Marvel Studios Playing Games & My Reaction To The Avengers: Doomsday Casting Announcement
What the title says.
Yesterday was a trip. Marvel live-streamed for a whopping 5 hours, revealing the cast members for Avengers: Doomsday. The live stream hit 90,000 viewers on YouTube, and I remember seeing on Twitter that it peaked from 2 million to 4.7 million in just an hour and a half. I, of course, did not watch, because I love my sanity.
Anyway! Here are the names revealed yesterday:
Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom
Chris Hemsworth as Thor
Tom Hiddleston as Loki
Paul Rudd as Ant-Man
Simu Liu as Shang-Chi
Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards
Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm
Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm
Ebon Moss-Bachrach as The Thing
Lewis Pullman as Sentry
Ian McKellen as Magneto
Sebastian Stan as Bucky
Kelsey Grammer as Beast
James Marsden as Cyclops
Channing Tatum as Gambit
Rebecca Romijn as Mystique
Patrick Stewart as Professor X
Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler
Letitia Wright as Black Panther
Tenoch Huerta Mejía as Namor
Danny Ramirez as Falcon
Anthony Mackie as Captain America
Florence Pugh as Yelena
Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent
David Harbour as Red Guardian
Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost
Winston Duke as M’Baku
Cast Not Included:
Chris Evans as Captain America
Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter
Mark Ruffalo as Hulk
Danai Gurira as Okoye
Chris Pratt as Star-Lord
Charlie Cox as Daredevil
Benedict Wong as Wong
Iman Vellani as Ms. Marvel
Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye
Tom Holland as Spider-Man
Oscar Isaac as Moon Knight
Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie
Evangeline Lilly as The Wasp
Paul Bettany as White Vision
Tatiana Maslany as She-Hulk
Don Cheadle as War Machine
Brie Larson as Captain Marvel
Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster
Dominique Thorne as Ironheart
Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop
Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch
Dakota Johnson as Madame Web
Xochitl Gomez as America Chavez
Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau
Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Strange
MY 🐐’S ARE BACK!! 😭
I’m so excited to see Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart on our screens again and of course, our other members of the X-Men. But I still can’t help but ask where are Storm (Halle Berry) and Jean (Famke Janssen)? Not to mention, Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris), who was last seen with Beast (Kelsey Grammer) and in a whole other universe. And how could I forget— MY QUEEN WANDA (Elizabeth Olsen)?
But fear not!
According to THR, their sources say, “…that even with 26 actors announced, Marvel isn’t done revealing the entire cast. However, when and how the next unveiling will happen is unclear.” So at least there’s hope.
Everything about Avengers: Doomsday has been pretty hush-hush considering the film's significance. The Russos also told The Hollywood Reporter about the difficulty of casting actors and the large pool of characters. They confirmed in their interview that they use baseball cards featuring every Marvel actor and character. They also did this while working on Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame.
“Now they have magnets on them so we can put 'em on a board and look at 'em. It’s the only way to keep track of the amount of characters that we’re working with,” said Joe Russo.
Anthony Russo chimed in, “And as far as how we look at who’s in the movies, it’s just a long creative process of exploring where we want to take the story. What is the most surprising and exciting area for us to push into, and which characters help us in that effort?”
So, what do we know so far?
We know that Doomsday, originally titled Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, has undergone several changes since it was first announced at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2022. Since you know… never mind.
Although an official synopsis for the movie hasn’t been released yet. The comics could tease what’s in store. In 2011, a multi-issue comic was released titled Ultimate Comics: Doomsday, in which the Fantastic Four teamed up with various Marvel superheroes to stop a mysterious villain trying to destroy their timeline. Some fans theorize the film could also pull from the comic Time Runs Out.
It’s a crossover event where the Avengers and Illuminati struggle to prevent the collapse of the Multiverse. Alternate realities begin to merge and unravel. Ultimately leading into the Secret Wars event.
But it’s all speculation at this point.
Tell me your thoughts in the comments below! What do you think about the casting? Any predictions or theories on the plot? Let’s clank our brain cells together.
Doomsday is set to release May 1, 2026, while the follow-up Avengers: Secret Wars is scheduled for May 7, 2027.