Last week, Jonathan Majors was officially fired from his MCU role as Kang by Marvel Studios after being found guilty of two of the charges filed against him. The jury found the Loki and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania star guilty of two misdemeanour counts of harassment and assault, as well as not guilty on two additional charges of intentional assault in the third degree and aggravated harassment in the second degree.
We got word that Marvel/Disney had severed ties with Majors almost immediately after the news that he'd been found guilty broke, which would obviously seem to suggest that they were waiting for the verdict before making their decision. However, some insiders believe that the studio was never going to move forward with Majors as Kang, regardless of the outcome of the trial.
Either way, The Kang Dynasty subtitle has been dropped (no surprise there), and the project is being referred to internally as "Avengers 5" for the time being. To what extent the current story will be altered remains to be seen, but it sounds like production has been hit with a significant delay.
According to Daniel Richtman, filming was set to commence in March, but is now scheduled to get underway late next year. As for Spider-Man 4, the scooper has heard that cameras won't start rolling until 2025.
Tom Holland and Zendaya are said to have signed on for the still untitled No Way Home follow-up, but we don't know much more about it. Rumors have been doing the rounds online, but we wouldn't put too much stock in them, since the movie doesn't even have a script yet.
Though Holland will almost certainly be back, this could be his final time playing the wall-crawler. During a recent interview, the actor said he feels that he's become too used to the "safety blanket of Spider-Man."
"I want to do things that scare me, things that make me uncomfortable. When you do what we do, you have to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. This show is a perfect example of that. Ben is consistently telling me, if you don’t commit, they won’t believe you. The reason I wasn’t committing is because I was afraid. I’ve never done anything like this before. I got so used to the Marvel machine and the safety blanket of Spider-Man, feeling like I was protected. So, doing something like this was incredibly scary, but because it was so scary, it was so fulfilling and so rewarding. Going forward, if there’s something that I feel like I can’t do, I want to do that one. Playing a sort of stupid English doofus is not what I want to do because that’s my life, right?"