Avengers: Secret Wars has never had a filmmaker attached to it, though several names have been linked to the movie over the past eighteen months or so.
Among them is Spider-Man and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness director Sam Raimi. He worked with writer Michael Waldron on the latter and, despite the messy nature of the sequel, has proven himself a pro at handling ensemble casts.
Taking charge of Secret Wars would also likely give Raimi a chance to reunite with Tobey Maguire, and it's hard to imagine anyone being upset if he's chosen by Marvel Studios to helm perhaps the biggest Avengers movie of all time.
Raimi was a WonderCon this weekend to discuss his new movie, Boy Kills World, and was asked by Screen Geek about the possibility of directing the Multiverse Saga's finale.
"I love 90% of the Marvel heroes that I’ve read in the great Stan Lee Marvel Universe comic books," he told the site. "I would love to work with Marvel again. They haven’t reasonably asked me to. I hope they had a good experience with me. They haven’t asked me yet. I hope they do."
He's willing, but whether Marvel Studios wants him remains to be seen. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton was once attached to Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, but that movie has lost him, original writer Jeff Loveness, and even its title (not to mention lead star Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror).
"Well, I haven’t heard about that yet," Raimi also said this past weekend when asked about possibly making Spider-Man 4 a reality. "I did read that, but I’m not actually working on it yet. I mean, Marvel and Columbia are so successful with current Spider-Man [movies], and the track there, and I don’t know that they’re going to go back to me, and say, 'Well, folks, we can also tell that story!'"
"I’m not sure, but I love all the new Spider-Man movies," he continued. "I loved Spider-Man: No Way Home. It was really, super powerful seeing Tobey [Maguire] again in it."
Only time will tell whether Raimi has a future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it's beginning to feel like Marvel Studios missed a trick by not including a Spider-Man scene in the Doctor Strange sequel!
Avengers 5 is currently scheduled to arrive in theaters on May 1, 2026, with Avengers: Secret Wars to follow on May 7, 2027.