Il topic verrà senz'altro nominato col titolo del primo film messo in produzione. Probabilmente nei prossimi giorni scopriremo di più in occasione del ComicCon 2022.

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AVENGERS 5: DISNEY RIVELA ERRONEAMENTE IL TITOLO DEL PROSSIMO FILM SUI VENDICATORI?

Disney ha registrato diversi trademark, tra cui Avengers: Secret Wars e Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. Potrebbero essere i titoli del prossimo Avengers?

Circa due anni fa, Avengers: Endgame e Spider-Man: Far From Home hanno portato a conclusione il lungo ciclo di storie iniziato nel lontano 2008 con il primo Iron Man, chiamato Saga dell’Infinito. Nonostante il ritiro o la morte dei personaggi che abbiamo imparato ad amare nel corso degli anni, l’Universo Cinematografico Marvel non dà segni di cedimento ed i Marvel Studios stanno già pianificando il futuro..

Oggi, 22 luglio 2022, la Disney ha registrato presso l’European Union Intellectual Property Office due nuovi trademark per diversi categorie, tra cui servizi e produzioni cinematografiche, che potrebbero anticipare il titolo dei prossimi film sugli Avengers!

Nello specifico, i due marchi registrati dalla compagnia sono Avengers: Secret Wars e Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, che si sposano decisamente bene con i rumor sulla direzione che sembra avere intrapreso l’MCU.

Al momento il proprietario di questi due trademark risulta nascosto, ma è legato ad un ufficio notarile di nome Mitscherlich, che ha già lavorato con Disney per la registrazione di altri trademark, come ad esempio Sneakerella.

Nello specifico, entrambi i titoli sono classificati per diversi settori merceologici. Potenzialmente, i Marvel Studios potrebbero aver deciso di dividere in due parti il quinto film sui vendicatori? Vi terremo aggiornati.

Curiosamente, la Disney ha registrato i titoli dei vari film annunciati durante il Comic-Con del 2019 proprio il giorno prima della conferenza.

Dal San Diego Comic Con si apprende che Avengers 5 sarà intitolato Avengers The Kang Dynasty, sarà il primo film di Avengers della fase 6 e uscirà nelle sale il 2 maggio 2025:

Dal sito The Hollywood Reporter:

‘Avengers: The Kang Dynasty’ to Be Directed by ‘Shang-Chi’ Filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton (Exclusive)

The fifth 'Avengers' movie is one of two that will close out Marvel's Phase 6 set of movies.

Since the climactic wrap up of 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, which closed a chapter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe known as The Infinity Saga and grossed almost $2.8 billion worldwide, Marvel Studios has focused on introducing new heroes and pushing ahead with sequels of some of its top characters.

But as revealed by Kevin Feige at Marvel’s Saturday presentation at San Diego Comic-Con, the Avengers are assembling once again, with two back-to-back movies set for 2025.

And while there are many other movies that will hit before that, the studio is already moving ahead creatively with at least one of the superteam tentpoles.

Destin Daniel Cretton, who helmed last year’s Marvel hit, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, has come aboard to direct Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively reveal.

Cretton is already well ensconced in the Marvel family. In addition to directing Shang-Chi, which grossed $432 million worldwide, he has an overall deal with Marvel that he signed in the wake of Shang-Chi’s success. As part of that, he is developing, with Andrew Guest, a writer-producer on comedies such as Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Community, a live-action series featuring Wonder Man that he will exec produce and possibly direct an episode or more. He also has a Shang-Chi sequel in the works.

It is unclear who is writing the Kang Dynasty Avengers movie or what heroes would even make up the team’s roster for a story that helps close out Phase 6. Feige laid out a timeline that sees The Kang Dynasty arrive May 2, 2025, with another Avengers movie, Avengers: Secret Wars, hitting Nov. 7, 2025.

Kang is being played by Jonathan Majors and was introduced in one capacity in Marvel series Loki. Kang, or a version of him, will be re-introduced in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which is due out Feb. 17, 2023. Quantumania is the movie that will launch Phase 5. In Loki, Majors played Kang with the moniker He Who Remains but the actor said at Comic-Con that there are multiple Kangs and the one from Ant-Man is different from the one in Loki.

Marvel, which will wrap up Phase 4 with this November’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, has been slowly hiring directors for its next batch of movies that will act as Phase 5 and Phase 6.

Marvel has confirmed to THR that Bassam Tariq (Mogul Mowgli) is directing Blade, scheduled for a Nov. 3, 2023 release; Julius Onah (Luce) is directing Captain America: New World Order, which will star Anthony Mackie as Captain America and open May 3, 2024; and Jake Schreier (Paper Towns) is directing Thunderbolts, which will close out Phase 5 with a release date of July 26, 2024.

Directing an Avengers movie is one of the most high-profile jobs. Joss Whedon helmed the first two Avengers movies — 2012’s The Avengers and 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron. And Joe and Anthony Russo filmed the epic two-parter Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

The Russos have long stated they would like to helm a Secret Wars film, with most presuming they meant adapting the key comic mini-series that ran in in the mid-1980s. Marvel rarely outright adapts its stories, usually weaving several influences into a movie, even sometimes breaking from the literary sources entirely. To complicate matters, there is also a second Secret Wars, a 2015 storyline from writer Jonathan Hickman that involved the multiverse. In any case, after the panel, Feige noted to Deadline that the Russos were not involved in Secret Wars.

Cretton, who rose through the dramatic ranks with movies such as Short Term 12 and Just Mercy, is repped by WME, Pangea Media and Goodman Genow.

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Marvel Updates @marvel_updat3s:

(1\2)Details on #AvengersTheKangDynasty
• Tiamut's head will become a HQ
• Ant-Man and the Fantastic 4 will team up
• Thor will meet Loki and together they will fight a variant of Kang

Via: GreatPhase


(2\2)Details on #AvengersTheKangDynasty
• Carol, Monica, Hercules and the Annihilators will fight the Squadron Supreme in space
•Doctor Strange, Clea and America will continue to travel in the Multiverse
•Sam Wilson, Wong and Bruce will remain fighting on earth



Quindi al momento si sa che saranno presenti nel film questi personaggi:
Ant Man che si unirà ai Fantastici 4;
Thor e Loki;
Carol, Monica e Ercole;
Sam Wilson, Wong, Bruce;
Doctor Strange, America e Clea.


Chissà a loro chi si aggiungerà!

Siamo contenti di vedere la bellissima Clea di Charlize Theron nel film, stavolta sarà presente nella pellicola e non solo nelle scene dei credits...

Dal sito DapsMagic:

A causa dello sciopero degli sceneggiatori, il film di Avengers: The Kang Dynasty è posticipato dal 2 maggio 2025 al 1 maggio 2026

Torneranno la Johannsson e Robert Downey Jr? Così vuole la Marvel che allo stato sta vivendo un periodo di crisi...

Da Variety:

Crisis at Marvel: Jonathan Majors Back-Up Plans, ‘The Marvels’ Reshoots, Reviving Original Avengers and More Issues Revealed

This past September, a group of Marvel creatives, including studio chief Kevin Feige, assembled in Palm Springs for the studio’s annual retreat. Most years, the vibe would have been confident — even cocky — given how the premier superhero brand, owned by Disney since 2009, has remade the entertainment business in its image.

But this occasion was angst-ridden — everyone at Marvel was reeling from a series of disappointments on-screen, a legal scandal involving one of its biggest stars and questions about the viability of the studio’s ambitious strategy to extend the brand beyond movies into streaming. The most pressing issue to be discussed at the retreat was what to do about Jonathan Majors, the actor who had been poised to carry the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe but instead is headed to a high-profile trial in New York later this month on domestic violence charges. The actor insists he is the victim, but the damage to his reputation and the chance he could lose the case has forced Marvel to reconsider its plans to center the next phase of its interlocking slate of sequels, spinoffs and series around Majors’ villainous character, Kang the Conqueror.

At the gathering in Palm Springs, executives discussed backup plans, including pivoting to another comic book adversary, like Dr. Doom. But making any shift would carry its own headaches: Majors was already a big presence in the MCU, including as the scene-stealing antagonist in February’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.” And he has been positioned as the franchise’s next big thing in this season of “Loki” — particularly in the finale, which airs on Nov. 9 and sets up Kang as the titular star of a fifth “Avengers” film in 2026.

“Marvel is truly fucked with the whole Kang angle,” says one top dealmaker who has seen the final “Loki” episode. “And they haven’t had an opportunity to rewrite until very recently [because of the WGA strike]. But I don’t see a path to how they move forward with him.”

Beyond the bad press for Majors, the brain trust at Marvel is also grappling with the November release of “The Marvels,” a sequel to 2019’s blockbuster “Captain Marvel” that has been plagued with lengthy reshoots and now appears likely to underwhelm at the box office.

This is all an unprecedented turn of fortune for a company that has enjoyed a nearly uninterrupted string of hits ever since it started independently producing its movies with 2008’s “Iron Man.” That wildly profitable run culminated in the $2.8 billion success of 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame,” a high-water mark for the studio that has earned nearly $30 billion over 32 films.

Replicating that kind of phenomenon is never easy. However, the source of Marvel’s current troubles can be traced back to 2020. That’s when the COVID pandemic ushered in a mandate to help boost Disney’s stock price with an endless torrent of interconnected Marvel content for the studio’s fledgling streaming platform, Disney+. According to the plan, there would never be a lapse in superhero fare, with either a film in theaters or a new television series streaming at any given moment.

But the ensuing tsunami of spandex proved to be too much of a good thing, and the demands of churning out so much programming taxed the Marvel apparatus. Moreover, the need to tease out an interwoven storyline over so many disparate shows, movies and platforms created a muddled narrative that baffled viewers.

“The Marvel machine was pumping out a lot of content. Did it get to the point where there was just too much, and they were burning people out on superheroes? It’s possible,” says Wall Street analyst Eric Handler, who covers Disney. “The more you do, the tougher it is to maintain quality. They tried experimenting with breaking in some new characters, like Shang-Chi and Eternals, with mixed results. With budgets as big as these, you need home runs.”

“The Marvels,” which opens in theaters on Nov. 10, will struggle to get the ball past the infield, at least by Marvel’s outsized standards. The movie, which cost $250 million and sees Brie Larson reprising her role as Captain Marvel, is tracking to open to $75 million-$80 million — far below the $185 million “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” took in domestically in its debut weekend last year.

Directed by Nia DaCosta, “The Marvels” unites Larson’s heroine with two superpowered allies, Teyonah Parris’ Monica Rambeau (introduced in the 2021 Disney+ series “WandaVision”) and Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan (first seen in the 2022 series “Ms. Marvel”). But instead of seamlessly building on the success of “Captain Marvel,” this move resulted in four weeks of reshoots to bring coherence to a tangled storyline.

Then eyebrows were raised again when DaCosta began working on another film while “The Marvels” was still in postproduction — the filmmaker moved to London earlier this year to begin prepping for her Tessa Thompson drama “Hedda.” (A representative for DaCosta declined to comment.)

“If you’re directing a $250 million movie, it’s kind of weird for the director to leave with a few months to go,” says a source familiar with the production.

“The Marvels” has seen its release date moved back twice, too, once to swap places with “Quantumania,” which was deemed further along, and again when its debut shifted from July to November to give the filmmakers more time to tinker. But that extra time didn’t necessarily help. In June, Marvel, which traditionally only solicits feedback from Disney employees and their friends and families, took the uncharacteristic step of holding a public test screening in Texas. The audience gave the film middling reviews.

But Marvel has never been in the business of being average. “Kevin’s real superpower, his genius, has always been in postproduction and getting his hands on movies and making sure that they finished strongly,” the source adds. “These days, he’s spread thin.” (Feige declined to comment for this story.)

Feige isn’t the only person showing signs of strain. Marvel’s entire VFX battalion, including staffers and vendors, is struggling to keep pace with a never-ending stream of productions. This past February, when the credits rolled at the world premiere of “Quantumania,” shock rippled through the Regency Village Theatre in Westwood over some shoddy CGI. “There were at least 10 scenes where the visual effects had been added at the last minute and were out of focus,” says one veteran power broker who was there. “It was insane. I’ve never seen something like that in my entire career. Everyone was talking about it. Even the kids of executives were talking about it.”

The schedule swap with “The Marvels” had left the “Ant-Man” sequel in a squeeze, pushing up its postproduction schedule by four-and-a-half months. Marvel films are known for coming down to the wire, given Feige’s ability “to foam the runway and land a plane that way,” says one executive familiar with how the company operates. But this level of unfinished was unprecedented and would be noted in scathing reviews when the tentpole with the $200 million budget opened 11 days after the premiere. Critics weren’t the only ones dismayed. Fed up with 14-hour days and no overtime, Marvel VFX workers voted unanimously to unionize in September, sparking an industrywide trend.

“The year 2023 was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” says former Marvel Studios VFX assistant coordinator Anna George, who appeared before the Congressional Labor Caucus on Oct. 19 to testify about the studio’s untenable deadlines and working conditions. “The pay and long hours at Marvel were the reason we had to start our unionization process there. The conditions were completely unsustainable.”

Disney’s top brass, including newly returned CEO Bob Iger, was said to be apoplectic about Marvel’s VFX troubles. One month after the “Quantumania” premiere debacle, the guillotine fell on Victoria Alonso, who oversaw the studio’s physical production, postproduction, VFX and animation. While the reason cited for her abrupt firing was her unauthorized role as an executive producer on the Oscar-
nominated film “Argentina, 1985,” insiders say Disney was incensed that quality control on its Marvel productions was plummeting, particularly on the ever-expanding TV front. The VFX logjam had been evident for some time, with some final effects for such Disney+ series as “WandaVision” and “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” inserted after their streaming debuts. That Alonso was busy promoting her art-house project while Rome burned certainly didn’t sit well with Disney’s leadership. (Alonso’s attorney says her client is unable to comment.)

But some internal sources suggest Alonso was a scapegoat and point to the “She-Hulk” VFX issues as a symptom of a deeper rot — namely a lack of oversight on script development. In the original arc of “She-Hulk,” a flashback of star Tatiana Maslany’s transformation into her Hulk character didn’t take place until Episode 8, the penultimate episode. But after Marvel’s brain trust watched footage, it realized the scene needed to happen in the pilot episode so that audiences could see more of the character’s backstory early. That meant that the VFX team was tasked with fixing the mess in postproduction.

“The so-called bad VFX we see was because of half-baked scripts,” says one person involved with “She-Hulk.” “That is not Victoria. That is Kevin. And even above Kevin. Those issues should be addressed in preproduction. The timeline is not allowing the Marvel executives to sit with the material.”

All the while, Marvel was bleeding money, with a single episode of “She-Hulk” costing some $25 million, dwarfing the budget of a final-season episode of HBO’s “Game of Thrones, ” but without a similar Zeitgeist bang. The August 2022 series premiere at the El Capitan Theatre foreshadowed what was to come six months later at the “Quantumania” bow: the “She-Hulk” special effects were out of focus in multiple scenes.

There are signs that the flood of product is leading people to tune out. “I’m not prepared to call it a permanent fall. But based on the numbers that go with Marvel podcasts, Marvel-based articles, friends who do Marvel-based video coverage, all of these numbers are significantly down,” says Joanna Robinson, co-author of the New York Times bestseller “MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios,” who is a writer and podcaster at The Ringer. “The quality is suffering. In 2019, at the peak, if you put ‘Marvel Studios’ in front of something, people were like, ‘Oh, that brand means quality.’ That association is no longer the case because there have been so many projects that felt half-baked and undercooked.”

As public criticism mounts, Feige is pulling the plug on scripts and projects that aren’t working. Case in point: the “Blade” reboot. With Mahershala Ali signed on for the eponymous role of a vampire, things looked promising for a 2023 release date. But the project has gone through at least five writers, two directors and one shutdown six weeks before production. One person familiar with the script permutations says the story at one point morphed into a narrative led by women and filled with life lessons. Blade was relegated to the fourth lead, a bizarre idea considering that the studio had two-time Oscar winner Ali on board.

Amid reports that Ali was ready to exit over script issues, Feige went back to the drawing board and hired Michael Green, the Oscar-nominated writer of “Logan,” to start anew. Speculation around town is that the studio is looking to make the film, now slated for 2025, on a budget of less than $100 million — a deviation from Marvel’s big-spending strategy.

With Iger publicly acknowledging the downside of a Marvel TV glut that “diluted focus and attention,” the keepers of the comic book empire are considering some dramatic moves. Sources say there have been talks to bring back the original gang for an “Avengers” movie. This would include reviving Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man and Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow, both of whom were killed off in “Endgame.” (That shouldn’t be a stumbling block — in comic books, beloved characters are often killed off, only to be resurrected thanks to the power of things like the multiverse.) But the studio hasn’t yet committed to the idea — if it were able to bring those actors back, it wouldn’t come cheap. Sources say Downey Jr.’s upfront salary for “Iron Man 3” was around $25 million.

Will that solve Marvel’s Majors problem? When the “Quantumania” actor was arrested in March, Disney executives insisted that they could afford to play a wait-and-see game, given that “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” wasn’t expected to begin shooting until early 2024. But then Majors was dropped in quick succession by his publicists and managers. (He remains a client at WME — the agency where he landed after CAA parted ways with him, pre-arrest, for his “brutal conduct” toward staff, says one source. CAA declined to comment.) In April, other alleged domestic violence victims of Majors began cooperating with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Then, ahead of a key hearing in October, media outlets including Variety obtained a court filing that referenced a police incident in London involving Majors that led his ex-girlfriend to seek medical attention. Making matters even stickier, the ex-girlfriend also worked on “Quantumania” as a movement coach, and the London incident took place while Majors was shooting Season 2 of “Loki.” On Oct. 25, a New York judge denied Majors’ motion to dismiss the case, which ensures that the actor will stand trial in late November. His legal team is attempting to keep some material in the case sealed.

A studio source notes that regardless of the actor’s legal issues, Marvel already had considered moving away from a Majors-led phase because of the box office performance of “Quantumania,” which will struggle to make a profit. “It gave people pause given that ‘Quantumania’ didn’t exactly land,” the source says. (On Oct. 27, Disney removed another Majors film, Searchlight’s “Magazine Dreams,” from the release calendar.)

Recasting Majors is also an option, as Feige did when he replaced Terrence Howard in “Iron Man 2” with Don Cheadle. In fact, Marvel isn’t afraid to change direction, even after making splashy announcements. “Armor Wars” was first unveiled as a series and is now being developed as a feature, while the studio’s push to adapt the comic book “Inhumans” into a feature film generated headlines but is now dormant. (The now-defunct Marvel Television mounted an “Inhumans” TV series in 2017 that ran for one season on ABC.)

Still, there was one bright spot in 2023: “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” which became Marvel’s biggest draw of the year with $845 million worldwide. The fact that it was directed by James Gunn, the guy now running rival DC Studios, was lost on no one.

“With Marvel, it used to be as close to a guarantee as you could get,” says Paul Dergarabedian, a box office analyst at Comscore. “So, going all in on the budgets made sense. ‘Guardians 3’ was a bit overlooked in how successful it was. But that had James Gunn and Chris Pratt, and I think star power is becoming more important. Then there was ‘Quantummania’ with $476 million. Anything under a half billion dollars is viewed as a disappointment. And these overreaching expectations are a result of so much success over the years.”

The key to reinvigorating Marvel may lie with the superhero arsenal that Disney acquired during its 2019 purchase of 21st Century Fox. That deal brought several blue-chip heroes, such as the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, back under the studio’s control. Already fans are geeking out about next year’s “Deadpool 3,” which unites Ryan Reynolds’ merc with a mouth with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, and a reboot of “Fantastic Four” slated for 2025. As a bonus, the Fox additions give Feige an opportunity to reimagine the “X-Men” franchise, the very property he cut his teeth on as a young executive at Lauren Shuler Donner’s production company. Now that the WGA strike is in the rearview mirror, Marvel has started talking to writers about bringing the X-Men into the MCU fold.

While Feige recalibrates, the rest of the industry is anxiously hoping that Marvel’s best days are not behind it.

“Writing the Marvel obituary would be ill-advised,” says Jason Squire, professor emeritus at USC School of Cinematic Arts and host of “The Movie Business Podcast.” “Kevin Feige is the Babe Ruth of movie executives, and Marvel has the most profitable track record in movie history. No question.”

Un bel po' di avvicendamenti in questo film:


Dal sito THR:

Marvel Drops Jonathan Majors After Assault, Harassment Verdict

The actor starred as Kang the Conqueror in 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania' and was poised to star in 'Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.'

Jonathan Majors is out at Marvel Studios in a stunning career blow for the once-rising actor.

On Dec. 18, a Manhattan jury found Majors guilty of reckless assault in the third degree and guilty of harassment following a two-week trial that stemmed from a March incident between the actor and his ex-partner, Grace Jabbari.

Before his March arrest, Majors was positioned as the key figure in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with the Disney-owned studio building its entire current story arc around Majors’ Kang the Conqueror. The time-traveling villain factored into this year’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania as well as both seasons of Loki, and he was going to lead Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, slated for May 1, 2026. The feature is still in the script phase and had not begun filming. No director is currently attached.

Marvel has two courses it could take now. It could recast the part, although it is not clear how many actors would be attracted to a role from which one actor was so publicly fired. The other course is to redevelop its plans and refocus on a brand new villain. While Marvel sources are mum, there is indication that the studio has already been doing just that. In November, Marvel hired Loki creator Michael Waldron to work on a new draft of what was once called Kang Dynasty, but is now being referred to as Avengers 5, according to sources.

The studio has had months to plan for such an eventuality, and it’s possible that Waldon was part of that course correction.

Marvel has recast in the past, but over creative and financial disputes, not for legal troubles. Terrence Howard starred in the first Iron Man as James Rhodes, while Edward Norton headlined The Incredible Hulk, both released in 2008. Howard declined to return for the 2010 Iron Man sequel, citing pay reasons, and Don Cheadle stepped into the role. Norton, meanwhile, clashed creatively with Marvel on Incredible Hulk, and Mark Ruffalo stepped into the role for The Avengers (2012). And more recently, the late William Hurt was replaced by Harrison Ford in the upcoming Captain America: New World Order as Thunderbolt Ross.

Majors was once considered one of the top rising actors in Hollywood. In addition to Quantumania, he starred in Creed III in 2023. He first rose to prominence with The Last Black Man in San Francisco, and went on to star in Devotion, Lovecraft Country, The Harder They Fall and Da 5 Bloods. The body-building drama Magazine Dreams bowed at Sundance in January 2023, though its fate remains in limbo as distributor Searchlight removed it from the calendar amid the actor’s legal troubles.

Marvel has two courses it could take now. It could recast the part, although it is not clear how many actors would be attracted to a role from which one actor was so publicly fired. The other course is to redevelop its plans and refocus on a brand new villain. While Marvel sources are mum, there is indication that the studio has already been doing just that. In November, Marvel hired Loki creator Michael Waldron to work on a new draft of what was once called Kang Dynasty, but is now being referred to as Avengers 5, according to sources.

The studio has had months to plan for such an eventuality, and it’s possible that Waldon was part of that course correction.

Marvel has recast in the past, but over creative and financial disputes, not for legal troubles. Terrence Howard starred in the first Iron Man as James Rhodes, while Edward Norton headlined The Incredible Hulk, both released in 2008. Howard declined to return for the 2010 Iron Man sequel, citing pay reasons, and Don Cheadle stepped into the role. Norton, meanwhile, clashed creatively with Marvel on Incredible Hulk, and Mark Ruffalo stepped into the role for The Avengers (2012). And more recently, the late William Hurt was replaced by Harrison Ford in the upcoming Captain America: New World Order as Thunderbolt Ross.

Majors was once considered one of the top rising actors in Hollywood. In addition to Quantumania, he starred in Creed III in 2023. He first rose to prominence with The Last Black Man in San Francisco, and went on to star in Devotion, Lovecraft Country, The Harder They Fall and Da 5 Bloods. The body-building drama Magazine Dreams bowed at Sundance in January 2023, though its fate remains in limbo as distributor Searchlight removed it from the calendar amid the actor’s legal troubles.



Dal sito DeadLine:

Destin Daniel Cretton Departs As Director On ‘Avengers: The Kang Dynasty’; Remains Aboard ‘Wonder Man’, ‘Shang-Chi 2’ & More In MCU

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline hears that filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton has decided to step away as director of Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Kang Dynasty to focus on his other Marvel projects. This is an amicable exit, I understand, as Cretton remains fully in the Marvel Studios family.

In fact, Cretton is in talks with Marvel Studios about directing future movies.

Note that Avengers: Kang Dynasty is far on the theatrical release schedule, dated to kick off summer on May 1, 2026. The movie will precede Avengers: Secret Wars on May 7, 2027 which will wrap up the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase 6 features.

Cretton is currently busy on the Marvel Studios/Disney+ series Wonder Man, which he co-created with Andrew Guest, who serves as showrunner. Cretton EPs the series and also directed the first two episodes. The series resumes shooting after Thanksgiving. Wonder Man will be under the new Marvel Spotlight series banner, which are shows that are standalone series and not part of the greater Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The filmmaker is also currently working on the sequel to the $432M-plus global grossing hit he directed, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. That movie is the highest grossing AAPI superhero movie ever and also owns the record opening over the 4-day Labor Day holiday weekend with $94.6M stateside.

In 2021, following the success of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Cretton signed an overall deal with Marvel Studios & Hulu’s Onyx Collective.

Cretton is an EP on the hit Disney+ series, American Born Chinese, which he also directed two episodes of. Cretton blasted off with the 2013 indie movie Short Term 12 which also propelled Brie Larson before she won the Best Actress Oscar for Room and went on to star in the $1.1 billion grossing Captain Marvel. In addition, Rami Malek starred in Short Term 12 as well before winning a Best Actor Oscar for Bohemian Rhapsody and a Best Actor Drama Series Emmy for Mr. Robot. Cretton also directed the Jamie Foxx-Michael B. Jordan-Larson legal drama, Just Mercy, about world-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson.

Cretton is repped by Pangea-Media, WME and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher.

Marvel Studios have delivered $30 billion at the global box office from 33 titles since 2008.



Dal sito DeadLine:

‘Loki’ Creator Michael Waldron To Write Marvel Studios’ ‘Avengers: The Kang Dynasty’

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Waldron has been tapped to write Marvel Studios‘ Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. Waldron had already been set to write Avengers: Secret Wars, the installment that would follow Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and will now write both Avengers sequels. Waldron has become one of Marvel’s most trusted creative minds having previously created and served as showrunner of season 1 of Loki as well as writing Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness and the move make sense to the studio to have him pen both films. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige will produce.

Deadline recently broke that Destin Daniel Cretton would not be directing the film in order to focus on his other Marvel projects like the TV series Wonder Man. Avengers: Kang Dynasty is far on the theatrical release schedule, dated to kick off summer on May 1, 2026, giving Waldron more then enough time to pen a script as the director search begins. The movie will precede Avengers: Secret Wars on May 7, 2027 which will wrap up the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase 6 features.

Waldron has been on quite a run after closing a multi-year megadeal with a combined overall with Marvel/20th Television for Waldron and his production company, Anomaly Pictures, across film and tv. On the TV side, they currently have a full slate under wraps.

Waldron launched a new feature film and TV production company, Anomaly Pictures, with his producing partner Adam Fasullo. Waldron and Fasullo first met and became fast friends developing and setting up the critically acclaimed series Heels at Starz.

Waldron is repped by represented by CAA, Grandview, SSM&L, and attorney Michael Schenkman.

Dal sito Movie Player:

Avengers 5: i fratelli Russo volevano dirigere il film, ma Marvel ha detto "No, grazie"

Il tentativo dei Russo di tornare alla guida del nuovo capitolo della saga degli Avengers non ha trovato riscontro in Marvel che preferirebbe un nome nuovo.

Il caos generato intorno ad Avengers 5 dopo il licenziamento di Jonathan Majors da parte di Marvel non si è ancora placato. L'incertezza intorno al progetto è grande e per il momento neppure Kevin Feige ha rivelato con chiarezza come si svilupperà la pellicola che riporterà in vita il team dei Vendicatori (vecchi o nuovi che siano). Inoltre, per adesso il progetto è ancora privo di regista anche se, secondo quanto anticipato dall'insider Jeff Snyder, i fratelli Russo, vecchie conoscenze dei Marvel Studios, si sarebbero offerti di dirigere il film. A quanto pare, però, lo studio li avrebbe liquidati.

Al momento, Anthony e Joe Russo sono attualmente nel mezzo della loro catastrofe dopo che è trapelata la notizia secondo cui l'ambizioso The Electric State, pellicola prodotta da Netflix di cui ancora non si vede la luce, sarebbe arrivato a costare 320 milioni di dollari per via dei ritardi. Sneider riferisce che in realtà potrebbero essere addirittura 370 milioni di dollari. Indipendentemente da ciò, The Electric State avrebbe potuto essere la chiave di volta per convincere i dirigenti della Marvel a collaborare nuovamente con la coppia di registi, ma così non è stato.

La scelta più ovvia? Non per Marvel

I Russo hanno riscosso un successo colossale dirigendo Avengers: Infinity War e Avengers: Endgame, pellicole più lucrose di casa Marvel e più amate dai fan. La decisione più ovvia sarebbe affidare a loro anche Avengers 5, ma secondo report recenti Marvel vorrebbe invece puntare su Shawn Levy, regista e produttore di Deadpool & Wolverine.

Secondo quanto anticipato, i prossimi due capitoli della saga degli Avengers sono stati descritti come un "gigantesco film di cinque ore con un intervallo di un anno." Avengers 5 verrà girato a inizio 2027 e arriverà nei cinema due anni dopo, nel 2017. Recenti rivelazioni anticipano il ritorno di Doctor Strange, Thor, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Shang-Chi, Black Panther e Ant-Man.

Dal sito Best Movie:

Avengers 5, pessime notizie per i fan in attesa del film Marvel

Il progetto che dovrebbe introdurre una nuova squadra di Vendicatori continua ad avere una produzione accidentata

Lo sviluppo di Avengers 5 continua a essere contrastato da una serie di problematiche, l’ultima delle quali sarebbe l’abbandono del progetto da parte dello sceneggiatore Michael Waldron. Si tratta dell’ennesima battuta d’arresto per il progetto, dopo aver perso il regista Destin Daniel-Cretton (Shang Chi e la leggenda dei dieci anelli), lo sceneggiatore originale Jeff Loveness (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania) e la star Jonathan Majors, che avrebbe dovuto interpretare l’antagonista principale, Kang il Conquistatore.

Non è stata fornita alcuna motivazionel ma Waldron stava lavorando alla storia da un po’ di tempo, quindi è ragionevole supporre che abbia completato una bozza dello script, o che fosse molto vicino a farlo. In questo caso, un altro sceneggiatore potrebbe essere chiamato a rivedere la sceneggiatura esistente, a meno che i Marvel Studios non decidano di sradicarne completamente la trama e ripartire da zero.

Annunciato per la prima volta nel 2022, il quinto film dei Vendicatori – inizialmente intitolato Avengers: The Kang Dynasty – dovrebbe entrare in produzione a marzo 2025 e arrivare poi nelle sale il 1° maggio 2026. Lo scorso maggio era stato riportato che Shawn Levy, regista di Deadpool e Wolverine, era in trattativa per dirigere il film: Marvel gli avrebbe affidato l’incarico a metà marzo, inizialmente rifiutato perchè impegnato negli ultimi ritocchi di D&W e con la produzione dell’ultima stagione di Stranger Things.

Nonostante il licenziamento di Jonathan Majors, il personaggio di Kang dovrebbe comunque apparire nel film, con un ruolo notevolmente ridimensionato. Marvel/Disney ha interrotto i rapporti con Majors quasi subito dopo la notizia della sua colpevolezza, il che sembrerebbe suggerire che stavano aspettando il verdetto prima di prendere una decisione. Tuttavia, alcuni addetti ai lavori ritengono che lo studio non sarebbe mai portato avanti un rapporto di lavoro con l’attore, indipendentemente dall’esito del processo. Non si è ancora parlato di recasting, ma gira voce che il film potrebbe potenzialmente includere più antagonisti.

Deadline ha recentemente menzionato alcuni dettagli intriganti sulla trama di Avengers 5: fonti vicine al progetto affermano che più di 60 personaggi del MCU potrebbero riprendere i loro ruoli, tra cui Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth e Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Simu Liu e Karen Gillan. A differenza dei primi quattro film, in cui c’era un gruppo di eroi centrale composto da Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Hemsworth e Ruffalo, in questo film molti dei personaggi avranno un ruolo paritario e la storia sarà decisamente più corale.

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Will Marvel announce the new Kang actor at Comic-Con?

Please take this with a massive grain of salt, but I was talking to a friend, who is way more knowledgeable on the Marvel side of things, and he had said he heard Marvel has indeed cast a new actor as Kang. If true, I do not know how you would announce that at Comic-Con, as Kang Dynasty is not the name of Avengers 5 anymore.

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I Fratelli Russo dirigeranno Avengers 5 e 6!

L'annuncio ufficiale avverrà verosimilmente al San Diego Comic-Con, ma l’Hollywood Reporter ha lo scoop: i Fratelli Russo sono in trattative finali con i Marvel Studios per dirigere i prossimi due film degli Avengers, ovvero il quinto e il sesto della saga.

Nel calendario attuale della Marvel, Avengers 5 uscirà il 1 maggio 2026, mentre Avengers 6 uscirà il 7 maggio 2027.

In un primo momento, il quinto film doveva intitolarsi Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, e sarebbe stato incentrato su Kang, il villain interpretato da Jonathan Majors poi caduto in disgrazia a causa di uno scandalo. Alla regia doveva esserci Destin Daniel Cretton, che tuttavia alcuni mesi fa ha lasciato il progetto.

Negli ultimi mesi, quindi, lo studio ha cambiato i piani e ha vagliato molti nomi e ha pensato a varie strategie per proseguire nella saga, e ha offerto la regia anche a Shawn Levy (Deadpool & Wolverine). Ma alla fine la decisione è stata quella di andare sul sicuro: i due Russo hanno infatti diretto alcuni dei maggiori successi del franchise, come Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War e Avengers: Endgame. Questi quattro film hanno incassato un totale di 6.7 miliardi di dollari in tutto il mondo. Con la decisione di affidare loro la regia dei prossimi Avengers, quindi, la Marvel sembra andare sul sicuro, anche perché i Russo da tempo parlano di eventuali piani per realizzare un film su Secret Wars, che non a caso dovrebbe essere ancora il titolo di Avengers 6.

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Vista l’inattività del forum di queste settimane, mi limito ad aggiornare a questo topic per condividere l’articolo più importante sul recente Comic Con di Dan Diego: Robert Downey Jr., come sapranno anche i sassi ormai, tornerà nel MCU sotto le vesti del mitico Dottor Destino.
Ancora non si sa se sarà una variante multiversale malvagia di Tony Stark, come accaduto nei fumetti, o, come spero io, l’incarnazione dell’originale Doom dei Fantastici 4, proveniente dal loro universo retro futuristico di cui il prossimo film del prossimo anno, intanto questo articolo riassume tutte le info su tutti i film rivelati in occasione dell’evento.

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RDJ sembra confermare che il suo Dottor Destino non sarà una variante di Tony Stark nel multiverso.

Ecco cosa dichiara.