MCU Reportedly Planned a Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield Reunion for Avengers The Kang Dynasty
A viral alleged MCU script claims the scrapped Avengers: The Kang Dynasty—retooled into Avengers: Doomsday—nearly brought back Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parkers for a multiversal showdown.
Here we go again: a supposed MCU script is bouncing around online, and it claims the scrapped Avengers: The Kang Dynasty would have brought back Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield as multiversal heavyweights alongside Tom Holland. It is a rumor, not a confirmation. Still, it is packed with very nerdy planning details, so let me break it down.
The rumor in one breath
Per the often-right-but-still-a-scooper account MyTimeToShineHello on X, Marvel had a version of The Kang Dynasty where the TVA (yep, the Loki bureaucracy) starts rounding up special figures called Anchor Beings from across the Multiverse to push back the Council of Kangs. In that plan, Maguire and Garfield were the Anchors for their universes, and Tom Holland was the Anchor for Earth-616.
The TVA believed only Anchor Beings could beat the Council of Kangs, so they recruited them: Holland on 616, with Maguire and Garfield each anchoring their own realities.
Who was in the mix and what the movie was building toward
- The film was designed to be smaller than Secret Wars, with a tighter focus on Holland, Maguire, Garfield, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, and other Anchors like Nic Cage as Ghost Rider.
- The twist: this team-up was never meant to actually win. The plan allegedly had them fail, the Multiverse collapse, and Kang stitch together Battleworld.
- That Battleworld ending would set the table for Avengers: Secret Wars, where MCU regulars and more multiversal cameos would collide.
Why we did not get this version
The original road map had Kang as the big bad across the final two Avengers movies, with Jonathan Majors as the face of it. After Majors was convicted on charges related to assault and harassment and subsequently fired from the MCU, Marvel hit the brakes. The pivot, per widespread reporting, is to make Doctor Doom the overarching threat and retitle the fifth film Avengers: Doomsday.
How believable is this?
Feasible? Sure. The TVA, the Council of Kangs, and multiverse cameos are all live wires in the current MCU. And the idea of using a smaller movie to load the slingshot for Secret Wars makes sense. But this is still a leaked-script rumor from a semi-reliable scooper. Treat it like a pitch that almost happened, not a documentary.
The reaction so far
Fans are torn, which tracks. Some people love the idea of keeping Maguire, Garfield, Jackman, and Nic Cage in play and wish Marvel would still use pieces of it. Others do not buy the whole Anchor Being concept at all, arguing that hinging entire universes on one person is wobbly logic. A few think this rumored plan sounds better than the studio leaning on more Steve Rogers nostalgia. Some dunked on it as basically Spider-Man 4 with extra steps. One recurring gripe: if Scott Lang already beat a Kang variant, why would three Spider-Men lose? Another common complaint: if you are fighting Kangs, why bench heavy magic hitters like Doctor Strange, Scarlet Witch, or even Loki for a squad of mostly street-level heroes?
Where things stand now
Regardless of what that Kang Dynasty draft said, Marvel has moved on. Avengers: Doomsday is the current title, Doctor Doom is widely expected to be the new ultimate threat, and the release date is set for December 18, 2026. If any of this Anchor stuff survives into the new plan, we will find out soon enough. Until then: fun rumor, salt required.