UPDATE: Daniel Richtman is now reporting that Avengers: Secret Wars won't actually begin filming until November.
Assuming the scooper is right, it's very difficult to imagine Marvel Studios having this incredibly ambitious movie ready for theaters by next December.
Charles Murphy also shared the following:
Original article follows.
Can Avengers: Secret Wars hope to make its current release date?
Fans were already sceptical, but these latest shooting updates have left many more wondering how Marvel Studios and directors Joe and Anthony Russo could possibly have the movie ready for theaters by December 17, 2027.
We had heard that shooting was scheduled to get underway in August, but the trades are now reporting that cameras won't start rolling until later this month or possibly even early October.
During a recent interview with AP News, the Russos revealed that they had begun “soft prepping” production on Secret Wars.
“When you’re doing one of these movies it’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done,” Joe told the site. “When you’re doing two of them, it’s almost inconceivable. But it’s the second time around we’re doing two back to back.”
Doomsday filmed from April until September 2025, with reshoots only just wrapping up. The movie is set to hit theatres this December. Assuming Secret Wars follows a similar shooting schedule and filming doesn't commence until late September/early October, it would be well into 2028 before the film is released.
It seems like a Herculean task, especially given the massive scale of Secret Wars, but - despite what they said above - there is a chance the Russos have already been working on the movie and may have even filmed some scenes already.
It's also likely that work will go a little faster on Secret Wars since the Russo brothers and their cast and crew are still "in the zone" from shooting Doomsday, and with a lot of the sets already built, they definitely shouldn't need to spend as much time on pre-production.
What do you think? Will Secret Wars be hit with another delay? Let us know in the comments.
Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars were hit with significant delays last year, with Doomsday now set to arrive in theaters on December 18, 2026, and Secret Wars positioned for December 17, 2027.
Both movies will be directed by the Russo brothers, who also make their MCU return after helming Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.
"Universes collide and the Multiverse Saga begins its final chapter in Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Doomsday. Beloved heroes from three distinct universes will be set on a deadly collision course and ultimately face an existential threat unlike anything they’ve ever encountered. This epic film will lay the foundation for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe."
Doomsday will star:
Paul Rudd as Ant-Man, Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Lewis Pullman as Sentry, Florence Pugh as Yelena, Danny Ramirez as Falcon, Ian McKellen as Magneto, Sebastian Stan as Bucky, Winston Duke as M’Baku, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Kelsey Grammer as Beast, James Marsden as Cyclops, Channing Tatum as Gambit, and Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent
Along with Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, Rebecca Romijn as Mystique, Patrick Stewart as Professor X, Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler, Letitia Wright as Black Panther, Tenoch Huerta Mejia as Namor, Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm, David Harbour as Red Guardian, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as The Thing, Anthony Mackie as Captain America, and, of course, Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom.