At 11 a.m. this morning, the Marvel Studios social media accounts started live-streaming a video they labeled as an all-caps ANNOUNCEMENT. The video showed a soundstage where, one by one, chairs reserved for actors were revealed, with a new chair coming into view every 10 minutes or so. As it turns out, this was a very long and slow way of revealing the star-studded cast of Avengers: Doomsday, which is now heading into production and aiming for a May 1, 2026 theatrical release.
The first chair belonged to Chris Hemsworth, who has played Thor, the God of Thunder, in Thor, The Avengers, Thor: The Dark World, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Doctor Strange, Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and Thor: Love and Thunder. The second chair was reserved for Vanessa Kirby, who plays Susan Storm (a.k.a. Invisible Woman) in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which will be reaching theatres on July 25th. The third chair was for Anthony Mackie, who has played Sam Wilson (a.k.a. The Falcon, a.k.a. Captain America) in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, and Captain America: Brave New World.
The fourth name revealed was Sebastian Stan, who has played James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes in Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Brave New World, and Thunderbolts*, which reaches theatres on May 2nd. The fifth, Letitia Wright, who played Shuri (who eventually became the Black Panther) in Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The sixth chair was a tiny one, since it will be used by Ant-Man, a.k.a. Paul Rudd, who has played Scott Lang in Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Endgame, and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
The seventh chair confirmed the involvement of Wyatt Russell, who played John Walker (formerly, briefly known as Captain America, now U.S. Agent) in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and the soon-to-be-released Thunderbolts*. Number eight, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, who played King Ch’ah Toh Almehen, a.k.a. Namor the Sub-Mariner, in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Number nine, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who plays Ben Grimm (a.k.a. The Thing) in the upcoming The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
The tenth chair belonged to Simu Liu, who played Shang-Chi in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. The eleventh, Florence Pugh, who portrays Yelena Belova in Black Widow, Hawkeye, and the upcoming Thunderbolts*. The twelfth was a bit of a surprise: Kelsey Grammer, who played Dr. Henry “Hank” McCoy, a.k.a. Beast, in the Fox X-Men movies X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: Days of Future Past, then reprised that role for a cameo in The Marvels.
Chair thirteen revealed that Lewis Pullman will be reprising the role of Robert “Bob” Reynolds, a.k.a. Sentry, from Thunderbolts*. The fourteenth chair was for Danny Ramirez, returning as Joaquin Torres (the new Falcon) from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Captain America: Brave New World. Chair fifteen brought in another actor from The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm, a.k.a. Human Torch.
Chair sixteen was for David Harbour, Alexei Shostakov (a.k.a. Red Guardian) from Black Widow and Thunderbolts*. Chair seventeen, Winston Duke, who has played M’Baku in Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Chair eighteen, Hannah John-Kamen, Ava Starr (a.k.a. Ghost) from Ant-Man and the Wasp and Thunderbolts*.
Chair nineteen revealed that Tom Hiddleston will be back as Loki, a character he has previously played in Thor, The Avengers, Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and two seasons of his own Disney+ show, appropriately titled Loki. Chair twenty brought another surprise from the Fox X-Men universe, as Patrick Stewart, who played Professor Charles Xavier in several of the films (and appeared as a version of Professor X in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness) is back in Avengers: Doomsday. Along with Professor X comes his frenemy Erik Lehnsherr, a.k.a. Magneto, as chair twenty-one belonged to Ian McKellen.
Chair twenty-two was for another X-Men actor: Alan Cumming, who played Kurt Wagner, a.k.a. Nightcrawler, in X2: X-Men United. So was chair twenty-three, as Rebecca Romijn is back in the role of Raven Darkholme, a.k.a. Mystique. And chair twenty-four, which belongs to James Marsden, who played Scott Summers, a.k.a. Cyclops, in the early X-Men films.
Chair twenty-five brought the addition of Channing Tatum, who was introduced as the X-Men universe character Remy LeBeau, a.k.a. Gambit, in Deadpool & Wolverine. With chair twenty-six, we went back to the cast of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, as Pedro Pascal will be playing Reed Richards, a.k.a. Mister Fantastic. Then, the stream ended with chair twenty-seven, Robert Downey Jr. – and Downey stopped by for a quick appearance! The actor will be playing Doctor Doom, the new big bad of the MCU.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo, a.k.a. the Russo Brothers, are at the helm of Avengers: Doomsday, working from a screenplay by frequent collaborator Stephen McFeely. They’ll also be directing Avengers: Secret Wars, which will be filming immediately after Doomsday.
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