Avengers: Secret Wars will be inspired by comics from the 1980s and 2010
What will the film speak of? The Russo brothers give some clues …
THE Russo brothers currently work on the diptych Avengers: Doomsday And Avengers: Secret Wars. The details of the intrigue of the two films are still largely kept secret … even if Secret Wars is a title found in Marvel comics.
Originally, Secret Wars was a limited series of 12 numbers published between 1984 and 1985. Created by Jim Shooter, Mike Zeck and Bob Layton, this story sees several characters from the Marvel universe transported in a place called Battleworld, a planet where heroes and villains must compete.
The comic strip saga Secret Wars was treated, a few decades later, to a form of remake. Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribić created a new version of Secret Wars For Marvel Comics, which started in 2015, featuring a new Battleworld, controlled by Doctor Doom, created after a foam-temporal tissue.
So what comics will adapt the Russo brothers ? In a recent interview with Techradar, the filmmakers reveal that they will be inspired by the two:
“Well, we always create our own version of the story and we always use comics as free inspiration. But, you know, I grew up with the first version of Secret Wars (that of the 1980s). This is what made me discover the Marvel comics. The version of Hickman (those of the 2010s) is also fantastic … They are very different from the other in many ways.”
Avengers: Doomsday will be released on April 30, 2026, while Avengers: Secret Wars will follow on May 5, 2027 in France.
