Why Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars were postponed

Disney takes an assumed risk by shifting its two blockbusters and leaving the successful niche at the end of April …

Marvel made a decision fraught with consequences this week by choosing to repel the outings ofAvengers: Doomsday and ofAvengers: Secret Wars.

The two blockbusters will not be released at the end of April 2026, a niche that had largely brought luck in the Avengers since Infinity War And Endgam both arrived on our screens in the last week of April (2018 and 2019). Instead, Avengers: Doomsday will now be released on December 18, 2026, followed by Avengers: Secret Wars December 17, 2027.

And according to Deadlineit would be a strategic decision on the part of the studio, more linked to internal planning and box office considerations than to production delays.

Underwentity, the shooting that started a few weeks ago in London takes its course as planned.

But Disney would like to take its time, the time required to give life to what promises to be two of the biggest blockbusters ever made. A biblical company. So this calendar modification would allow the studio to take more time to execute the very ambitious creative vision of the Russo. Marvel will therefore have 7 more months to achieve an exciting result.

And the choice of new dates owes nothing to chance :. This positioning on the holiday season is inspired by the colossal success of Spider-Man: No Way Homereleased in December 2021 and having come close to the 2 billion dollars in global revenue. Disney therefore hopes to reiterate this commercial performance by capitalizing on a a priori output window favorable to Marvel.

Casting side, Avengers: Doomsday Already aligns an impressive number of stars from the Marvel universe. We will find there Chris Hemsworth,, Vanessa Kirby in the role of Sue Storm alias the invisible woman, Anthony Mackie in new Captain America, Sebastian Stan In Bucky Barnes/Winter soldier, Letitia Wright in the shoes of Shuri alias Black Panther, and Paul Rudd Always faithful to Ant-Man. The film will also count on Wyatt Russell (US agent), Tenoch Huerta (Namor), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The thing/Ben Grimm), Simu liu (Shang-chi), Florence Pugh (Yelena Belova), Kelsey Grammer (Dr. Hank McCoy alias Le Fauve), Lewis Pullman (Bob/Sentry), Danny Ramirez (Joaquin Torres/Falcon), Joseph Quinn (Johnny Storm/Human Torch), David Harbor (Red Guardian), Winston Duke (M’Baku), Hannah John-Kamed (Ava Starr/Ghost) and Tom Hiddleston (Loki).

The X-Men franchise will also be in the spotlight with the return of emblematic figures embodied by Patrick Stewart (Charles Xavier), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Alan Cumming (Diablo), Rebecca Romijn (Mystical), James Marsden (Cyclops) and Channing Tatum (Gambit), whose arrival in the MCU is finally confirmed. Another weight addition: Pedro Pascal will play Reed Richards, alias Mr. Fantastic.