Doctor Doom
Victor von Doom
Movie · Phase 6
Avengers: Secret Wars
2027
CONFIRMED: Marvel has dated Avengers: Secret Wars for 17 December 2027, with Anthony and Joe Russo directing and Michael Waldron writing. Robert Downey Jr. is the only cast member Marvel has publicly…
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The story
CONFIRMED: Marvel has dated Avengers: Secret Wars for 17 December 2027, with Anthony and Joe Russo directing and Michael Waldron writing. Robert Downey Jr. is the only cast member Marvel has publicly attached. The Russos have confirmed the film is in pre-production while Doomsday's post-production continues, and Kevin Feige has described it as the conclusion of the Multiverse Saga and a reset point for what follows.
REPORTED, NOT CONFIRMED: Everything about the plot is speculation. Reporting has consistently suggested the film will draw on Jonathan Hickman's 2015 Secret Wars, in which colliding universes are salvaged into a patchwork Battleworld ruled by Doom, but Marvel has confirmed no such structure. Filming is expected to begin in 2027 following Doomsday's release; no full cast, runtime or story detail has been announced, and scooper claims about which characters are retired here should be treated as rumour.
Key facts
- Release date
- 17 Dec 2027
- Status
- Announced
- Phase
- Phase 6
- Saga
- The Multiverse Saga
- Director
- Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
- Writers
- Michael Waldron
- Timeline placement
- Expected directly after Avengers: Doomsday, concluding the Multiverse Saga
Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Robert Downey Jr. | Victor von Doom / Doctor Doom |
Characters
Easter eggs
- The title points to two separate comic events: Jim Shooter's 1984 Secret Wars, where a cosmic entity abducts heroes to a constructed planet, and Jonathan Hickman's 2015 version, where Doom rules the salvaged Battleworld as a god.
- Doctor Doom being the only confirmed cast member mirrors the 2015 comic, where Doom is both antagonist and the reason anything survives at all.
- Marvel has positioned the film as a hard reset, the same function the 2015 comic served in relaunching Marvel's publishing line.
- The incursion mechanic named in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and central to Doomsday comes from the Hickman Avengers run that led into Secret Wars.
- It will be the Russo brothers' fourth Avengers film, matching their Infinity War and Endgame back-to-back structure with Doomsday.
Trivia
- The film was originally dated 7 May 2027 before Marvel moved it to 17 December 2027, keeping the Russos' two-part structure a year apart.
- Michael Waldron is writing both Doomsday and Secret Wars, mirroring the Markus and McFeely arrangement on Infinity War and Endgame.
- The Russos publicly confirmed in 2026 that Secret Wars is in pre-production while Doomsday is still being finished.
- Kevin Feige has described the film as the end of the Multiverse Saga, with a creative and narrative reset following it.
- Marvel's announced 2028 slate — including a dated 15 December 2028 X-Men film — is understood to sit after Secret Wars, which is why casting for it has stayed quiet.
- It is the smallest publicly known cast list of any announced Avengers film at this stage of production, which Marvel appears to be doing deliberately.
Reviews
The MarvelGossips verdict
Unreleased and, at this stage, largely unwritten in public. The pressure on it is enormous: it has to justify four years of multiverse groundwork, retire an unclear number of characters and hand the franchise to a rebooted X-Men. Marvel's silence about the cast is either admirable discipline or a sign that the plan is still moving.
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Frequently asked
When is Avengers: Secret Wars released?
17 December 2027, confirmed on marvel.com. It was previously dated 7 May 2027 before Marvel shifted it to a holiday release, one year after Doomsday.
Is Secret Wars based on the 1984 or 2015 comic?
Marvel has not said. Reporting has heavily favoured Jonathan Hickman's 2015 Battleworld version because of Doom's centrality, but no story structure has been confirmed and both events share the title.
Who is confirmed in the cast?
Only Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom. Marvel has attached no other actor publicly as of July 2026, and every reported returning hero is unconfirmed.
Will Secret Wars end the MCU as we know it?
Kevin Feige has described it as the conclusion of the Multiverse Saga and the point at which the franchise resets, with the X-Men film dated December 2028 expected to follow. What 'reset' means in practice has not been explained.