Maybe trying to show that reviews of its field workplace demise have been enormously exaggerated, Marvel on Wednesday introduced main casting information for its upcoming Avengers sequel that each flex the ability of its historical past and set it up for the longer term.
A significant part to their plan: The return of characters and actors from the unique X-Males franchise, a Marvel property that was below the twentieth Century Fox banner earlier than Disney bought that studio in 2019.
The Avengers: Doomsday forged now contains Sir Patrick Stewart, who has portrayed Professor X in a number of X-Males motion pictures, Sir Ian McKellen as adversary Magneto, James Marsden as Cyclops, Rebecca Romijn as Mystique and Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler.
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All of those actors final appeared collectively in 2003’s beloved sequel X2: X-Males United.
Kelsey Grammer, who famously performed Beast in 2006’s X-Males: The Final Stand and confirmed up in a post-credits scene in 2023’s The Marvels, will even seem, Marvel revealed.
The jam-packed forged for Doomsday – set to premiere in theaters in 2026 – was introduced through livestream over the course of roughly 5 hours.
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Becoming a member of the X alums are Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) mainstays Chris Hemsworth, who has performed Thor since 2011, Anthony Mackie as Captain America, Sebastian Stan as The Winter Soldier, Paul Rudd as Ant-Man, and Simu Liu, who performed Shang-Chi in his 2021 standalone movie.
Later within the livestream, it was introduced that Tom Hiddleston – who has performed Loki in each the MCU and in his namesake Disney+ sequence – will even be featured in Doomsday, as will Channing Tatum, who portrayed X-Man Gambit in an prolonged (and regarded as jokey one-off) cameo in final summer season’s Deadpool & Wolverine.
Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent, David Harbour as Crimson Guardian, Tenoch Huerta Mejía as Namor and Letitia Wright as Shuri – from the Black Panther and former Avengers movies – will even make appearances, Marvel introduced.
Florence Pugh can also be set to return as Yelena Belova, after her debut in 2021’s Black Widow and following this spring’s Thunderbolts*.
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Robert Downey Jr. is rarely returning to the Marvel franchise
Alums will not have all of the enjoyable. All 4 actors set to be launched on this summer season’s Implausible 4: First Steps – Pedro Pascal, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Vanessa Kirby and Joseph Quinn – have been additionally introduced as a part of the Doomsday mega-cast.
Whereas many of those actors have loved earlier appearances within the MCU or different Marvel properties, it stays unclear how substantive their roles might be within the new movie, and going ahead.
Notable absences from the superheroic lineup embody Scarlett Johansson – who final week sounded off on the dim outlook of her return to the MCU – together with Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch, Benedict Cumberbatch’s Dr. Unusual and Mark Ruffalo’s fan-favorite Hulk.
The Avengers’ last official team-up was in 2019, for the record-breaking Endgame, which noticed each the defeat of intergalactic supervillain Thanos (Josh Brolin) and the loss of life of flagship MCU superhero Iron Man/Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.).
Nonetheless, it was revealed final 12 months that Downey Jr. might be again for this subsequent go-round, however because the titular baddie Dr. Doom. On the finish of Wednesday’s livestream, Downey Jr. appeared and sat in a director’s chair along with his identify on it, earlier than the stream concluded.
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