Shang-Chi Director Destin Daniel Cretton Is Set To Direct ‘Avengers: The Kang Dynasty’

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It’s been only a few days since Marvel Studios officially announced Avengers 5 and Avengers 6, titled Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars, which are set to be a new back-to-back conclusion of The Multiverse Saga of the MCU. And now, the first of those two movies has reportedly found its director, and it’s someone who has experience with working on a superhero movie.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Destin Daniel Cretton, who is best known for directing last year’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, signed to direct Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. What’s interesting is that Daniel Cretton was previously also confirmed to direct the Shang-Chi sequel and an unknown Shang-Chi spin-off series for Disney+. He will certainly have a lot of work at Marvel in the next few years.

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The first two Avengers movies were directed by Joss Whedon, while Infinity War and Endgame were directed by the Russo Brothers. While the fans hoped to see Russos directing upcoming Avengers movies as well, and even Russos said that Avengers: Secret Wars is their dream project, Kevin Feige said that Russos aren’t connected to the upcoming Avengers movies in any way. Still, Daniel Cretton is set to direct Avengers 5, we still don’t know who will direct Avengers 6, for now.

Destin Daniel Cretton directed last year’s MCU movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings starring Simu Liu. The movie was praised for giving something new and fresh to the MCU, and Cretton’s direction was praised, particularly in the fighting scenes. We don’t know how Cretton will handle the next Avengers movie, which is definitely and lot bigger and more ambitious project than Shang-Chi, but his previous work in the MCU is giving us hope that another great and epic Avengers movie is in front of us.

Avengers: The Kang Dynasty is set to be released on May 2, 2025!

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.