Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo have revealed that a Secret Wars movie could tempt them back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
In an interview with BroBible, the Russo brothers explained the reason why they would like to potentially adapt Secret Wars into a big-screen event, as Joe admitted that he was totally gripped by “scale of getting all of the heroes together” when he first read the comic book at the age of “10 or 11.”
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“It was one of the first major books to do that — that was really event-storytelling to me at its finest,” he said. “And what happens when you put all of those personalities together. I also like the idea of villains having to team up with heroes. [Anthony] and I like complicated relationships between heroes and villains, we like villains who believe they’re heroes in their own stories, so it’s all sort of built into this notion of Secret Wars. To execute something on the scale of Infinity War was directly related to the dream of Secret Wars, which is even larger in scale.”
Anthony backed his brother’s comments, as he added that he would also be up for the challenge of a Secret Wars adaptation, saying, “It would be the biggest movie you could possibly imagine, so that’s what really excites us about the story — the ambition of it is even bigger than the ambition of the Infinity Saga.”
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There have been two big installments of the Secret Wars storyline in Marvel Comics; 1984’s original Secret Wars arc by Jim Shooter, Mike Zeck and Bob Layton and 2015’s updated version of Secret Wars by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribić.
The original run was a massive crossover event that saw different superheroes and villains, including the X-Men, transported to Battleworld, while the 2015 run combined Marvel’s classic Earth-616 universe with the Ultimate Universe.
For more on Secret Wars, here are seven things you need to know before reading Marvel’s big event storyline.
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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.
Source: IGN.com The Russo Brothers Explain How Secret Wars Could Inspire MCU Return