Marvel is sticking with Michael Waldron. The screenwriter behind Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness—also the guy who created and wrote much of the first season of Loki—now has not one but two more major Marvel movies to write. He was previously tapped to write Avengers: Secret Wars, a bit of news about which we were not particularly enthused. And it seems he’ll also be writing the lead-up to that film: Deadline reports that Avengers: The Kang Dynasty is now in Waldron’s hands.
Waldron’s plate may be a little clearer at the moment as presumably he is down one assignment: He was set to write Kevin Feige’s Star Wars film, but that weird trip to a galaxy far, far away is no longer happening. Though Waldron’s production company Anomaly Pictures is quite busy; Deadline notes that “after closing a multi-year megadeal with a combined overall with Marvel/20th Television” they “have a full slate under wraps.”
The Kang Dynasty does not, at the moment, have a director. Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton stepped away recently; Deadline says the reason was “in order to focus on his other Marvel projects like the TV series Wonder Man.” There is also the matter of Kang actor Jonathan Majors’ legal troubles: Majors was arrested in March on assault and harassment charges, and his trial is set to begin this week.
The film does have a release date—May 1, 2026—that is far enough in the future to give Waldron some time to, one hopes, put together a more satisfying story than those he has written for Marvel to date.
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