Marvel Confirms Russo Brothers To Direct 'Avengers: Infinity War Parts 1 And 2'

Marvel Confirms Russo Brothers To Direct ‘Avengers: Infinity War Parts 1 And 2’

Update: Marvel has now confirmed this story from March 23.Read the press release here. Original story follows.

Big news coming out of Marvel Studios.Badass Digestreports thatAnthony and Joe Russohave just closed their deal to directAvengers: Infinity War Parts 1 and 2. They’re about to go into production onCaptain America: Civil Warand will do back to backAvengersfilms after that. The latter set of films are scheduled for release in May 2018 and May 2019, as the handy image above shows.

But where does that leaveSpider-ManandGhostbusters, two properties the Russos have also been mentioned for? We’ll discuss those, and theAvengers Infinity Wardirectors below.

Badass Digestbroke theAvengers Infinity Wardirectors news. They said to expect an announcement soon and have a very good track record when it comes to superhero scoops.

We’d heard the Russos were clamoring to doAvengers 3 and 4afterCivil Warand that Marvel loved the idea. In fact, everyone was pretty much certain that they would take over, especially since Joss Whedon is done with directingAvengersmovies afterAge of Ultron.

However, things became murky whenSpider-Man– a franchise the Russos adore –  came back into play for Marvel. Then, we again wondered what would happen when the Russos were attached to a newGhostbustersmovie with Channing Tatum. You’d think this deal would almost certainly knock them out of those Sony projects, but maybe not.

InInfinity Warthey still get to play with Spider-Man. So that’s one thing. And though BAD reports filming onAvengerswill go back to back in 2016 and 2017, those dates are very early for a 2018 and 2019 release date. If Sony does want them to makeGhostbustersfor 2017, it’s not impossible. They could shoot that while in post onCaptain America: Civil War, or directly after, then jump right intoAvengers: Infinity War. It would basically mean about four years of non-stop work for the brothers but it’s possible. That’s just speculation, however.

There are still no writers attached toAvengers: Infinity War, but apparently Marvel is courtingCaptain AmericawritersChristopher MarkusandStephen McFeely, who’ve become the go to duo.

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