The Next ‘Avengers’ Is No Longer Called ‘The Kang Dynasty’

Avengers: The Kang Dynasty is not any extra

A brand new report claims that with the current firing of Jonathan Majors, the actor who had performed the villainous Kang the Conqueror in Loki and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Marvel has quietly refocused the movie — and altered its title. When it opens in theaters in a couple of years it can not be Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. At this level, you may as nicely simply check with it as Avengers 5.

This is an enormous change of course for Marvel, a studio whose complete factor is the epic storylines they weave between films and exhibits for years at a time. They teased Thanos on the very finish of The Avengers in 2012, and didn’t pay him off totally till Avengers: Infinity War in 2018.

Marvel had comparable plans in thoughts for Majors and Kang, a time-traveling warlord from the longer term who has lengthy been one of many comedian guide Avengers’ most harmful foes. After his introduction in Loki and Quantumania, Kang would have gotten his personal headline movie — The Kang Dynasty — which might have additionally led right into a sequel: Avengers: Secret Wars. 

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Majors’ conviction final yr fully modified these plans. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel is now “rewriting those movies, which will now either minimize the character or excise him entirely.”

They added…

The first of the brand new Avengers films, due out in 2026, was initially titled Avengers: The Kang Dynasty however will probably be getting a brand new title to take away the character’s title, although sources say that even earlier than Majors’ conviction, the studio was making strikes to reduce the character after Quantumania underperformed, grossing $476 million.

In hindsight, it’s potential we might look again on all of those adjustments as a blessing in disguise. Quantumania wasn’t nice, and it definitely didn’t make anybody assume that Majors’ Kang was the man they wished to comply with by means of a minimum of two extra blockbusters. This reset provides them the possibility to go in a special and doubtlessly higher course, and to refocus on movies like The Fantastic Four, with that nice solid of Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.

Avengers 5 — no matter it’s lastly referred to as — is at the moment scheduled to open in theaters on May 1, 2026. The solely movie Marvel at the moment has on its 2024 launch calendar is Deadpool & Wolverine, which is due in theaters on the finish of July.