The Russo bros. reveal how the Multiverse Saga’s Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars will differ from the Infinity Saga’s Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, and tease what it will mean for the MCU’s future. Joe and Anthony Russo earned a respected spot among MCU directors with their acclaimed directorial work on Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War, which gave them the opportunity to helm the Infinity Saga’s two-part finale. With four wildly successful MCU movies under their belt, the Russo bros. seem like the perfect choice to direct the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars.

In an interview with Omelete, Joe Russo describes Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars as “a beginning,” as opposed to Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, which served as the Infinity Saga’s climactic finale. Joe Russo doesn’t elaborate on what the Multiverse Saga’s two Avengers movies will set up, but states that the reason why he and Anthony Russo returned to the MCU was “the right story.” Read Joe Russo’s full comments below:

“The greatest thing that ever happened is we got to, you know, get immersed in you know a 20 movie arc and and see an ending to that arc. What’s compelling about these two new Avengers movies is they’re a beginning. It’s a new beginning. We told an ending story, now we’re going to tell a beginning story. And then who knows where we’ll go from there. Maybe it’ll be another 5 years but I think we just needed that time and perspective to figure out where it needed to go next, and the only thing that brought us back was the right story.”

What Joe Russo’s Avengers Doomsday And Secret Wars Comments Mean For The MCU

Avengers: Doomsday And Secret Wars Won’t Be An Infinity Saga And Endgame Retread

It would be easy for Marvel Studios and the Russo bros. to play it safe and copy Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame‘s best qualities in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. Avengers: Infinity War‘s downer cliffhanger and Avengers: Endgame‘ mᴀssive final battle provide a theoretically infallible template for the Multiverse Saga’s next two crossover movies, which could do the same on a multiversal level. However, both tricks are unlikely to succeed twice in a row.

Joe Russo’s comments suggest Marvel won’t try to replicate Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. While Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars will likely pay homage to the Marvel multiverse and the actors and characters that came before the MCU, they may not be focused on wrapping up characters’ arcs and honoring previous Multiverse Saga events. After all, many characters introduced in the Multiverse Saga have barely started their MCU journeys.

Our Take On Joe Russo’s Avengers Doomsday And Secret Wars Comments

Doomsday And Secret Wars’ “Beginning” Theme Has A Basis In The Comics, But Not Marvel’s

Given Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars‘ multiversal plot, the two movies are likely to lead into a multiversal reboot that will streamline Marvel’s infinite collection of parallel realities and possibly retcon several characters and events in order to leave all Marvel characters in one place. Such an extensive overhaul has been a comic book staple for decades. Curiously though, multiversal reboots are a regular occurrence in DC Comics, while Marvel’s comic book timeline has never restarted from scratch.

Marvel Studios is unlikely to miss the opportunity of having all the Avengers cross over with the MCU’s own X-Men. But in order to achieve it, new variants of beloved characters would have to be introduced and integrated into the MCU’s present day. Otherwise, it would be virtually impossible to see characters like Iron Man and Wolverine share the screen in live-action. Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars may create a new MCU where events like these can happen.

Source: Omelete

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