Avengers: The Kang Dynasty reportedly has its writer, and it’s a familiar Marvel face
Marvel hires a safe pair of hands for Avengers 5
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Marvelhas reportedly hired Michael Waldron to write the script forAvengers: The Kang Dynasty.
PerDeadline, Waldron – who was already believed to be writingAvengers: Secret Wars, akaThe Kang Dynasty’s sequel – has been drafted in to act as a creative through-line for the final twoMarvel Phase 6movies.
Waldron is no stranger to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), with the scribe having penned the scripts forLokiseason 1andDoctor Strange 2. Those projects helped to lay the foundations for the Marvel Multiverse Saga, which spans Phases 4, 5, and 6, so it isn’t a huge surprise to see Waldron brought on board to tie the Multiverse Saga’s multiple story threads together.
SomeMCUfans have already expressed disappointment that Eric Martin, who succeeded Waldron asLoki’s head writer, wasn’t hired instead.
Those individuals points to Martin’s superb writing onLokiseason 2, which recently finished airing onDisney Plus, as well as Waldron’s messy script forDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,as evidence that Martin should have been handed the keys to the Multiverse Saga. Waldron, though, is seen as a safe pair of hands by Marvel, and his work onDoctor Strange 2– while hampered by script rewrites and reshoots amid rumored studio interference – isn’t as bad as some viewers made out.
Waldron’s hiring comes less than two weeks afterAvengers: The Kang Dynastylost its original director. Daniel Destin Cretton, who helmedShang-Chi, wasset to directAvengers 5following his apparent hiringin July 2022. However, Cretton is no longer thought to be involved inThe Kang Dynasty, with the filmmaker moving onto other Marvel projects.
A not-so-Strange reunion?
Waldron’s installation as the main writer on the next twoAvengersmovies feels like a good fit, especially if Marvel wants to maintain a greater semblance of continuity between the films that’ll end its Multiverse Saga. The studio did likewise forAvengers: Infinity WarandAvengers: Endgame– two of thebest Marvel movies– when it hired screenwriting duo Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely to pen those film scripts, so it has previous form for employing the same writers on back-to-backAvengersflicks.
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What makes Waldron’s hiring for the fifth and sixthAvengersmovies interesting, though, is the fact that it lends weight to an online rumor concerning who’ll direct them.
According to MCU leaker DanielRPK (thanks toMarvelVersefor the catch), Sam Raimi is one of Marvel’s top choices to helmThe Kang DynastyandSecret Wars. DanielRPK’s claim has been backed up by another insider –MyTimeToShineHello– who, three months earlier, suggested Raimi was in the frame to directSecret Wars.
Why is this important? Because Raimi worked alongside Waldron onDoctor Strange 2. If Marvel thought the pair did a good job of establishing the core elements of the Marvel multiverse – and, given its near-$1 billion box office haul, it was a hit among audiences – on the Sorcerer Supreme’s second solo movie, it would make sense to re-team them on the two most biggest multiverse movies of the whole saga.
Of course, this isn’t confirmation that Raimi has been hired, but Marvel clearly liked what theEvil DeadandSpider-Mandirector did on his one and only MCU movie. If Waldron and Raimi can recapture that supposed magic inAvengers5 and 6, thereby getting audiences back into theaters and helping Marvel rake in billions of dollars – which it did onInfinity WarandEndgame– it’ll be a job well done, and will potentially see both movies added to ourbest superhero moviesguide. We wait for an official confirmation with bated breath.
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