The Russo Bros. in Talks with Marvel Studios To Direct Next Two AVENGERS Films
Marvel Studios is in talks with Joe and Anthony Russo to return to direct the next two Avengers movies that have been in development. Those films were previously titled Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars.
A lot has changed over the years with Marvel, and they’ve recently retooled a lot of things behind the scenes, and the direction they are looking to take things in the future.
The Russos are said to be in early talks, but if they are hired, there’s no doubt fans will be happy to see them return to the Marvel family to make two more great Avengers films.
Several directors have been in talks to helm these films over the past several months including Shawn Levy (Deadpool & Wolverine), Sam Raimi (Spider-Man), Justin Benson, and Aaron Moorhead (Moon Knight). Destin Daniel Cretton was the original director of The Kang Dynasty.
The Russos left Marvel to do their own thing and nothing they’ve done has been as good as what they’ve done for Marvel. It seemed like they were burnt out, but enough time has passed that they are actually open to return.
Joe Russo previously said a couple of years ago: "We won't be ready to do anything with Marvel until the end of the decade."
Things have changed since then, though, and he later said: “We've talked to [Marvel chief creative officer] Kevin [Feige] and [Marvel Studios co-president] Lou [D'Esposito] all the time at Marvel. [Marvel Studios executive Vice President of Production] Victoria [Alonso].
“They're all your friends of ours... there's always conversations going on. I think, you know, when we all land on with the right project is for us all to team back up on what, we'll jump in feet first for sure."
It's also no secret that the Russos are big fans of the Secret Wars storylines. Joe Russo once said: "We just always answer truthfully when we're asked, 'Would you work with them [Marvel Studios]?' 'Of course we would, we adore them.'
“'What would you like to do?' 'Secret Wars, it was our favorite series growing up.' And then I think it always gets turned into a bigger story. But to be clear: there is no story... We haven't had conversations with those guys about anything that they're up to because we've been intensely busy with our own schedule."
When previously talking about Secret Wars, Joe Russo said: "You know, I read that when I was 10 or 11, and it was the scale of getting all of the heroes together. It was one of the first major books to do that – that was really event-storytelling to me at its finest.
“And what happens when you put all of those personalities together. I also like the idea of villains having to team up with heroes. Anth and I like complicated relationships between heroes and villains, we like villains who believe they're heroes in their own stories, so it's all sort of built into this notion of Secret Wars.
“To execute something on the scale of Infinity War was directly related to the dream of Secret Wars, which is even larger in scale."
So, they might actually be able to tell this story that they were so excited about telling.
Source: THR