The Avengers will assemble for Secret Wars as Deadline reports Loki writer Michael Waldron will pen the script for the sixth film of the ensemble blockbuster for Marvel Studios. It will be the second film of 2025 after The Kang Dynasty. The two films will conclude the Multiverse Saga with Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror, the big bad who has replaced Josh Brolin’s Thanos.
The news of Avengers: Secret Wars finding its writer is not long after The Kang Dynasty assembled its crew. The first part of the 2025 Avengers films will be directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, the director of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Most recently, that film announced that Jeff Loveness would pen that film. Loveness has been known for winning an Emmy for his work on Rick and Morty. On the Marvel side, he wrote Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which releases on February 17, 2023. No director is attached to Secret Wars, but it will have a different director from the Shang-Chi filmmaker.
Loki writer Michael Waldron is set to pen Avengers: Secret Wars
Michael Waldron served as the writer, showrunner, and executive producer of Loki, which received the green light for a second season. He most recently wrote Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Waldron is also known for creating and writing the Starz series Heels. He is also attached to penning the untitled Star Wars film that Kevin Feige will be producing.
Marvel has done the two-parter route before, with Infinity War and Endgame releasing a year apart. To up the ambition of the multiverse madness, the studio will release The Kang Dynasty on May 2, 2025, and Secret Wars on November 7 of the same year. Not much is known about the plot details, especially how much the last two Avengers films deviated from the comic storyline that inspired them. All we can expect is a major crossover of characters across the universe to unite against a common enemy.