Rumor: Writer Jeff Loveness Removed From 'Avengers: The Kang Dynasty' Film Because Marvel Is Moving In Another Direction

A new rumor claims that writer Jeff Loveness was removed from Avengers: The Kang Dynasty because Marvel Studios will be taking the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a different direction from Kang the Conqueror.

Back in May following the box office flop of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, a film written by Loveness, it was reported that Loveness was no longer working on Avengers: Kang Dynasty.

Scooper Jeff Sneider reported, “RUMOR: Hearing that screenwriter Jeff Loveness is off AVENGERS: KANG DYNASTY… and that he fell off prior to the strike.”

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Now, a new rumor claims that Loveness is off the film and no longer working for Marvel because Marvel was moving in a different direction with Kang the Conqueror.

Joanna Robinson on the House of R podcast detailed, “We saw the Quantumania post-credits where Kang is everywhere. But I actually heard from someone recently. I was asking about– So the screenwriter Jeff Loveness, who wrote Quantumania, was supposed to write Kang Dynasty. And then it sort of came out that he was no longer [attached to the film]. Anyway, I had it confirmed to me he’s no longer working for Marvel.”

She added, “And that I asked the person why, and they said the reason why was that his stuff, he was all wrapped up in this Kang storyline and that they are likely going to be moving away from that.”

Robinson then hedged, “No official announcement that Avengers: Kang Dynasty will now officially be called Doom’s Dystopia or whatever. We don’t know exactly what they are going to do. But I think that this just gives them the perfect opportunity to be done if they want to be.”

The idea that Marvel might scrap their Kang plans is not out of the realm possibility. Despite Marvel Studios hyping up Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania by introducing the next Thanos-level threat in Kang the Conqueror, the film failed at the box office only bringing in $214.5 million domestically and another $249.1 million internationally for a global total of $463.6 million.

The film had an estimated budget of $200 million, which means the film needed to make at least $500 million to cover the box office split with theaters as well as their own marketing and production budgets.

Not only did their big debut of Kang the Conqueror fall on its face at the box office, but actor Jonathan Majors, who portrayed Kang the Conqueror in the film, has been embroiled in a criminal scandal where he is accused of assault against an ex-girlfriend.

In fact, a recent report from Variety’s Tatiana Siegel detailed that Marvel Studios executives held a meeting at Palm Springs to discuss backup plans and a pivot from Kang the Conqueror to Dr. Doom.

One of Siegel’s sources even posited, “Marvel is truly f***ed with the whole Kang angle. And they haven’t had an opportunity to rewrite until very recently [because of the WGA strike]. But I don’t see a path to how they move forward with him.”