Russos Not Attached says Kevin Feige – Deadline

It’s no secret how much Joe and Anthony Russo would love to earn Avengers: Secret Wars.

However, with today’s announcement at Comic-Con that this 2025 Marvel Cinematic Universe will end with Avengers: Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars, The comic studio’s Marvel Studios president said the brothers aren’t set on taking the lead in either film. The duo are responsible for delivering two of the five highest-grossing films of all time in 2018 Avengers: Infinity War and 2019 Avengers: Endgame which combined grossed $4.8 billion.

“They’re not connected to it,” Feige told us of the Russos and the Phase avengers movies. “They were very direct about it. We love them, they love us. We want to find something to do together, that’s not it.

Outside of Feige, we’ve heard there haven’t been any discussions between the Russos and Marvel about the new avengers movies. We’re also hearing that the Russos can’t commit to the new avengers films because they have three feature film projects lined up with AGBO. Their gray man hit Netflix yesterday.

Kevin Feige Reveals The Russo Brothers Won’t Direct Future ‘Avengers’ Movies #SDCC pic.twitter.com/ivfoQdAlCk

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) July 24, 2022

Back to the world premiere for gray man Two weeks ago, co-director Joe Russo told Deadline, “Our love for Marvel is based on the books we read as kids, the books we fell in love with. The only series we have loved growing up was Secret Wars. It’s incredibly ambitious. It would be bigger than Infinity War and End of Game. But it is a colossal undertaking. These two films were very difficult to make. So, trying to imagine making two more movies even bigger than those two? We’ll have to sleep on this.

Secret Wars was a 12-issue limited series published from May 1984 to April 1985. However, there is also a 2015 version written by Jonathan Hickman and drawn by Esad Ribić, the latter dealing with the destruction of the Marvel Universe and other universes alternate with the respective universes of each universe. Earth combines in Battleworld, a planet that features aspects of different universes.

Deadline also asked Feige to describe how Phases 4, 5, and 6 differ thematically.

“We don’t like to tackle the thematics of each phase until we’ve published everything. Because the truth is that all the stories are both interconnected and, hopefully, distinct. Only now do we see what the themes of one, two and three are. We have various ideas as we go through it. But the details we like to be discovered on a project-by-project basis,” Feige added.

Kevin Feige on the difference between #Wonder Phase 4, 5 and 6 thematically #SDCC 2022 pic.twitter.com/RwrI0IqlgE

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) July 24, 2022