Predator: Badlands arrives in theaters today, but somewhere else in the Multiverse, we’re all sitting down to watch Avengers: Secret Wars.<\/p>\n
At 2022’s San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel\u00a0President Kevin Feige announced that\u00a0Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars would\u00a0be released on May 2, 2025\u00a0and November 7, 2025, respectively. The idea was for them to conclude the Multiverse Saga (at an admittedly breakneck pace, given how many movies and TV shows have been released since 2019’s Avengers: Endgame).\u00a0<\/p>\n
We later learned that Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton would helm Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, and only\u00a0The Kang Dynasty. A few names were rumoured for Secret Wars, but as far as we’re aware, no one ever signed on the dotted line. As for Cretton, he’s moved on to Spider-Man: Brand New Day.<\/p>\n
Jeff Loveness was hired to write the first of the two movies, with Michael Waldron writing Secret Wars (there were rumours the latter might reunite with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness director Sam Raimi).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both movies ran into major problems when Jonathan Majors was fired after some well-publicised personal issues. As a result, The Kang Dynasty became Doomsday, with the Russo Brothers confirmed to direct both that and Secret Wars, and Robert Downey Jr. officially unmasked as the MCU’s\u00a0Doctor Doom.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The movies were pushed back to\u00a0May 1, 2026 and May 7, 2027, only for plans to change\u00a0again when, this past May, Avengers: Doomsday was moved to December 18, 2026, and Avengers: Secret Wars to\u00a0December 17, 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So, it’s all changed with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, but Avengers: Secret Wars wasn’t the only MCU movie originally scheduled for release today. For a time, so was Blade!<\/p>\n
It was at the\u00a0San Diego Comic-Con in 2019 that Feige brought out\u00a0Mahershala Ali and announced a new Blade movie. Three years later, he told fans in Hall H that the reboot would arrive in theaters on November 3, 2023. It then moved to\u00a0September 6, 2024, and later slid further down the calendar to\u00a0February 14, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For a time, it too had a\u00a0November 7, 2025 release date. Ultimately, it\u00a0was removed from Marvel Studios’ schedule altogether and taken back to the drawing board (having already gone through multiple creative teams). As of now, Blade remains undated.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Avengers: Doomsday\u00a0officially stars Chris Hemsworth,\u00a0Anthony Mackie,\u00a0Winston Duke,\u00a0Tom Hiddleston, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, and\u00a0Robert Downey Jr.\u00a0Wyatt Russell,\u00a0Simu Liu, Tenoch Huerta Mejia,\u00a0Florence Pugh,\u00a0Danny Ramirez,\u00a0David Harbour,\u00a0Hannah John-Kamen,\u00a0and\u00a0Lewis Pullman all make their\u00a0Avengers\u00a0franchise debuts in the movie.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Fantastic Four: First Steps\u00a0leads Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and\u00a0Joseph Quinn join them, as do\u00a0X-Men\u00a0franchise stars Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden, with\u00a0Deadpool & Wolverine\u00a0star Channing Tatum.<\/p>\n
The Russo Brothers direct the movie from a screenplay\u00a0by\u00a0Stephen McFeely, with whom they previously collaborated on the\u00a0Avengers\u00a0and\u00a0Captain America\u00a0franchises.\u00a0Loki\u00a0and\u00a0Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’s Michael Waldron is also working on the script.<\/p>\n
Avengers: Doomsday\u00a0is set to be released on December 18, 2026, with\u00a0Avengers: Secret Wars\u00a0scheduled\u00a0to arrive on December 17, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Predator: Badlands arrives in theaters today, but somewhere else in the Multiverse, we’re all sitting down to watch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[15076,22121,88,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-277637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-avengers-secret-wars","9":"tag-blade","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}