Avengers: The Kang Dynasty’s Star and Director Have Begun Discussions

With 9 Marvel motion pictures set to launch earlier than the subsequent Avengers movie, The Kang Dynasty, there’s not a lot anybody can say about it. Two of the issues we do learn about it nonetheless are that Kang, performed by Jonathan Majors, shall be in it, and Shang-Chi’s Destin Daniel Cretton shall be directing. And now we all know these two have begun discussing their upcoming work on the movie.

“We just had a few chats. We spoke a very long time,” Majors stated this weekend in an interview with Variety. “He’s an open mind. He’s an open heart and he’s grounded. He and the work that he does is grounded and I think that’s the most important part about it.”

Majors, who originated the character within the Disney+ present Loki, will subsequent convey him again in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. So, clearly, no matter occurs in that movie in addition to Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3., The Marvels, Captain America: New World Order, Thunderbolts, Blade, Deadpool 3, and even Fantastic Four, all of which must be launched earlier than The Kang Dynasty, play a component (to not point out a number of Disney+ exhibits). Writer Jeff Loveness, who penned Quantumania, is at the moment figuring that each one out for the script. So, once more, there isn’t a lot Major can say in public. But he did preach a bit about these conversations he had with Cretton and their intentions with the movie.

“We’re dealing with myths,” he added. “You know, what is a Kang? What is a movie? What is a MCU movie? What does that mean? What does that look like? Those are the questions we’re asking. But all of that works when it’s grounded and really, really, really tucked into the given circumstances of what’s going on between these people, and what we can illuminate for ourselves as a species.”

It feels like the subsequent Avengers film received’t solely have an entire new group. It’ll have an entire new lofty set of expectations. It’s at the moment scheduled to open May 2, 2025. Here’s the Variety interview.

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