Selection studies that Marvel is spending $80 million to lure the Russos again to direct Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, the 2 movies that may carry the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s ongoing Multiverse Saga to a detailed. Each movies are additionally set to be produced by the Russos’ AGBO outfit reasonably than Marvel’s typical in-house manufacturing group, and can reportedly start taking pictures in London reasonably than Atlanta, the place Avengers: Infinity Battle and Endgame each filmed.
Marvel can be mentioned to be spending “considerably extra” on Downey’s payday to see him re-join the MCU as Physician Doom reasonably than Iron Man — a twist that has some comics precedent, but in addition appears to be an emergency pivot in response to Marvel’s now-scrapped plans to go all-in on Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror.
RDJ, whose efficiency as Tony Stark kicked off the MCU, has commanded sizable Marvel salaries prior to now that spoke to the studio’s dedication to constructing the cinematic franchise round him. That method paid off for Marvel within the MCU’s early days because the Infinity Saga movies reliably broke field workplace data. Nevertheless it’s additionally a part of how the studio has wound up in its present period of tasks that really feel devoid of properly-cultivated gravitational facilities.
