truthful we were resistant for a while. And past 1 day, [Endgame writer] Steve McFeely called america and said, ‘I person an idea.’ ”

“The lone happening I’ll accidental astir the movie is this: we emotion villains who deliberation they’re the heroes of their ain stories,” Joe Russo closed retired the interview. “That’s erstwhile they go three-dimensional and they go much interesting. When you person an histrion similar Robert Downey, you person to make a three-dimensional, good shaped quality for the audience. That’s wherever a batch of our absorption is going.”

Avengers: Doomsday is presently acceptable to get successful theaters May 1, 2026 and Secret Wars arrives astir a twelvemonth aboriginal successful May 2027, truthful unfortunately, we’ve got a batch of waiting to bash earlier we tin spot what the Russo brothers are cooking up.

Late past year, Marvel Studios brag Kevin Feige teased the instauration of X-Men characters successful the "next few" MCU movies.

Feige told an assemblage astatine the Disney APAC Content Showcase successful Singapore that fans would spot “some X-Men players that you mightiness recognize” successful the adjacent fewer MCU movies, but helium stopped abbreviated of saying which characters oregon what movies.

On bringing the X-Men into the MCU, Feige added: “I deliberation you volition spot that continues successful our adjacent fewer movies with immoderate X-Men players that you mightiness recognize.

“Right aft that, the full communicative of Secret Wars truly leads america into a caller property of mutants and of the X-Men. Again, [it’s] 1 of those dreams travel true. We yet person the X-Men back.”

Feige has besides said the X-Men volition beryllium an important portion of the MCU’s aboriginal pursuing Secret Wars. "When we were preparing for Avengers: Endgame years ago, it was a question of getting to the expansive finale of our narrative, and past we had to commencement each implicit again aft that,” Feige said. “This time, connected the roadworthy to Secret Wars, we already cognize precise good what the communicative is going to beryllium until past and afterwards. The X-Men are an important portion of that future.”

It sounds similar Phase 7 of the MCU volition beryllium dominated by the X-Men, then, but successful the abbreviated term, Storm appeared successful What If...? Season 3, marking the character’s archetypal quality successful the wider MCU.

In October, Marvel Studios added 3 untitled movie projects to its 2028 merchandise schedule: February 18, 2028; May 5, 2028; and November 10, 2028. It seems progressively apt 1 of these movies is X-Men.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.