‘Avengers: Doomsday’: The five-hour plus casting announcement that’s exciting and confusing fans

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'Avengers: Doomsday': The five-hour plus casting announcement that's exciting and confusing fans

An unconventional (and lengthy) announcement… Anticipated names lacking… Some shock inclusions… Marvel’s newest stunt has divided the web.

It’s the 5 hour and half-hour solid announcement which confused and excited followers in equal measure.

As a substitute of bringing the solid of the subsequent Avengers movie onto a stage one after the other, Marvel opted for a dwell social media stunt throughout which the solid was introduced by way of the performers’ on-set chairs. Each quarter-hour, the digital camera panned to a brand new chair, revealing a brand new identify.

Amongst these confirmed for Avengers: Doomsday – out on 1 Might 2026, the primary a part of a diptych with Avengers: Secret Wars – have been franchise veterans like Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Anthony Mackie as Captain America, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes, Letitia Wright as Shuri, Paul Rudd as Ant-Man, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Simu Liu as Shang-Chi and Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova. And the listing continues – scroll down for the complete roll name.

The most important information was that stars from twentieth Century Fox / Marvel’s X-Males saga are coming again, with Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), James Marsden (Cyclops) and Kelsey Grammer (Beast) all signing up for this new epic. As of that wasn’t sufficient on the mutant entrance, Channing Tatum – who we final noticed as Gambit in Deadpool & Wolverine – was additionally there. Nicely, his chair was.

Stewart, 84, performed Professor X within the Fox’s early 2000s X-Males movies and had a cameo in 2022’s Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity, whereas 85-year-old Ian McKellen, performed his arch-nemesis Magneto. Each actors have been ‘changed’ by youthful actors within the 2010s X-Males sequence reboot, and their inclusion has brought about severe fan hypothesis in regards to the route Avengers: Doomsday. The primary idea is that it units up an Avengers vs X-Males showdown within the multiverse, which can see numerous hero factions dealing with off with the intention to attempt to save their respective worlds.

The entire exhausting chair watch – which recalled the misguided stunt HBO orchestrated once they invited followers to look at a dwell broadcast of a block of ice melting all to disclose the beginning date of the seventh season of the present – ended with Robert Downey Jr. Sitting on his chair, as the previous Iron Man actor was introduced as enjoying Physician Doom final yr. He would be the primary risk in each Doomsday and Secret Wars, two of the tentpoles of Marvel’s upcoming Section 6 of its Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Followers have been taken abruptly by this unconventional casting announcement, with many expressing pleasure, boredom and confusion. Certainly, some famous that the reveals have been spoiling the upcoming Thunderbolts* earlier than its launch, on condition that we now know which characters will survive.

“Is there actually any purpose to look at Thunderbolts at this level?!?!” posted one fan on X, whereas one other wrote: “Thrilling however you’re spoiling Thunderbolts!!”

Different followers cried foul when seeing that among the greatest and most anticipated names weren’t among the many names introduced.

There was no point out of Benedict Cumberbatch (Physician Unusual), Brie Larson (Captain Marvel), Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool), Mark Ruffalo (Hulk) and even Tom Holland (Spider-Man).

Nonetheless, Marvel and Disney could possibly be sitting on them for now, planning one other solid reveal nearer to launch date, and even saving them for Secret Wars.

Avengers: Doomsday is about for launch in Might 2026 and would be the first team-up film since 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, which grew to become one of many highest grossing movies of all time.