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Express Tribune
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Alan Cumming may have teased major Avengers: Doomsday twist involving Pedro Pascal
Alan Cumming may have just dropped a major hint about the plot of Avengers: Doomsday, possibly confirming a fan-favorite theory about a multiversal clash between Marvel's biggest teams. In a recent interview with BuzzFeed UK, the actor—reprising his iconic role as Nightcrawler from 2003's X2: X-Men United—teased a potential fight scene involving Pedro Pascal's Mister Fantastic. While reflecting on his return to superhero cinema after more than two decades, Cumming joked, 'I was learning stunts yesterday for some fight scene and I'm thinking, 'I'm 60 years old… And now I'm back doing it. That, to me, is hilarious.'' He continued, 'I'm like, 'Who am I fighting with?' And they said, 'You're hitting Pedro Pascal against the head,' or something." Though his comment was delivered in a lighthearted tone, fans are speculating that it confirms a pivotal Avengers: Doomsday twist—pitting the Fox X-Men universe against the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and possibly more Marvel characters from different timelines. Cumming's return as Nightcrawler adds to growing rumors that Avengers: Doomsday will explore a multiverse conflict before uniting its heroes to face a common enemy—likely Robert Downey Jr.'s rumored return as Doctor Doom. While Marvel Studios has not confirmed plot specifics, Cumming's casual comment adds weight to theories about inter-franchise battles. Still, fans should take the statement with a grain of salt until official details emerge. Avengers: Doomsday is set to hit theaters on May 1, 2026.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Five hours and 26 actors? Marvel's exhausting Avengers ‘reveal' spells Doomsday for the MCU
Superhero fatigue might be one of the most onerous problems facing Marvel today, but curiously, the studio seems to have decided to embrace it. How else to explain yesterday's bizarre and even trollish publicity stunt to mark the start of production on Avengers: Doomsday, in which over five and a half exhaustingly minimalist hours, the names of 26 cast members were announced via a camera slowly rolling past a line of folding chairs? As a work of grindingly slow cinema it took the biscuit, at a rate of no more than one crumb per minute. Sit it beside the work of Béla Tarr, the notoriously punishing Hungarian auteur, and the latter would look like…well, an early Marvel movie. What was the point of this strange, protracted exercise? Partly it was to trumpet the return of a half-dozen familiar faces from the original Fox X-Men run: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Kelsey Grammer, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn and James Marsden. (No Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry or Anna Paquin, though – or at least, not yet.) Stewart has previously cameoed in the 2022 Doctor Strange sequel and Grammer in the post-credits scene of 2023's The Marvels, but the others largely haven't been seen in Marvel properties since the 2010s: Cumming has been MIA since 2003's X2. After last year's Deadpool & Wolverine cashed in on nostalgia for Marvel's pre-Cinematic Universe films to the tune of $1.3 billion, though, such a move has felt inevitable. So let's discount that film's cloying end-of-an-era postscript which strongly suggested that particular timeline and its inhabitants had now been put to bed for good. In the MCU no one ever dies or retires, providing the board is prepared to sign off on however many dump trucks of currency are required to lure them back. Some, it seems, have resisted (or perhaps just weren't asked). Among the names announced, the following veteran Avengers and hangers-on were notably absent: Elizabeth Olsen, Mark Ruffalo, the Chrises Evans and Pratt, Tom Holland, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ryan Reynolds, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Hayley Atwell, Oscar Isaac, Evangeline Lilly, Iman Vellani, Benedict Wong, Samuel L Jackson, Tatiana Maslany, Teyonah Parris and Brie Larson. Olsen, who has served a 10-year stretch as Scarlet Witch, suggested in a recent interview that her character wouldn't return, while Evans has said a number of times that his version of Captain America is 'happily retired'. Few fans will be yowling with dismay over the benching of second-stringers like Renner and Lilly, but the idea of a new Avengers film without, say, Holland's Spider-Man, Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange or Larson's Captain Marvel would be odd indeed. Two possibilities: either they're surprise inclusions, or are being held back for 2027's Secret Wars, when they can breeze in and thwart whatever cliffhanger next summer yields. Another Marvel movie maxim: the promotional campaign is the film, which means plot twists are already in train. But this leaves both Marvel and its audience in a supremely odd position: not only was the stunt tedious, it was borderline meaningless, since no one believes these 26 names are the full extent of Doomsday's cast, nor that all of them will play meaningful roles. (Unless the film itself is also five and a half hours long, that would be logistically impossible.) Robert Downey Jr's prominence makes sense, since the former Iron Man star's return as Doctor Doom appears to be Marvel's overture to former fans whose interest in the franchise waned since his departure in 2019's Avengers: Endgame. But how many of those other names will mean anything to those of us who have failed to keep pace with the series' post-covid content splurge? Much of yesterday's roll call was less a who's who of recent superhero cinema than a who's he: with apologies to Danny Ramirez, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Hannah John-Kamen and Lewis Pullman, neither these actors nor their characters are marquee draws, which makes their inclusion in yesterday's announcement feel like bloat for bloat's sake. It rather undercuts the clean promotional strategy behind this summer's Fantastic Four: First Steps, which is positioning that film as not a fresh start for the franchise, but a non-threatening on-ramp for more casual consumers unschooled in the lore of the currently 13 MCU series currently available on Disney+. So are we meant to understand this as a flex? Are Marvel showing us that, despite their recent commercial wobbles, they can still get a portion of the internet to spend the better part of a working day watching a camera trundle down a row of furniture, and glean nothing from it but a partial cast list? Maybe so, but it was hard not to detect a certain brittleness in the gesture – a clenched insistence that the revelation of each of these names was a treat, honest it was, to get our tastebuds tingling in advance of the feast. But the prospect of a superhero binge isn't what it was 10 years ago. Do many of us still have the stomach for a menu this poundingly expansive? Tom Hiddleston (Loki) Patrick Stewart (Charles Xavier) Ian McKellen (Magneto) Robert Downey Jr. (Dr Doom) Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler) Rebecca Romijn (Mystique) James Marsden (Cyclops) Channing Tatum (Gambit) Pedro Pascal (Mister Fantastic) Chris Hemsworth (Thor) Vanessa Kirby (Invisible Woman) Anthony Mackie (Captain America) Sebastian Stan (Bucky Barnes) Letitia Wright (Black Panther) Paul Rudd (Ant-Man) Wyatt Russell (John Walker) Tenoch Huerta Mejía (Namor) Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Thing) Simu Liu (Shang-Chi) Florence Pugh (Yelena Belova) Kelsey Grammer (Beast) Lewis Pullman (Sentry) Danny Ramirez (Falcon) Joseph Quinn (Human Torch) David Harbour (Red Guardian) Winston Duke (M'Baku) Hannah John-Kamen (Ghost) Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Telegraph
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Five hours and 26 actors? Marvel's exhausting Avengers ‘reveal' spells Doomsday for the MCU
Superhero fatigue might be one of the most onerous problems facing Marvel today, but curiously, the studio seems to have decided to embrace it. How else to explain yesterday's bizarre and even trollish publicity stunt to mark the start of production on Avengers: Doomsday, in which over five and a half exhaustingly minimalist hours, the names of 26 cast members were announced via a camera slowly rolling past a line of folding chairs? As a work of grindingly slow cinema it took the biscuit, at a rate of no more than one crumb per minute. Sit it beside the work of Béla Tarr, the notoriously punishing Hungarian auteur, and the latter would look like…well, an early Marvel movie. What was the point of this strange, protracted exercise? Partly it was to trumpet the return of a half-dozen familiar faces from the original Fox X-Men run: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Kelsey Grammer, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn and James Marsden. (No Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry or Anna Paquin, though – or at least, not yet.) Stewart has previously cameoed in the 2022 Doctor Strange sequel and Grammer in the post-credits scene of 2023's The Marvels, but the others largely haven't been seen in Marvel properties since the 2010s: Cumming has been MIA since 2003's X2. After last year's Deadpool & Wolverine cashed in on nostalgia for Marvel's pre-Cinematic Universe films to the tune of $1.3 billion, though, such a move has felt inevitable. So let's discount that film's cloying end-of-an-era postscript which strongly suggested that particular timeline and its inhabitants had now been put to bed for good. In the MCU no one ever dies or retires, providing the board is prepared to sign off on however many dump trucks of currency are required to lure them back. Some, it seems, have resisted (or perhaps just weren't asked). Among the names announced, the following veteran Avengers and hangers-on were notably absent: Elizabeth Olsen, Mark Ruffalo, the Chrises Evans and Pratt, Tom Holland, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ryan Reynolds, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Hayley Atwell, Oscar Isaac, Evangeline Lilly, Iman Vellani, Benedict Wong, Samuel L Jackson, Tatiana Maslany, Teyonah Parris and Brie Larson. Olsen, who has served a 10-year stretch as Scarlet Witch, suggested in a recent interview that her character wouldn't return, while Evans has said a number of times that his version of Captain America is 'happily retired'. Few fans will be yowling with dismay over the benching of second-stringers like Renner and Lilly, but the idea of a new Avengers film without, say, Holland's Spider-Man, Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange or Larson's Captain Marvel would be odd indeed. Two possibilities: either they're surprise inclusions, or are being held back for 2027's Secret Wars, when they can breeze in and thwart whatever cliffhanger next summer yields. Another Marvel movie maxim: the promotional campaign is the film, which means plot twists are already in train. But this leaves both Marvel and its audience in a supremely odd position: not only was the stunt tedious, it was borderline meaningless, since no one believes these 26 names are the full extent of Doomsday's cast, nor that all of them will play meaningful roles. (Unless the film itself is also five and a half hours long, that would be logistically impossible.) Robert Downey Jr's prominence makes sense, since the former Iron Man star's return as Doctor Doom appears to be Marvel's overture to former fans whose interest in the franchise waned since his departure in 2019's Avengers: Endgame. But how many of those other names will mean anything to those of us who have failed to keep pace with the series' post-covid content splurge? Much of yesterday's roll call was less a who's who of recent superhero cinema than a who's he: with apologies to Danny Ramirez, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Hannah John-Kamen and Lewis Pullman, neither these actors nor their characters are marquee draws, which makes their inclusion in yesterday's announcement feel like bloat for bloat's sake. It rather undercuts the clean promotional strategy behind this summer's Fantastic Four: First Steps, which is positioning that film as not a fresh start for the franchise, but a non-threatening on-ramp for more casual consumers unschooled in the lore of the currently 13 MCU series currently available on Disney+. So are we meant to understand this as a flex? Are Marvel showing us that, despite their recent commercial wobbles, they can still get a portion of the internet to spend the better part of a working day watching a camera trundle down a row of furniture, and glean nothing from it but a partial cast list? Maybe so, but it was hard not to detect a certain brittleness in the gesture – a clenched insistence that the revelation of each of these names was a treat, honest it was, to get our tastebuds tingling in advance of the feast. But the prospect of a superhero binge isn't what it was 10 years ago. Do many of us still have the stomach for a menu this poundingly expansive? Avengers: Doomsday – the cast so far Tom Hiddleston (Loki) Patrick Stewart (Charles Xavier) Ian McKellen (Magneto) Robert Downey Jr. (Dr Doom) Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler) Rebecca Romijn (Mystique) James Marsden (Cyclops) Channing Tatum (Gambit) Pedro Pascal (Mister Fantastic) Chris Hemsworth (Thor) Vanessa Kirby (Invisible Woman) Anthony Mackie (Captain America) Sebastian Stan (Bucky Barnes) Letitia Wright (Black Panther) Paul Rudd (Ant-Man) Wyatt Russell (John Walker) Tenoch Huerta Mejía (Namor) Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Thing) Simu Liu (Shang-Chi) Florence Pugh (Yelena Belova) Kelsey Grammer (Beast) Lewis Pullman (Sentry) Danny Ramirez (Falcon) Joseph Quinn (Human Torch) David Harbour (Red Guardian) Winston Duke (M'Baku) Hannah John-Kamen (Ghost)
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Every Original Fox X-Men Character (and Actor) Returning in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY
With the announcement of the cast for Avengers: Doomsday, we got many of the usual suspects, like Thor, Ant-Man, Black Panther, and the Thunderbolts. But we're also getting a ton of the original Fox X-Men returning in Avengers: Doomsday. We're not surprised, after the cameo from Beast (Kelsey Grammer) in The Marvels. But we're still excited to see quite a few of the original X-Men returning, probably for one last hurrah before their MCU reboot. Here are all the original Fox X-Men characters (and actors) that will be back as part of the Avengers: Doomsday cast. Patrick Stewart may be 84 years old, but that's not stopping him from playing X-Men leader Professor Charles Xavier for the eighth time in Avengers: Doomsday. Yes, Chuck will be back, presumably in his yellow hover chair, leading the X-Men. Will he die for a fifth time on the big screen? Given the title of the movie, we'd bet on it. Ian McKellen was last seen as the Master of Magnetism, Erik Lehnsherr, in Days of Future Past. But McKellen will return to play Charles Xavier's best frenemy Magneto in Avengers: Doomsday. Whatever else happens, we can't wait to see Sir Patrick and Sir Ian as Magneto share screen time together again. After appearing in the post-credits scene of The Marvels, it was a no-brainer that Kelsey Grammer would return as Dr. Hank McCoy, the Beast. It looks like Grammer will get the chance to play the X-Men's big blue furball one more time in Avengers: Doomsday. Bamf! Now, this one is a big surprise. Alan Cumming, who played Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner in Fox's X2: X-Men United, will also return in Avengers: Doomsday. Cumming truly hated the makeup process for his character. He hated it so much that he never came back for any other X-Men sequels. So it will be interesting to see how Cumming's character Nightcrawler looks in the MCU. Rounding out the blue mutants in the film, original X-Men actress Rebecca Romijn will be back as the shapeshifting badass Mystique in Avengers: Doomsday. Romijn hasn't played this character in nearly twenty years, since X-Men: The Last Stand. She's returning to the role for the first time since Jennifer Lawrence took over the part in X-Men: First Class. The X-Men's field leader, Scott Summers, never got a fair shake in the original Fox X-Men movies. But now James Marsden is returning as the X-Men's Cyclops in Avengers: Doomsday, hopefully giving that character a good redemption arc. Here's hoping the MCU version of the optically powered mutant isn't just there to be a tool, and we get the consummate leader we know Marsden can play. After stealing the show in Deadpool & Wolverine, Channing Tatum will be back as the ragin' Cajun mutant Gambit. We'd guess that Remy LeBeau is going to be a full-fledged member of the X-Men this time, when he graces our screens again in Avengers: Doomsday. He was one of the funniest things in Deadpool & Wolverine, so we're glad he's getting another shot. We also hope his accent is even more ludicrous this time. Will other Fox X-Men pop up in Avengers: Doomsday? We have a feeling this is not the full cast. Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman have to appear too, right? We imagine these names are but the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the Fox X-Men that will be joining the MCU.
