Deadpool & Wolverine isn’t even out yet, but Marvel seems to be sure of it enough that it’s reportedly considering director Shawn Levy to helm Avengers 5.
We’re still a little over a month away until Deadpool & Wolverine hits theatres, and with only a couple of trailers to go off of, it’s pretty impossible to tell how it might be received. It’s Marvel’s first big film of the year, and with the MCU struggling in recent years, there’s obviously a lot of expectations surrounding the film. But, that hasn’t stopped Marvel considering attaching Levy to take the director’s chair in the next Avengers movie. According to Deadline, Marvel and Levy are currently in early conversations over Avengers 5, which was meant to be Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, but reports earlier this year seemed to suggest Marvel was moving away from Kang due to Jonathon Majors’ assault conviction.
Deadline claims that Levy does have the latest screenplay from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness writer Michael Waldron, but its sources say he hasn’t yet given an answer as to whether he’ll take the film on. Marvel is also apparently meeting with other directors while they wait for Levy to make a decision. As noted by Deadline, it’s unclear whether he’ll take the job or not, as he’s expected to be heavily involved in the final season of Stranger Things as both a director and executive producer, and he is meant to be making a Star Wars film too.
