Avengers: Secret Wars has found its writer in Michael Waldron, the screenwriter who penned the script for Marvel Studios' Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and served as head writer for Tom Hiddleston's Loki series.
Avengers: Secret Wars is set to follow Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, which is scheduled to release in May 2025. Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton had already been tapped to helm The Kang Dynasty from a script by Ant-Man 3 writer Jeff Loveness, but Secret Wars will have a director of its own, who has yet to be named.
Deadline reports that meetings to select a writer for Avengers: Secret Wars were held last month, with Waldron emerging as the frontrunner among multiple candidates. Waldron was ultimately chosen because of the trust Marvel Studios has in him after collaborating with the writer on the aforementioned Loki series and Doctor Strange sequel. Though Secret Wars will have its own director, it is assumed that whoever is chosen, along with Waldron, will be in touch with Cretton and Loveness as both Avengers: Secret Wars and The Kang Dynasty are in development.
Waldron is currently serving as an executive producer on Marvel Studios' Loki season 2, which began production earlier in summer 2022. However, Waldron's working relationship with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige extends beyond the MCU, as he is also developing and writing Feige's Star Wars film for Lucasfilm. Marvel Studios reportedly had no comment on news of Waldron being tapped to write Avengers: Secret Wars.
While Avengers: Secret Wars was rumored to be on Marvel Studios' slate for some time, Feige officially confirmed the film was in development during Marve Studios' Hall H presentation at San Diego Comic-Con 2022. Of course, few story details were provided then and that remains true even now.
That said, Avengers: Secret Wars will likely adapt the comic book storyline of the same name, which involves the multiverse colliding and bringing together Marvel heroes from different universes. While the story is a little more complicated than that, fans can expect the Secret Wars film to take some creative liberties with the source material, much like how Avengers: Infinity War omitted story beats and characters from the comics.
Avengers: Secret Wars is scheduled to be released in theaters on November 8, 2025.
Source: Deadline