On the San Diego Comedian-Con in 2022, Marvel Studios introduced plans for Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars. Even earlier than Jonathan Majors’ authorized points, the studio was having its doubts about retaining Kang because the Multiverse Saga’s large unhealthy.
Why? Properly, Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania was a vital and industrial disappointment. Dependable insiders later claimed that Marvel Studios was shocked by the response, and it appears it shook them sufficient to marvel if Kang was the incorrect villain to be specializing in.
Since then, rather a lot has modified. Charting the chaotic productions of each films isn’t any straightforward job, however The Kang Dynasty‘s director Destin Daniel Cretton is now helming Spider-Man 4, and neither Michael Waldron nor Jeff Loveness are connected to write down both film.
As an alternative, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars have each been rewritten by Stephen McFeely and can be helmed by Avengers: Endgame administrators the Russo Brothers.
We have beforehand heard the plan for Avengers: The Kang Dynasty was to pit Earth’s Mightiest Heroes towards the Council of Kangs however some further particulars have been shared as we speak by The Cosmic Circus’ Alex Perez.
In line with the scooper, separate Avengers groups got down to battle Immortus, Centurion and Rama-Tut, the three Kang Variants teased on the finish of Quantumania.
Nonetheless, the Conqueror Variant was going to return from “The Past” within the third act to take revenge towards his doppelgangers and grow to be He Who Stays.
It is unclear what would have occurred from there heading into Avengers: Secret Wars, however with historical past repeating itself and the Multiverse as soon as once more destroyed, we have heard surviving heroes from a number of totally different realities had been set to battle “The Beyonder” in The Void.
It is mentioned that Doctor Doom was by no means a part of Marvel Studios’ authentic plans for the two-part Multiverse Saga finale; as an alternative, he – and others – had been to be revealed as being amongst these faraway from the timeline by Kang to make sure they may thrive. Nonetheless, as soon as these Variants had been defeated, Doom was teased because the “evil” they had been attempting to maintain at bay with their actions.
Perez provides, “Now, you’re getting the aftermath of what would have principally been the following Saga, however with Doom on the forefront as an alternative of Kang combined in with a few concepts from earlier scripts.”
So, had issues performed out in a different way, Doom was set to be the Mutant Saga’s large unhealthy and sure had much more sceentime earlier than debuting. It is at all times attention-grabbing to consider what may need been, however it’s uncertain that Loveness and Waldron had been the suitable individuals to drag this bold story off.
Whereas Loki did an awesome job of setting the stage for Kang, many common moviegoers do not watch the MCU TV exhibits, so counting on the Ant-Man threequel to get individuals sufficient in seeing all these Kang Variants go to struggle…properly, that was going to be a giant ask.
Avengers: Doomsday is about to be launched in Could 2026, with Avengers: Secret Wars scheduled to reach in Could 2027.
