We have two Avengers movies headed our way this year and next, and just like the last two Avengers assemblies, these films promise to shake up the course of the MCU.
When Avengers: Infinity War was released in 2018, the scope and scale of the film, as well as the story’s repercussions, were unlike anything we’d seen in the Marvel universe.
But we hadn’t seen anything yet. When its follow up, Avengers: Endgame, was released in 2019, it was even bigger and more consequential. And that’s what Marvel boss Kevin Feige is asking fans to keep in mind as we head toward the release of Avengers: Doomsday.
While the introduction of Doctor Doom, and the return of Robert Downey Jr. in the role, is the current focus, Feige teased at CinemaCon that the second film, Avengers: Secret Wars is the most ambitious the studio has taken on.
He also made it clear that we shouldn’t think of the film as a simple wrap up to Doomsday, telling Fandango, “I think people are expecting a similar connection, and while one certainly does lead into the other, it’s in a very different way, and I will say that ‘Secret Wars’ is as ambitious a project as we’ve ever embarked on.”
While Feige is staying tight lipped about the whole two-film storyline, he did tell EW: “We’re not talking too much about story, but I think people know that the story of Doomsday is inspired by a very famous comic run in which universes are colliding, and Earths encounter one another, and different timelines encounter one another. And in movie speak, what that allows us to do is get different casts from different franchises.”
This is the most exciting part about these movies. Seeing the Avengers team up with the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and so many solo superheroes we’ve been waiting to get back to is going to be so awesome. And it sounds like the story is going to be even bigger and better than we had bargained for.
Avengers: Doomsday opens in theaters on December 18, 2026; Avengers: Secret Wars will follow on December 17, 2027.
