{"id":24086,"date":"2024-06-05T17:23:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T21:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=24086"},"modified":"2024-06-05T17:32:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T21:32:04","slug":"shawn-levy-reported-in-talks-to-direct-new-avengers-film-for-mcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=24086","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Levy Reported in Talks to Direct New &#8216;Avengers&#8217; film for MCU"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a9Photo by Sergei Bachlakov\/ABC &#8211; \u00a9 2016 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\r\n<p>According to press reports, Canadian director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0506613\/\">Shawn Levy<\/a> is being seriously considered to direct Marvel Studios\u2019 next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0848228\/\"><em><strong>Avengers<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>film, the fifth in the series. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2308774\/\">Destin Daniel Cretton<\/a> had originally been attached to the project, but he left in November of 2023 to work on his <em><strong>Shang-Chi<\/strong><\/em> sequel.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/06\/shawn-levy-avengers-movie-directing-talks-1235958885\/\"><em>Deadline<\/em> <\/a>reported this week that Levy is reviewing the script by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5642271\/\">Michael Waldron<\/a> but hasn\u2019t yet given a definitive answer about whether he will take on the job. Meanwhile, Marvel has said that it\u2019s talking with other candidates in case Levy turns down the offer. Levy is also currently involved in the development of a new <em><strong>Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> film.<br \/><br \/>Levy, who is the founder of 21 Laps Entertainment, is arguably best known as the director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0477347\/\"><strong><em>Night at the Museum<\/em><\/strong><\/a> film franchise. He recently directed the soon-to-be-released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6263850\/\"><em><strong>Deadpool &amp; Wolverine<\/strong><\/em><\/a> for Marvel and also serves as a director and executive producer of the final season of <strong>Stranger Things<\/strong>. His other directorial credentials include <em><strong>The Adam Project, Big Fat Liar, Cheaper by the Dozen, Free Guy, The Internship, Just Married,<\/strong><\/em> the <em><strong>Pink Panther<\/strong><\/em> reboot, and <em><strong>Real Steal<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\r\n<p><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Marvel has plans to shoot the new <em><strong>Avengers<\/strong> <\/em>project in 2025, with more than five dozen MCU actors reprising their roles. According to press reports, the script had to be written to account for the departure of Jonathan Majors from the role of the villainous Kang the Conqueror. It\u2019s not yet known whether Kang will be replaced by another actor or written out of the script altogether.<br \/><br \/><em><strong>The Avengers<\/strong><\/em> are a team of fictional superheroes based on the Marvel Comics characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963. Plans for the first film in the series were announced in 2005, and the four films in the franchise (<em><strong>The Avengers, Age of Ultron, Infinity War,<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Endgame<\/strong><\/em>) have since generated some $7.7 billion in box office revenues.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out more of Edward\u2019s articles.<\/a><br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9Photo by Sergei Bachlakov\/ABC &#8211; \u00a9 2016 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. According to press reports, Canadian director Shawn Levy is being seriously considered to direct Marvel Studios\u2019 next Avengers film, the fifth in the series. Destin Daniel Cretton had originally been attached to the project, but he left in November of 2023&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,20471],"tags":[2163,632,2297,16429,871,6064,22546,1807],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shawn Levy reported in talks to direct new &#039;Avengers&#039; film for MCU<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"According to press reports, Canadian director Shawn Levy is being seriously considered to direct Marvel Studios\u2019 next Avengers film.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=24086\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shawn Levy reported in talks to direct new &#039;Avengers&#039; 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