AVENGERS: THE KANG DYNASTY Will Be Helmed By SHANG-CHI Director Destin Daniel Cretton!

AVENGERS: THE KANG DYNASTY Will Be Helmed By SHANG-CHI Director Destin Daniel Cretton!

San Diego Comic-Con may be over, but the big Marvel Studios news is still coming, as it's just been announced that Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton will helm Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.

By MarkCassidy - Jul 26, 2022 02:07 PM EST

San Diego Comic-Con brought the news that the next big Marvel Cinematic Universe saga would culminate with two back-to-back Avengers movies in 2025, and we know know who will direct the first.

THR reports that Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton has officially signed on to helm Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.

This is pretty major news to be revealed so soon after the movie's announcement, and even though there are a lot of MCU big and small screen projects to come between now and the time The Kang Dynasty hits theaters on May 2, 2025, it suggests Kevin Feige and co. are already looking well ahead and mapping out the Phase 6 finale.

No writer has been assigned to the project (that we know of), and we still have no idea which characters will make up the next incarnation of Earth's Mightiest Heroes. We should have a much clearer picture after Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania hits theaters next year, however.

All we do know about the next Avengers film is that it will focus on Jonathan Majors' villainous Kang the Conqueror, who will have a significant part to play over the next two phases of The MCU. Majors actually debuted as another "Variant" of the character, He Who Remains, in the season finale of Disney+'s Loki.

Cretton recently signed an overall deal with Marvel Studios, and is also developing a live-action Wonder Man series that he will exec produce and possibly direct, as well as a Shang-Chi sequel.

At SDCC, Marvel Studios also confirmed that Bassam Tariq is directing Blade; Julius Onah will helm Captain America: New World Order, and Jake Schreier is directing Thunderbolts.

What do you guys make of this news? Do you think Destin Daniel Cretton is the right choice to bring Avengers 5 to the screen? Drop us a comment down below.

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ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 7/26/2022, 2:21 PM
Sweet! Shang-Chi was one of the better solo MCU projects so far IMO.
thewanderer
thewanderer - 7/26/2022, 2:34 PM
@ModHaterSLADE - He also directed Just Mercy which was very good, as well as The Glass Castle, which I haven't watched yet but have heard good things about.
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 7/26/2022, 2:45 PM
@thewanderer - Thanks for the heads up.
MILESSPIDERMAN
MILESSPIDERMAN - 7/26/2022, 3:07 PM
@ModHaterSLADE - Ryan Coogler should do SW.
suitekid
suitekid - 7/26/2022, 3:09 PM
@thewanderer - Also Short Term 12 which is fantastic.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 7/26/2022, 3:16 PM
@ModHaterSLADE - Not to mention it also had the best hand to hand combat of any MCU film.
thewanderer
thewanderer - 7/26/2022, 3:20 PM
@suitekid - I'll have to check that out. I actually own a digital copy of The Glass Castle that I bought cheap awhile back, just haven't gotten around to watching it.

Really liked Just Mercy.
Fogs
Fogs - 7/26/2022, 4:01 PM
@ModHaterSLADE - yeah, there's some stuff I'm not a fan but they're definitely non-direction related.

Was an enjoyable film with some great action scenes.
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 7/26/2022, 4:24 PM
@MILESSPIDERMAN - I'd be down for that. The man has been pretty consistent.
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 7/26/2022, 5:22 PM
@SonOfAGif - Definitely. Makes me excited to see what they'll do with Iron Fist in the MCU.
mcmurray
mcmurray - 7/26/2022, 6:43 PM
@ModHaterSLADE - LOL
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 7/26/2022, 8:14 PM
@mcmurray - Get a look in the mirror?
suitekid
suitekid - 7/26/2022, 8:36 PM
@thewanderer - It’s a big reccomend for me and it’s a cast full of heavy hitters right before they hit big. I’ll have to check out Just Mercy. Been on the list awhile but haven’t gotten around to it.
thewanderer
thewanderer - 7/28/2022, 9:24 AM
@ModHaterSLADE - just saw an interesting theory that Ms Marvel's bangle, as well as Shang-Chi's rings, will end up belonging to Kang that he left or lost in the past while time traveling.

Ms Marvel's bangle was on a severed blue arm, in a room tied to the Ten Rings organization.. Many thought it may be the arm of a Kree, but Captain Marvel has stated she's never seen anything like the Ten Rings, so they aren't likely Kree related.

The theory posits, what if the severed blue arm was Kang's? And in The Kang Dynasty movie we see a flashback of him in that Ten Rings room losing his arm, leaving the bangle in the past.

It certainly would tie everything together!
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 7/28/2022, 12:13 PM
@thewanderer - Agreed.
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