Selection experiences that Marvel is spending $80 million to lure the Russos again to direct Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, the 2 movies that may carry the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s ongoing Multiverse Saga to a detailed. Each movies are additionally set to be produced by the Russo’s AGBO outfit slightly than Marvel’s typical in-house manufacturing group and can reportedly start capturing in London slightly than Atlanta, Georgia, the place Avengers: Infinity Struggle and Endgame each filmed.
Marvel can be stated to be spending “considerably extra” on Downey’s payday to see him rejoin the MCU as Physician Doom slightly than Iron Man — a twist that has some comics precedent but additionally appears to be an emergency pivot in response to Marvel’s now-scrapped plans to go all in on Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror.
RDJ, whose efficiency as Tony Stark kicked off the MCU, has commanded sizable Marvel salaries up to now that spoke to the studio’s dedication to constructing the cinematic franchise round him. That strategy paid off for Marvel within the MCU’s early days because the Infinity Saga movies reliably broke box-office information. Nevertheless it’s additionally a part of how the studio has wound up in its present period of tasks that really feel devoid of correctly cultivated gravitational facilities.