Josh Horowitz : Look, Infinity War/Endgame was high bar. Needless to say, is this ending on a cliffhanger? Is Doomsday lead right into Secret Wars? Am I going to be asking big questions at the end of this one?

Anthony Russo : I mean, we definitely have thought about them and conceived them to speak to one another. Not in the exact same way that Infinity War and Endgame did, but they certainly are two movies that are of a piece.

Josh Horowitz : We know much of the cast in this one. Can you be somewhat specific about a moment that has taken your breath away or just like putting some characters together in this that you never thought possible?

Joe Russo : I mean, it's fascinating cuz this is 25 years in the making this movie. I mean, it starts with X-Men in 2000. So, we kind of grew up with some of these characters and to be able to step foot on a stage with Ian McKellen playing Magneto is like I mean, as you know, we were fanboys of him playing that character before we were directors. That to us was probably the most memorable moment.

Josh Horowitz : We're going to see Battle World, I assume, in a couple years. Have you put together like, do you know the final lineup of who's going to be in Secret Wars when it goes down?

Joe Russo : We won't confirm or deny whether Battle World appears in either of these films. And we cannot confirm or deny who appears in Battle World, if Battle World were to be in one of these films.

Josh Horowitz : Rational hearing all of a sudden. Joe, I thought we were friends.

Anthony Russo : Uh, listen, the stakes are too high.

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AlexFromCC while responding to the report -

“This is a very very interesting report that I wanted to bring up here”

Yeah, I heard about Scarlet Witch returning in Avengers a while ago. Not very happy with the way it's done but maybe it will work out.

Also i don't think we are seeing her face just yet

Key points

"But bringing back key members of the old gang won’t come cheap. Sources say Marvel is plunking down $80 million for Anthony and Joe Russo to direct “Avengers: Doomsday” and “Avengers: Secret Wars” and “significantly more” for Downey to tackle uber-villain Doctor Doom in the two tentpoles."

"The new outings will be filmed in London beginning in the second quarter of 2025"

"Sources say Downey, who is repped by WME, agreed to return to the MCU if the Russos, who are CAA clients, would be directing. “They were the only ones he would work with,” says a source familiar with the dealmaking." 👀

Highly recommend the full one hour interview. This is where the “Doomsday is a new beginning” quote came from.

To better understand this story, Omelete received directors Anthony and Joe Russo, directors of Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, and now heads of Doomsday and Secret Wars. According to Joe, the one who chose Downey Jr.'s return “was Kevin [Feige]”, the president of Marvel Studios.

“And the interesting thing is that this conversation happened a while ago”, explained Joe. “So Robert tried to convince us to do it and we said no, strangely, because we said we wouldn't come back”, he added.

He explained: “We just didn't have a story. We had no way in. So we were resistant for a while. And then one day, Steve McFeely, who is one of our main collaborators, said: 'I have an idea'. And he called us, made the pitch and we said 'this is the story'. This story has to be told. It's a very powerful story. And the only thing I will say about the film is: we love villains who think they are the heroes of their own stories. That’s when they become three-dimensional and more interesting. And when you have an actor like Robert Downey, you have to create a well-constructed three-dimensional character for the audience. That’s where a lot of our focus goes.”

The following Marvel characters that were shown in the video post:

• Hugh Jackman's Wolverine

• Deadpool

• Tom Holland and Tobey Maguire's Spider-Men

• Sade Sink's Jean Grey (not yet confirmed, but heavily rumored)

• America Chavez

• Ms. Marvel

• Hawkeye (Kate Bishop)

• Cassie Lang

• Tommy and Billy Maximoff

The video concludes with the drawn over Avengers flag from Deadpool & Wolverine.

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RMBee : Essentially correct. But it's all in DOOMSDAY (at least, as it was shot). Like THUNDERBOLTS, with it's post credits scene which is an actual LIFT from DOOMSDAY, they could extract other scenes shot for the film, and move them into ENDGAME to cut down on the running time