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  • Marvel Reportedly Exploring Extending the Multiverse Saga Timeline

    Marvel Reportedly Exploring Extending the Multiverse Saga Timeline

    Once upon a time, Marvel Studios ambitiously planned to release two Avengers films in one year. As part of its big Hall H presentation at SDCC ’22, Marvel revealed that Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars were set to hit theaters on May 6, 2025 and November 7, 2025, respectively. It’s 2026 and neither of those films have hit theaters yet and their release dates are now a full year apart, however, a new report claims that the studio may once again be considering double dipping on Avengers films, this time in 2027.

    According to the Hot Mic’s John Rocha, the Russo brothers have put together a Multiverse Saga finale so grandiose that it may require the studio to split it into two parts.

    On the January 23rd edition on the show, Rocha reported that he had been told Marvel was “considering splitting Secret Wars into two parts.” He also shared that his source had “heard that Doomsday could run for three hours and that it’s huge.“

    Of course, this isn’t the first time the possibility of a second Avengers film hitting theaters in 2027 has come up, though the studio abandoned its prime July 23, 2027 date late last year. That doesn’t mean a third Avengers film couldn’t slide into one of the studio’s four 2028 slots, only that the next saga couldn’t kick off until it did.

    Source: The Hot Mic

  • New Details Indicate ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Will Be the Most Action-Intensive Project in Marvel History

    New Details Indicate ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Will Be the Most Action-Intensive Project in Marvel History

    After accumulating over one billions views, it seems as though the four short teasers for Avengers: Doomsday have generated some true excitement for the film, which will hit theaters this December.   Despite some hand-wringing over Steve Rogers’ “central role” in the film and outrage over concerns that the film will just be a “fan service” mash-up, it’s clear that the project already has the attention of the masses. And some new details might begin to move the needle even more.

    With the Russo brothers back in the fold.to direct Avengers: Doomsday, big action seemed a certainty. After all, the pair directed Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which may remain the MCU’s exemplar for action excellence, as well as Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, each of which feature memorable large-scale battles. It sounds as though the Russos set about the task of outdoing all of those projects when they decided to direct Avengers: Doomsday.

    According to YouTuber John Campea, who has often been a reliable source in the past, the brothers Russo were able to “eclipse everything else Marvel’s ever done” in terms of the “sheer volume of action” in Avengers: Doomsday.

    I have something I haven’t told you yet. What this person indicated to me was the sheer volume of action is going to eclipse everything else Marvel’s ever done.

    -John Campea
    According to Campea, the film “shoots you like a cannon out of the gate” and the “massive action…doesn’t let up.”

    People are going to lose their minds. This movie starts with its foot through the floor and shoots you like a cannon out of the gate. There’s no slow start—it’s massive action right from the beginning, the scale is insane, and it doesn’t let up

    -John Campea

    Given that the film is expected to deal with universe-ending incursions, a potential Avengers vs. X-Men battle and introduce and establish Victor Von Doom as a Multiversal threat, there seems to be more than enough opportunity for the film to be wall-to-wall action. Of course, with extensive additional photography set to take place early this year, it might be a bit too premature to develop any opinion at all about the film given Marvel’s propensity to overhaul projects in post-production.

  • ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Directors Confirm One of the Film’s Central Characters

    ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Directors Confirm One of the Film’s Central Characters

    Steve Rogers will return in Avengers: Doomsday…and despite being absent for the entirety of the Multiverse Saga, he will indeed be a key player.

    In January 2021, Deadline reported that Captain America and Avengers franchise star Chris Evans had made a deal to return as Rogers in an unnamed project with an option to return for a second theatrical project. While it seems as though the failed Nomad project was the former, it is now clear that Avengers: Doomsday is the latter, despite Evans‘ denials that he’d be stepping back into the role anytime soon.

    I’ll never say never, just because it was such a wonderful experience. But I’m also very precious with it. It’s something that I am very proud of. And like I said, sometimes I can’t believe it even happened. And I wouldn’t want the black eye if it felt like a cash grab or if it didn’t live up to expectations or if it just felt like it wasn’t connected to that original thing. So, no time soon.

    -Chris Evans on returning as Steve Rogers, January 2023

    Though Evans was kept out of the studio’s 5-hour cast reveal, insiders were onto Marvel’s ploy, with Daniel Richtman reporting that he would be returning not as Captain America but rather as Nomad, toting Mjolnir and sporting a new outfit. However, it was unclear just how large of a role he might play.

    Now, following the official confirmation of his return via one of four teasers for the 2026 film, Anthony and Joe Russo have revealed Evans‘ Rogers will have a “central role” in Avengers: Doomsday.

    “His central role to the Avengers and the larger narrative of what the MCU has been something that’s very personal to us. We can’t see this narrative without his central role in it,” the directing duo told Empire.

    While fans are already generating pre-emptive hate over Evans‘ return to the MCU, it’s probably worth noting and at least considering that “central” and “large” are different words. Rogers could easily have central role in Avengers: Doomsday without detracting from the screentime of the heroes who have been central to the Multiverse Saga (not that there really are many). Clearly, Rogers’ actions in Avengers: Endgame will be retconned into having some part to play in the Incursions threatening the Multiverse and despite notions to the contrary, there’s no logical reason why they would not.

    Source: Empire

  • Longtime Marvel Creator Claims Another Original ‘X-Men’ Star Will Appear in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

    Longtime Marvel Creator Claims Another Original ‘X-Men’ Star Will Appear in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

    With nearly a year to go before it hits theaters, Marvel Studios has already begun marketing Avengers: Doomsday and building a good deal of buzz around the film. A series of short teasers have revealed the return of Chris Evans, a more serious Thor, James Marsden sporting a comic accurate look and a meeting between Earth 616’s Wakandans and Earth-828’s Ben Grimm.

    Reactions to the teasers have been largely positive and though they haven’t really provided any real indication of what the film’s story might be, the promise of more character interactions like M’Baku and Thing have fans excited. With additional photography for the project set to get underway this spring, rumors of multiple stars who were not available to film during principal photography, which wrapped in September, have begun to spring up. And according to one of Marvel Comics legendary creators, another of the stars of Fox’s original X-Men trilogy will be one of them.

    In an interview shared by Power of X-Men, Chris Claremont claimed that Famke Janssen will have a role in Avengers: Doomsday.

    This isn’t the first time that Claremont has claimed to know that Janssen would return as Jean Grey in Avengers: Doomsday nor the first time she’s been rumored to be joining the cast, though the actress has repeatedly denied it and stated she’s not interested in revisiting the role. Of course, Janssen would hardly be the first star to deny being in a Marvel Studios project despite being in it and there are plenty of other actors and actresses who are believed to be in the film whose roles have yet to be confirmed. With the X-Men expected to play a large role in Avengers: Doomsday, it does seem as though there would be room for several more characters from the Fox films to appear.

  • Wow! ‘Loki’ Co-Star Reportedly Set for ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Return

    Wow! ‘Loki’ Co-Star Reportedly Set for ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Return

    Following the conclusion of the Infinity Saga, it was hard to imagine how much more Marvel Studios was going to squeeze out of Tom Hiddleston‘s Loki. Fortunately, Michael Waldron, Eric Martin, Kate Herron, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead found a way to breathe new life into the God of Mischief, putting together two seasons of an incredible journey into mystery that allowed Hiddleston to fulfill Loki’s glorious purpose.

    As brilliant as Hiddleston was in Loki, the chemistry between him and his co-stars, specifically Owen Wilson and Sophia Di Martino, helped make both seasons work so well. With the L1130 Variant of Loki now set up as the MCU’s keeper of the timeline–the God of Stories, it was no surprise that Hiddleston was among those announced as part of the main cast of Avengers: Doomsday last year. It’s not yet entirely clear exactly what role Loki will play in attempting to stop Doctor Doom from unleashing a “cascading crisis across the entire multiverse,” but according to a new report, he’ll have his best buddy at his side.

    My contribution has been contributed. It is monumental. The centre of the story is absolutely brilliant, and was so surprising when I read it. It just has never been done before.

    -Tom Hiddleston
    According to industry insider Daniel Richtman, Owen Wilson will return in Avengers: Doomsday as TVA timecop Mobius.

    We have different styles. You’re a man of action, which is fine. I take a more slow, deliberate, cerebral approach because I see everything. I notice everything.

    -Mobius

    When last seen in the Loki series finale, Mobius had left the TVA to enjoy the freedom to live his own life free from the machinations of He Who Remains. However, it was made pretty clear that there was room more Mobius and, with the Multiverse at stake, it sounds like it’s time for him to get off the couch.

  • ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’ Rumored to Feature a Classic Marvel Comics’ Odd Couple in the Lead

    ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’ Rumored to Feature a Classic Marvel Comics’ Odd Couple in the Lead

    Despite being two of Marvel’s most popular icons, Spider-Man and Wolverine spent the first few decades of their history largely avoiding each other. The pair finally met in 1982’s Marvel Team-Up #117 and then in 2005, Brian Michael Bendis struck gold when he added both characters to the roster of his New Avengers.

    Living together in Avengers Tower, the two quickly developed into the publishing house’s premier “odd couple” with Spider-Man as the talkative, moral optimist and Wolverine as the silent, lethal cynic. Eventually, Wolverine admitted that he respects Peter Parker more than almost anyone because of his unwavering moral compass, telling his fellow heroes that he believed Parker to be “the best of us.” Now it looks as though Marvel Studios is looking to tap into that magic in Avengers: Secret Wars.

    Following up on a report by industry insider Daniel Richtman that claimed Hugh Jackman and Tobey Maguire were set to play major roles alongside Tom Holland in Avengers: Secret Wars, social media scooper My Time To Shine Hello has now claimed that Jackman and Maguire are set up to be the leads of the final film of the Multiverse Saga.

    According to MTTSH, “The end of Doomsday set up Tobey [Maguire] and Hugh Jackman as the leads of Secret Wars.” Prior reports have indicated that the two heroes will square off in the final act of Avengers: Doomsday before making nice and FINALLY teaming up on the big screen. With reports that Marvel Studios is prepping a new, Hugh Jackman-less Wolverine project, it sounds as though the studio is willimg to give Jackman and Maguire‘s heroes a fitting send off as a thank you for starting the ball rolling on the modern CBM genre in 2000 and 2002, respectively.

  • Rumors Suggest the Russos Brothers May Have Cleverly Sown Chaos into the Mix in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

    Rumors Suggest the Russos Brothers May Have Cleverly Sown Chaos into the Mix in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

    Slowly but surely, fans are starting to believe that Avengers: Doomsday might not be so bad after all. Teaser trailers featuring Steve Rogers, Thor, Magneto, Charles Xavier and Cyclops have all generated significant buzz and it sounds as though the studio plans on keeping the momentum going with additional teasers yet to come.

    The marketing for the film has cleverly appealed to multiple different demographics but there’s one large sect of the fandom that hasn’t had reason to be excited just yet. However, a new rumor may be about to change that and get the Wandas back in the game.

    John “The Outlaw” Rocha shared an update on an old rumor about Avengers: Doomsday featuring multiple Doctors Doom. According to Rocha’s source, “Doom has a female sidekick [who] also has a mask. This person thinks it is a female Doom. You’ll get a male and female Doom team.”

    A “female Doom” is interesting enough on its own but it’s also not something that would seem to serve the story well when there are so many other options available to the Russo brothers that would.

    As Rocha’s news makes its way around the usual spots, social media scoopers and leakers and bullshitters have begun chiming in about the true identity of Doom’s masked “sidekick.” While some have suggested it’ll be Lucia Von Bardas–Latveria’s Prime Minister in the comics–her inclusion wouldn’t really move the needle for fans. However, another rumor about who is behind the mask that seems to be gaining traction would indeed move the needle, perhaps to 11: Wanda Maximoff.

    There really is so much more to explore. We still haven’t touched on many of her core storylines from the comics. I don’t know that we saw her under rubble? I saw a tower coming down, and a little red flash. I don’t know what that means.

    -Kevin Feige

    Though Elizabeth Olsen has denied her involvement with the project, Marvel Studios One Above All, Kevin Feige, previously made it clear that there Marvel would always bring her back for more and that there is “so much more to explore” with the Scarlet Witch. Adding her to the mix in Avengers: Doomsday as the mysterious masked counterpart of Doom might just be the best option as it would not only tie up several threads left hanging over the course of the Multiverse Saga but allow for an adaptation of a comic project that has long been rumored to be on Marvel Studios radar.

    Prior to Bob Iger’s return to Disney, Olsen was rumored to be at the center of a pair of projects: an adaptation of Alan Heinberg’s limited series, Avengers: The Children’s Crusade, and a Scarlet Witch solo film.

    On the surface, adapting The Children’s Crusade provides the perfect opportunity to continue the story of Wanda Maximoff in the MCU. Following her multi-year arc as a villain which concluded in House of M, Wanda Maximoff lived powerlessly and without her memories for years. It wasn’t until her son, Billy Maximoff, aka Wiccan, began to lose control of his own immense powers that a search began for her in earnest.

    While it’s hardly the same sequence of events, Wanda’s heel-turn as the Scarlet Witch over the course of WandaVision and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and her apparent death in the final act of the latter provide the opportunity for a similar story to be told within the shared tapestry of the MCU,. especially once Billy and Tommy are reunited, presumably by the conclusion of Marvel Television’s upcoming D+ streaming series VisionQuest.

    Revealing the “female Doom” an amnesiac Wanda would retcon Doctor Doom’s presence in the MCU back to the conclusion of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, provide a reason for the Young Avengers/Champions to become involved in the plot(s) of Avengers: Doomsday and/or Avengers: Secret Wars and get one Marvel’s most talented stars involved in the two biggest projects of the decade. Obviously it’s nothing more than a barely-sourced rumor (and likely just a guess) at this point but it makes more sense than any other option in terms of the story-telling possibilities it opens up.

    Source: The Hot Mic

  • ‘Avengers: Doomsday’: Tom Hiddleston Teases Loki’s Role and Hypes the Film’s “Monumental” Story

    ‘Avengers: Doomsday’: Tom Hiddleston Teases Loki’s Role and Hypes the Film’s “Monumental” Story

    Marvel Studios certainly had its fair share of missteps during the Multiverse Saga; however, nobody counts the two seasons of Loki–ironically a project directly at the center of the Multiverse plot–among them.

    For as complicated as the sci-fi weirdness of the show seemed to be, in the end, Loki remained a fairly straightforward character study of one of the MCU’s greatest characters. And powered by one of the MCU’s greatest talents in Tom Hiddleston, Loki became the warm light for all mankind to share in what became the MCU’s “Breaking Good.” As it concluded, Loki found himself making a choice that nobody, including him, could have ever predicted. No longer the conqueror or mischief maker, Loki reanimated the dead branches of reality and set himself about the endless task of giving life to others at the expense of his own freedom. Free will outside of the boundaries set by He Who Remains, Loki became the God of Stories.

    In that role, Loki will certainly find himself face-to-face with Doctor Doom as the villain unleashes “a cascading crisis across the entire multiverse” in Avengers: Doomsday. While some.fans have bemoaned the inclusion of Chris Evans in the 2026 film, it’s hard to find anyone too upset about Hiddleston stepping back into the horns again, though plenty of theories about his role in the film have been crafted over the past year.

    Whatever that role might ultimately be, Hiddleston–as veteran of an MCU actor that exists–is not ready to share it; he is, however, very ready to let everyone know that they’re in for something “brilliant” in Avengers: Doomsday.

    Speaking to GQ, Hiddleston confirmed that while there’s scheduled additional photography for the project, he has completed his “contribution” to Avengers: Doomsday, which he hyped as something “monumental” and “surprising” while insisting the film’s story is something that “just has never been done before.”

    My contribution has been contributed. It is monumental. The centre of the story is absolutely brilliant, and was so surprising when I read it. It just has never been done before.

    –Tom Hiddleston on Avengers: Doomsday

    Its no small praise coming from Hiddleston. For over a decade, the star has remained devoted to curating and protecting the legacy of Loki in the MCU, making it unlikely he’s return simply for a payday nor to slather praise over a story that didn’t do his character’s arc justice. Now the author of not only his own story but also those of the entire Multiverse, Loki is a true hero, fulfilled in his quest for glorious purpose and the timeline–his timeline–won’t fall without a fight.

    Source: GQ

  • As Teasers Continue to Leak, Marvel Studios Plans for a Full ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Trailer Are Revealed

    As Teasers Continue to Leak, Marvel Studios Plans for a Full ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Trailer Are Revealed

    It was one inevitable. Just as Marvel got around to officially releasing the Steve Rogers-centric teaser for Avengers: Doomsday, low quality leaks of the third and fourth teasers–featuring characters from the worlds of the X-Men and Wakanda, respectively–have begun to make their way online. Though the fourth teaser hasn’t circulated quite as freely as the third just yet, excitement has begun to build with each teaser but with a year before the release of the film, it seemed like the growing momentum was about to come to a halt. That no longer seems to be the case.

    According to Trailer Track, long a solid source for legitimate information about trailers, Marvel Studios has no intention of letting the momentum run out and is rather allowing to build to an early February crescendo. Trailer Track is reporting that a full trailer for Avengers: Doomsday “will debut during the Super Bowl” and “will be a MASSIVE event.”

    Disney is no stranger to Super Bowl marketing and Marvel has used the “Big Game” to debut trailers for Thunderbolts* and Deadpool & Wolverine the past two years. Reaching further into the past, the studio has used the Super Bowl to promote each of its previous four Avengers films, making this report all but a certainty.

    Given the focus of the teasers on the film’s returning heroes, it seems logical to wonder if the Big Game spot won’t focus on the film’s title character, Victor Von Doom, played by Robert Downey Jr. Word has circulated that Downey’s look as Doom took inspiration from “classic Universal monster movies,” calling to mind his appearance in Jonathan Hickman‘s Secret Wars.

  • New Report Lists Three Multiversal Heroes Set to Star Alongside Tom Holland’s Spidey in ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’

    New Report Lists Three Multiversal Heroes Set to Star Alongside Tom Holland’s Spidey in ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’

    For Marvel Studios, the beginning of the end of the Multiverse Saga is almost here. In just a few months, cameras are scheduled to roll on Avengers: Secret Wars, the final film in the Multiverse Saga. While the film’s script has certainly undergone some changes since its inception–especially with Stephen McFeely returning to work with Anthony and Joe Russo–it is still largely believed to feature Battleworld, a patchwork reality created by Victor Von Doom by assembling fragments of other realities destroyed by incursions into a kingdom ruled over by him as its God Emperor.

    Stephen McFeely is writing the script. We are right in the middle of the writing process. We’ve always worked very closely with Markus and McFeely through all the work that we’ve done together. It’s a little bit like getting back on a bike. We have a really codified process that we all work together through… It’s very complicated to iron out a story of this scale.

    -Joe Russo

    As in Marvel Comics 2015’s Secret Wars, the patchwork nature of Battleworld should allow for Avengers: Secret Wars to feature plenty of interesting Variants pulled from throughout the Multiverse. And according to a new report, a trio of familiar heroes will be among them.

    According to industry insider Daniel Richtman, Hugh Jackman‘s Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds Deadpool and Tobey Maguire‘s Spider-Man will have major roles in Avengers: Secret Wars, as will Tom Holland as the MCU’s Spider-Man.

    Though this is certainly not the first time these heroes have been mentioned, recent comments by Jackman and Maguire and rumored plans by Reynolds to remain involved with the MCU as it moves into its next saga certainly seem to reinforce the possibility that these stars will help close out the Multiverse Saga and launch the studio’s continuity reset. Additionally, rumors have the trio playing some role in the final act of Avengers: Doomsday, making their return for Avengers: Secret Wars a necessity.