By all rights, the Russo brothers ought to be up there with the likes of Christopher Nolan and James Cameron in that rare pantheon of film-makers who can score incendiary box office results while keeping the critics happy. They are only the third set of directors to achieve a $2bn global gross (with 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War) after James Cameron and JJ Abrams. They managed to repeat the achievement with the following year’s Avengers: Endgame. And since they stopped making films for Marvel five years ago, the studio has entered a period of relative decline.
Hardly surprising, then, that reports suggest the Russos might be back for another crack at the Avengers. The Hollywood Reporter suggests the duo are in early talks to helm the two films that were once monikered Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars, and are theoretically due in cinemas for 2026 and 2027.
