Avengers: Secret Wars, Kang Dynasty won’t bring back the Russo brothers

Marvel Studios revealed the next two Avengers movies — Avengers: The Kang Dynasty Secret Wars: Avengers — at its San Diego Comic-Con panel over the weekend. At the same event, Marvel Studios president, Kevin Feige, confirmed to Deadline that Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo won’t be back to direct 2025’s Avengers double feature.

“They’re not connected to it,” said Feige. “They’ve been very direct about that. They love us, and we love them. We want to do something together, it’s not this.”

Marvel Studios has yet to announce the identity of a director for its next Avengers film.

Joe and Anthony Russo have directed four projects for the MCU already, starting with 2014’s Captain AmericaThe Winter Soldier. The duo helmed the next. Civil War: Captain America before directing both Avengers: Infinity WarAnd its sequel Avengers: Endgame. The brothers’ most recent film, Gray ManLast week, Netflix released the movie “The Founder”

Deadline spoke with the Russos during their premier for Gray ManThe brothers promoted a Secret Wars movie in July. Brothers balked at how big a movie based upon Secret Wars would be, and said it needed to be bigger. Infinity War Endgame.

Joe Russo and Anthony Russo are said to be attached to direct The Electric State next, an adaptation of Simon Stålenhag’s illustrated sci-fi book.

Avengers: The Kang Dynasty Secret Wars: Avengers will cap off Marvel’s Multiverse Saga and phase six of the MCU in 2025.