The longest Marvel movie has a execution time of just over 3 hours. On Wednesday, the study easily exceeded that duration to announce the cast of the new “Avengers” title.
The Superheroes study took 5 hours and 26 minutes to present the stars of the highly anticipated “Avengers: Doomsday”, which also announced that production has begun.
Through a live broadcast on YouTube and its social media channels, Marvel announced the cast by revealing a new director chair with the name of an actor approximately every 10 minutes, with 27 actors announced in what seemed not to be a particular order.
“Avengers: Doomsday” marks a return for many family faces of Marvel, including directors Joe and Anthony Russo. The brothers guided the “Avengers” franchise through their extensive story that culminated with “Avengers: Endgame” in 2019. When the duo appeared in San Diego Comic-Con Last summer to announce their next plans, they brought the Marvel icon Robert Downey Jr.Known for his interpretation of Tony Stark, also known as Iron Man. Downey will return to MCU as Doctor Doom in “Doomsday”, which will be launched on May 1, 2026.
The announcement video culminated with Downey walking along the long line of chairs and sitting in the last one, marked with its name. Around 10 million people were watching live broadcast in X when it concluded.
The meetings will continue, with many of the original avengers revealed as part of the “Doomsday” cast. Those include Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Captain America, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier and Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man, whose chair in the announcement video was appropriately of anthill size.
Tom Hiddleston will return as God of the Loki mischief, Thor's brother, in a turn that arrived approximately 3 hours and 45 minutes in live broadcast. The end of the Disney+ “Loki” series saw the titular character assuming an integral part of the stability of the entire multiverse, and its inclusion in “Doomsday” surprised many fans.
The X-Men Universe of 20th Century Fox is officially merging with the MCU. Patrick Stewart will appear in “Doomsday” as Professor Charles Xavier, after a brief cameo as the character of “Doctor Strange in the Multivarse of Madness” of 2022. Ian McKellen will make his Marvel debut, probably repeating his role as magnet. Kelsey Grammer, who played Hank McCoy/Beast in “X-Men” films, was also announced among the cast. Grammer had a cameo as a beast in one of the famous average credit scenes of the study in “The Marvels” in 2023.
Alan Cumming, James Marsden and Rebecca Romijn of the world “X-Men”, all Marvel newcomers will also appear. Cumming played Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler, Romijn portrayed Raven Darkholme/mystical before Jennifer Lawrence assumed the paper and Marsden was Scott Summers/Cyclops.
Disney acquisition of 21st Century Fox In 2019 it also means that Marvel has the cinematographic rights of the characters of “four fantastic”, which are the adversaries of Doctor Doom. Vanessa Kirby plays Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Pedro Pascal represents Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Ebon Moss-Bachrach portrays Ben Grimm/Thing and Joseph Quinn faces Johnny Storm/Human Antorcha. The quartet will appear for the first time in “The Fantastic Four: First Steps”, which hits the cinemas on July 25, before returning in “Doomsday”.
Another next Marvel title, “Thunderbolts*”, which arrives at theaters on May 2, will also lend much of its cast to the busy call sheet of “Doomsday”. The “Thunderbolts*” team will reproduce its papers again includes Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, David Harbor as Alexei Shostakov/Guardián Red, Lewis Pullman as Bob Reynolds/Sentry, Wyatt Russell as John Walker and Hannah John-Kamen as Av Starr/Ghost.
Simu Liu, who played the main character in “Shang-Chi and the legend of the ten rings”, will repeat his role again. The students of “Black Panther” Letitia Wright (Shuri), Winston Duke (M'Baku) and Tenoch Huerta Mejia (Namor) are also part of the cast. Danny Ramírez, who portrays Joaquín Torres/Falcon and appeared in the “Captain America: Brave New World” last month, will return.
Channing tatum, a highlighted in “Deadpool & Wolverine” As Gambit, he will repeat his role again. Tatum had long joined a spin-off “X-Men” for the character, who ended up becoming a victim of Fox's acquisition by Disney.
It is not clear how “Doomsday” will enroll in a consistent way to all these complex characters and stories in a single movie.
The prolonged style of the announcement proved to be unpopular with some fans online, with one writing in x“By the time they finish announcing the cast like this, Doomsday will be in Disney+”.
Marvel will conclude Phase 5 of the Marvel cinematographic universe with “Thunderbolts*” in May and “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” will begin phase 6 the following month. “Avengers: Doomsday”, the fifth movie of “Avengers”, was originally supposed to “Avengers: Kang Dynsty”. The fate of that movie was in Limbo after Marvel fired Jonathan Majors Last year after his conviction for assault and harassment charges. Majors had previously played the villain Kang the Conqueror in the MCU.
