In over a year, Marvel says goodbye to the multiverse its multiverse focus with Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars. It’s the former that’s in the front of everyone’s minds right now, but it sounds like Secret Wars will be where things really pop off and wow audiences when it arrives next year.
In an interview with Fandango, Kevin Feige gave a few cryptic teases about this new duology. As he tells it, the two movies will be linked in a “very different way” than how Infinity War and Endgame operated. Before its official title, Endgame was originally just “Infinity War Part II,” and anyone expecting another “Part I/Part II” scenario should probably adjust their expectations.
In fact, for as many swings Marvel’s taking with Avengers: Doomsday, it sounds like Secret Wars will take some real big ones. Feige called it “as ambitious a project as we’ve ever embarked on.” Big words, given the MCU’s pedigree over the years, but not entirely unexpected. The Multiverse Saga’s been all over the place, but it’s been clear for years that Marvel’s wanted it to go out with a bang and use it as an opportunity to do things it couldn’t do before, either legally or creatively. After all, you don’t get a bunch of veteran actors from Marvel’s cinematic history back if you’re not going all out.
We’ll see if the studio succeeds when Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on December 18, followed by Avengers: Secret Wars on December 17, 2027.
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