After cameoing at the end of The Avengers, getting slightly more screen time in Guardians of the Galaxy, and then cameoing once more in Avengers: Age of Ultron, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Thanos finally came to the forefront in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. The latter movie saw two different versions of the Mad Titan dying, but rumors have nevertheless persisted that we’ll see Josh Brolin play him again. Now there’s yet another rumor about Thanos coming back for an upcoming Marvel movie, and if this is true, I hope it means one of the character’s greatest showdowns from the comics is being adapted for the MCU.
Scooper Daniel Richtman (via ComicBookMovie) claims that Brolin is set to reprise Thanos in Avengers: Secret Wars, the final movie in the MCU’s Multiverse Saga. This would mark the actor’s sixth time portraying the character, because in addition to all of the aforementioned movies except The Avengers, he also voiced alternate versions of Thanos in the Disney+ subscription-exclusive animated series What If… ? Taking part in Secret Wars would also reunite him with directors Joe and Anthony Russo, as well as Robert Downey Jr., whose version of Tony Stark clashed with Thanos in Infinity War and Endgame.
