Details from Marvel’s Scrapped Avengers Film Reveal One of the Planned Leads

“In the original plan for Avengers 5, then called Kang Dynasty, Shang-Chi would’ve been one of the film’s main leads. A lot’s changed since then; Avengers 5 was meant to focus on Kang the Conqueror, but Marvel has since completely retooled the film to introduce Victor Von Doom.”

-Inverse

To fans who have followed the project since it was first announced at SDCC ’22, the notion that Shang-Chi was intended to be one of the film’s leads shouldn’t be too shocking. Destin Daniel Cretton, who helmed Shang-Chi and the Legend of The Ten Rings, was originally set to direct Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and it was often theorized that Shang-Chi’s rings–along with Kamala Khan’s bangle–might play a big role in taking on Kang the Conqueror. However, as things began to fall apart around the project, Cretton stepped away as director of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty as writer Michael Waldron came aboard to retool the script. Despite plans to recast the role of Kang after Jonathan Majors was fired following his very public legal issues, the studio made the decision to move in a different direction earlier this year, removing the subtitle from the film and keeping the new plan under wraps until the big Hall H reveal at SDCC ’24.

Though no word has come down the pipe on what to expect from writer Stephen McFeely‘s script for the newly announced Avengers: Doomsday, it seems unlikely that the same group of characters intended to lead the charge in The Kang Dynasty will remain at the center of the new project.

Source: Inverse