“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” director Destin Daniel Cretton has been set to direct “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty,” the fifth “Avengers” movie and the first of two “Avengers” films due for release in 2025.
The project was announced at Marvel’s Saturday presentation at San Diego Comic-Con. Cretton’s “Shang-Chi” grossed $432 million worldwide along with being one of the best-received entries in Marvel’s current fourth phase of films. He also has overall deal with Marvel that he signed in the wake of that success.
It is not yet clear who is writing the film or what heroes will star in the movie which will help close out Marvel’s ‘Phase 6’ plans. It does have a date though with a May 2nd 2025 release locked in.
Marvel will wrap up ‘Phase 4’ with “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” in November and then kick off ‘Phase 5′ with Peyton Reed’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” opening in February next year.
That film will see Jonathan Majors’ Kang make his formal introduction after an earlier variant known as ‘He Who Remains’ appeared in the first season finale of “Loki”.
What this means for Cretton’s plans for a live-action series featuring “Wonder Man,” or the proposed “Shang-Chi” sequel is not clear. He joins several directors locked in for future Marvel projects including Bassam Tariq for “Blade,” Julius Onah for “Captain America: New World Order,” and Jake Schreier for “Thunderbolts”.
Source: THR
