'Avengers: Secret Wars' Will Not Be Split Into Two Movies, Says Kevin Feige

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has confirmed that Avengers: Secret Wars will not be split into two films. In an interview with journalist Joshua Horowitz, the executive shut down rumors that the next major Avengers event would be released in two parts, saying that “won’t happen in this world.”

Details about Secret Wars are scarce. The next big Avengers release is the film centered on the battle against Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom, which got a trailer this Monday (20).

Everything you need to know about Avengers: Doomsday

The villain of the story in the fifth Avengers film will be Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom, the actor who played the legendary Iron Man in the MCU’s Infinity Saga and is now taking on the role of antagonist. Avengers: Doomsday (Avengers: Doomsday in the original) will be directed by brothers Anthony and Joe Russo (Endgame), with a script by Michael Waldron (Loki) and Stephen McFreely (Endgame).

Marvel has already confirmed the main cast members for the new film, in one of the biggest gatherings of MCU stars ever assembled. Returning from previous Avengers films are: Chris Evans as Steve Rogers, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Anthony Mackie as Captain America, Sebastian Stan as the Winter Soldier, Paul Rudd as Ant-Man, Winston Duke as M’Baku, and Letitia Wright as Shuri/Black Panther.

Among characters introduced after Avengers: Endgame — in Phases 4 and 5 of the MCU — we have Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, Danny Ramirez as Falcon, the entire new Fantastic Four (Pedro Pascal as Mister Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Human Torch, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as the Thing), nearly the entire cast of Thunderbolts* (Florence Pugh as Yelena, Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent, David Harbour as Red Guardian, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, and Lewis Pullman as Bob, Sentry), and Tenoch Huerta as Namor.

In a livestream announcing the cast, there was also the film’s biggest surprise so far: the return of the classic X-Men from the old Fox movies, including Patrick Stewart as Professor X, Ian McKellen as Magneto, James Marsden as Cyclops, Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler, Kelsey Grammer as Beast, Rebecca Romijn as Mystique, and, introduced in Deadpool & Wolverine, Channing Tatum as Gambit.

Avengers: Doomsday opens on December 18, 2026. Meanwhile, its sequel, Secret Wars, is set to arrive a year later, on December 18, 2027.