Kevin Feige Denies the MCU Will Reboot With Secret Wars, Points to 2015 Comic as 'Nice Roadmap' for the Future

Marvel Studios brag Kevin Feige has confirmed that the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) volition not get a afloat reboot aft Avengers: Secret Wars ties up Phase Six successful 2027 – but helium does person a fewer ideas for wherever to spell next.

The baseball-cap-wearing comic publication movie mastermind teased what's adjacent for Marvel's movie ambitions during a speech with Josh Horowitz of Happy, Sad, Confused. There's been immoderate disorder amongst fans erstwhile it comes to wherever films similar Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars volition permission Earth's mightiest heroes upon their premiere, but Feige didn't mince words erstwhile asked if adjacent year's team-up movie volition present a reboot.

"No," helium said, "but I look to the comics, arsenic I ever do, successful presumption of our storytelling. In some the Secret Wars – but peculiarly the [Jonathan] Hickman Secret Wars from 10 years agone – there's a bully roadmap to wherever we tin go."

Hickman's Secret Wars was published done 2015 and 2016 and tells a multiverse-ending communicative involving heroes and villains from crossed the Marvel universe. It also, apparently, volition assistance usher the ever-expanding MCU aft its instrumentality connected Secret Wars debuts adjacent December.

Longtime MCU watchers weren't definite what the lawsuit could bring to the live-action movie universe, with a reboot being 1 thought that's been connected the minds of many. Feige has danced astir the taxable before, saying successful 2025 that, portion the upcoming X-Men movie volition assistance "reset" the MCU, it won't needfully beryllium a reboot.

"Reboot is simply a scary word," helium told Variety astatine the time. "Reboot tin mean a batch of things to a batch of people. Reset, singular timeline — we’re reasoning on those lines. … X-Men is wherever that volition hap next."

Theories of a imaginable MCU reboot were backed up when, conscionable past month, Doomsday and Secret Wars co-director Joe Russo said this year's Avengers movie would enactment the cinematic beingness "back to signifier zero."

"Look, we were with Rob [Downey Jr.] earlier today," helium told The Hollywood Reporter. "We were some talking astir this conception that we are backmost to signifier zero. This is starting implicit from scratch. We privation to marque definite everybody feels similar this isn’t leaning connected thing from the past."

Despite promising yet different celebrity-filled clash large capable to clang the multiverse, we cognize distressingly small astir Secret Wars truthful far. It was lone contiguous we got to spot a due Doomsday trailer up of its premiere aboriginal this year. With Doctor Doom looking to marque rather the interaction connected the MCU, Secret Wars itself is definite to present fans to a wholly caller section for the superhero universe.

Avengers: Secret Wars premieres December 17, 2027. Before its arrival, we tin inactive look guardant to adjacent week's Spider-Man: Brand New Day, December 18's Avengers: Doomsday, and more.

While we hold for updates, you tin work astir what a caller Doctor Doom poster revealed astir this year's team-up movie. You tin besides spot Feige speech astir Adam Driver's imaginable successful the MCU, arsenic good arsenic what it's been similar to neglect to bring Blade to theaters.

Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).