Whilst Joe and Anthony Russo have previously ruled out a return to the MCU anytime in the near future, the pair aren’t against the idea altogether.
This week, speaking to Variety to talk up their AGBO production company and its slate of upcoming projects, Joe Russo says the pair have a great relationship with Marvel. However working on another MCU film is something that’s a years off prospect for them:
“We’re always talking; we’d need to see what would work. We won’t be ready to do anything with Marvel until the end of the decade.”
That would seem to put to rest any talk of the Russo Brothers returning for “Avengers: Secret Wars” releasing in 2026, and suggests even if they do return, it won’t be until Marvel’s seventh phase at the earliest.
The pair are currently filming the sci-fi feature “The Electric State,” which is coming to Netflix sometime in 2024 and today announced new cast additions with Giancarlo Esposito, Ke Huy Quan, Anthony Mackie and Billy Bob Thornton lending their voices to the project.
The pair also have a large amount of projects they are producing. One of those is a live-action adaptation of Disney’s 1997 animated feature “Hercules” with Guy Ritchie set to direct and currently working on his own pass of the screenplay.
Russo says the film will be a musical: “There are questions about how you translate it as a musical. Audiences today have been trained by TikTok, right? What is their expectation of what that musical looks like and feels like? That can be a lot of fun and help us push the boundaries a little bit on how you execute a modern musical.”
The pair are also producing the ambitious spy thriller “Citadel” and a “Butch and Sundance” event series with Rege-Jean Page and Glen Powell.
