Marvel continues to workers up its upcoming two-part Avengers sequels, The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars. In latest weeks, we heard that Shang-Chi’s Destin Daniel Cretton would direct, from a screenplay by Jeff Loveness. Whereas Secret Wars has but to seek out (or no less than announce) a director, it appears to be like like a Marvel Cinematic Universe veteran will return to write down its script.
Deadline experiences that Michael Waldron has drawn the project to write down Secret Wars. Marvel zombies know him because the creator of the Disney+ collection Loki. Waldron additionally labored on the screenplay for Marvel’s latest hit Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity.
Right here’s extra, through Deadline:
Insiders say conferences for the job passed off final month, and whereas plenty of writers met, many believed Waldron was the front-runner given how a lot belief the studio has within the author. Waldron has been on a roll with the studio through the previous yr, beginning with final yr’s smash hit Loki collection for Disney+. Waldron served as exec producer and showrunner on the collection, which was so widespread it turned considered one of few Marvel collection to obtain a second-season renewal.
Waldron clearly has a really robust relationship with Marvel’s Kevin Feige; even earlier than Secret Wars, he was already working with Feige on his hush-hush Star Wars challenge, the main points of which nonetheless have but to be made public. Apparently, Marvel’s earlier Avengers sequels, Infinity Warfare and Endgame, had been written and directed by the identical inventive crew. Thus far, The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars are shaping as much as be made a little bit in another way, with separate writers (and doable administrators) on each films.
Provided that Waldron was a key creator within the present that formally launched the multiverse to Marvel, he clearly has grip on the idea. It’s solely becoming that he be the one to write down the tip of “The Multiverse Saga” when Avengers: Secret Wars opens in theaters on November 7, 2025.
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