The focus of the Marvel universe currently rests on the upcoming Marvel movie Deadpool & Wolverine , which has been dropping plenty of teasers and is going to unite Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman for an anticipated romp through the Marvel Multiverse . If you look beyond that movie, though, we are still a few years off of the next Avengers movie..
. and the gap between Avengers: Endgame and the follow up Avengers movie grows with each passing year. There have been more than a few potholes in the road leading to whatever Marvel Studios is going to call Avengers 5 , including the departure of original director Destin Daniel Cretton ( Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ).
Now, we allegedly have landed in another. It is being reported by Nexus Point News that Michael Waldron, brainchild behind the Disney+ series Loki , has departed Avengers 5 and will be replaced by a name that has not yet been revealed. Waldron wrote Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in addition to shaping the two seasons of Loki, and when you think about the storytelling that he did on that show, he made a lot of sense for Avengers 5 .
His departure could be pointing to a complete shift in the direction of the story ...
namely, away from Kang the Conqueror. Loki has focused fairly heavily on the introduction of Kang ( Jonathan Majors ) as the prominent threat for the Multiverse Saga. He’s supposed to be Thanos of this new set of movies.
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