‘Avengers: The Kang Dynasty’: Destin Daniel Cretton To Direct Marvel Pic

Justin Kroll
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Only days after its massive Comic-Con Hall H presentation, Marvel is moving fast to attach a director to one of its tentpole titles. The studio has confirmed to Deadline that Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings helmer Destin Daniel Cretton has been tapped to direct Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced over the weekend that that the film was in development, and the studio will now look to add a writer to the project as meetings are currently underway.

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The pic arrives on May 2, 2025, with another Avengers movie, Avengers: Secret Wars, hitting on November 7, 2025.

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Not much is known about the sequel other than it will focus on Marvel’s new main villain, Kang (Jonathan Majors), who is expected to play a major role in this new phase of movies culminating in the massive Avengers pics.

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Cretton is no stranger to Marvel, having helmed last year’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings for the studio. The film grossed $432 million worldwide, leading to Cretton signing an overall deal with Marvel. As part of that, he is developing with Andrew Guest — a writer-producer on comedies such as Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Community — a live-action series featuring Wonder Man that he will exec produce and possibly direct an episode or more. He also has a Shang-Chi sequel in the works.

Marvel has also confirmed that Bassam Tariq is directing Blade , Julius Onah is directing Captain America: New World Order, and Jake Schreier is directing Thunderbolts.

Cretton is repped by WME, Pangea Media and Goodman Genow. The Hollywood Reporter first reported the news today.

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