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- Joe and Anthony Russo “won’t be ready to do anything with Marvel until the end of the decade.”
- The Russos made 4 motion pictures for Marvel, together with “Avengers: Endgame.”
- The directors beforehand instructed Insider they had no plans to return, however appeared open to it.
Don’t count on “Avengers: Endgame” directors Joe and Anthony Russo to return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe any time quickly.
The filmmaking brothers instructed Variety in a narrative revealed Wednesday that they “won’t be ready to do anything with Marvel until the end of the decade.” The Russos have been equally reserved in the previous about acknowledging any potential future with Marvel, although they’ve appeared open to it.
“We don’t currently have any plans to do anything more with Marvel, but that doesn’t mean at some point in the future — it could come up,” Anthony told Insider in July.
The duo made 4 motion pictures for Marvel — 2014’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” 2016’s “Captain America: Civil War,” 2018’s “Avengers: Infinity War,” after which “Endgame” in 2019.
“Endgame” is the second highest-grossing film of all time behind “Avatar,” which it briefly topped at the international field workplace, however was dethroned after “Avatar” was re-released final yr in China.
Needless to say, the brothers discovered immense success with the MCU, however they’ve since been busy with different high-profile, big-budget tasks with their manufacturing firm AGBO.
Their Netflix motion film “The Gray Man” turned the streamer’s fourth-biggest film ever. And they’re growing a spy sequence known as “Citadel” for Amazon, which can launch worldwide spinoffs set in native markets.
The sequence reportedly cost $200 million to make, thanks to pandemic-related manufacturing prices.
Meanwhile, Marvel is inching in the direction of “Avengers: Secret Wars,” which can conclude its present “Multiverse Saga,” in 2026. The Russos instructed Deadline in July, shortly earlier than the movie was formally introduced, that making a “Secret Wars” film could be a “massive undertaking.”
“It would be bigger than ‘Infinity War’ and ‘Endgame,'” Joe stated. “But it’s a massive undertaking. Those two movies were very hard to make.”
