Joining Robert Downey Jr. as Victor von Doom, a.k.a. Doctor Doom, in Avengers: Doomsday is an assemble of A-list Marvel talent from across the cinematic universe.
As production on the next MCU event film kicks off this week, the studio confirmed returning stars over the course of a livestream video that slowly revealed the actors’ chairs on set. Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Paul Rudd (Ant-Man), Vanessa Kirby (Sue Storm/Invisible Woman), Anthony Mackie (Sam Wilson/the new Captain America), Sebastian Stan (Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier), Letitia Wright (Shuri/the new Black Panther), Wyatt Russell (John Walker/U.S. Agent), Tenoch Huerta Mejia (Namor the Submariner), and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Ben Grimm/The Thing) were announced within the first two hours of the livestream.
Simu Liu (Shang-Chi), Florence Pugh (Yelena) and Kelsey Grammer (Beast/Hank McCoy) were confirmed later on.
More casting continues to be revealed on Wednesday.
Some of these faces we haven’t technically met yet outside of a trailers. For instance, Kirby and Moss-Bachrach won’t debut as their characters until this summer’s Fantastic Four: First Steps. Mejia was one of the bigger surprise announcements, having debuted as the prime antagonist in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
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Another big surprise was Grammer, who portrayed Beast in the original Fox-owned X-Men movie franchise, but has since formally been inducted into Disney’s MCU with a cameo appearance in a post-credits scene tagged onto The Marvels. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige confirmed this next phase of the franchise would introduce more X-Men characters and that the story of Avengers: Secret Wars “really leads us into a new age of mutants and of the X-Men.”
Joe and Anthony Russo, who gave Marvel some of their biggest films to date (also in terms of box office returns), are back at the helm of Avengers: Doomsday and the follow up movie, Avengers: Secret Wars. Doomsday will first hit May 1, 2026, and Secret Wars will debut May 7, 2027.
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