Avengers: Secret Wars Finds Writer In Loki And Doctor Strange 2 Scribe

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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'sLoki series.

Avengers: Secret Wars is set to followAvengers: 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.

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Deadline reports that meetings to select a writer forAvengers: 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. ThoughSecret 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'sStar 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