Avengers: Doomsday, the fifth Avengers film from Marvel Studios, and the first of a two-part arc culminating in Secret Wars, starts shooting in the spring for a May 2026 release date.

Polygon got a chance to talk with North in the lead-up to his first stint as lead writer of a big Marvel crossover event, One World Under Doom — a nine-issue story in which Doctor Doom has already taken over the world on the first page, and it’s up to the Avengers and the Fantastic Four to figure out how he did it, and how to undo it.

A social media post reveals the number of times MCU characters have been featured between the last and next Avengers sequels.