Marvel Studios has reportedly set its sights on Sam Raimi to direct “Secret Wars”, the sixth opus in the “Avengers” saga, which is now scheduled for release on May 5, 2027 in France.
On July 14, the actors joined the writers who had been on strike since May and forced some additional filming to stop. Like that of Deadpool 3 on the Marvel side, whose productions are all at a standstill.
As during the Covid, the studio had to upset its release schedule, and this is how Secret Wars, the sixth (and last?) episode of the Avengers saga, is now expected on May 5, 2027 in our theaters.
It’s far away, of course. But that doesn’t stop Kevin Feige and his teams from actively working on it, if we are to believe the scooper MyTimeToShineHello. On Twitter, the latter claims that Marvel Studios has a darling for the realization of Secret Wars, and that the latter is none other than Sam Raimi.
(“Sources confirm Sam Raimi is Marvel’s No. 1 choice to direct Secret Wars”)
From Darkman to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to, of course, his much-loved Spider-Man trilogy, the director has proven his talent when it comes to superheroes. That Marvel Studios wants to work with him again is therefore not surprising.
But several warnings are necessary: the information comes from a scooper, one of those insiders whose reliability is not the main quality. And if what is said here were true, the status of “number 1 choice” indicates a wish, a dream scenario. A desire for the moment unilateral from the studio, which has perhaps not yet approached the director to offer him the project.
Released in May 2022, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness showed that Sam Raimi’s paw could appear, at times, in a large machine the size of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which tends to make its characters’ identities disappear. directors.
SAM RAIMI IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MARVEL
But many spectators were disappointed by the sequence with the Illuminati, the one which concentrated the majority of the cameos in the story. But Secret Wars should look like this passage. Power ten. If the film is faithful to the comic books from which it takes its title, it will bring together almost all of the heroes and villains of the MCU on a planet called Battleworld.
An XXL cross-over as well praised for its gigantism as its introspective accents in the case of the story published in 2015, and which notably marked the end of Fantastic 4, the publications of which Marvel was preparing to cancel, due to the fight between Disney and Fox for their rights. But isn’t that a little too big for Sam Raimi?
The Walt Disney Pictures Sam Raimi on the set of “Doctor Strange 2”
Spider-Man 3 and Doctor Strange 2 showed that too many characters (the result of concessions made to the studio that employs him) harm his superhero films. While it is never as good as on the intimate side of the genre. Could the situation change with Secret Wars, if he were to be approached and accept the challenge?
We will probably not have an answer before the end of the actors’ and screenwriters’ strike, during which this type of contract will not be signed. In the meantime, everything suggests that, unlike Infinity War and Endgame, both directed by the Russo brothers, The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars will have different directors, Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi) being in pole position for the first , expected on April 29, 2026.