The Latest Avengers: Secret Wars Announcement Is Concerning

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The MCU’s next saga-capping ensemble epic is starting to take shape as Marvel Studios has tapped Michael Waldron to write the screenplay for Avengers: Secret Wars. As the head writer of the first season of Loki and the scribe behind Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Waldron is no stranger to translating Marvel characters to the screen. But his work on the latter project has some fans worried that the ambitious multiversal storytelling of Secret Wars will suffer from the same problems that dragged down Multiverse of Madness.

When Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange sequel arrived in theaters earlier this year, it was praised for many aspects: the performances, the visuals, Danny Elfman’s oom-pah musical score. Just about the only thing in the movie that fans and critics didn’t like was the screenplay. There are no clear internal conflicts, so the audience has nothing to relate to beyond the characters’ standard external goals (escape the witch, protect the kid, etc.), and huge stretches of the film are bogged down in on-the-nose exposition explaining concepts like “dream-walking.” Waldron included plenty of fun Easter eggs and spectacular action beats, but struggled to thread a cohesive narrative through it all.

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The movie has its fair share of memorable individual set-pieces like the Illuminati massacre and the musical note fight, but its emotional storytelling is seriously lacking. It begs a couple of interesting dramatic questions – like whether or not Strange is truly happy in spite of having saved the universe – but the answers to these questions are relegated to a couple of throwaway dialogue soundbites. Multiverse of Madness has plenty of time for Wanda murdering