Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen will be recreating the role of X-Men in Avengers: Doomsday.
Marvel kicked off Live stream Today we're releasing a long list of actors who will be appearing in the first Avengers film of six years.
The pair joins Black Panther actors Letitia Wright, Winston Duke and Tenok Feltamezia. Thor's Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston. Paul Rudd of Ant-Man. Simu Liu of Shang-chi; Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stun of Captain America.
Stars from this summer's Fantastic Four Reboot will also be taking part. This includes those that will appear in upcoming films Thunderbolt, including Oscar nominees Vanessa Carby and Stranger Things actor Joseph Quinn.
Stewart finally played Professor Charles Xavier of Doctor Strange in the Madness Multiverse after being killed by Logan, and McKellen finally played Magneto in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Other X-Men stars will be joined by Kelsey Grammer, Rebecca Romeen, James Marsden and Alan Cumming.
Channing Tatum, who was scheduled to lead a standalone gambit film, will star in his recent role in Deadpool and Wolverine.
Elizabeth Olsen recently played the scar-colored witch Confirmed That she will not be involved in the cast.
It was revealed last year's San Diego Comic-Con star, Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. will be taking part in the film to play the villain Dr. Doom. “New masks. Same task,” Downey Jr. told the crowd. “Boy, I tell you, I like playing complicated characters.”
The film is directed by Anthony and Jorusso, who previously directed four films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The studio's final film was Avengers: Endgame in 2019, which earned more than $2.799 billion worldwide.
“This is the only thing I say about the film. We love the villains we think are the heroes of our story.” Joe Russo I said In a recent interview. “That's when they're three-dimensional and they're even more interesting. And when you have an actor like Robert Downey Jr., you're you I have it Create well-shaped 3D characters for the audience. That's where a lot of our focus is on. ”
Their latest film, The Electric State, landed negative reviews on Netflix earlier this month. Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian called it “a very bland derivative.”
Earlier this year, Captain America: Brave New World won $401 million worldwide after Marvel's performance fell by $206 million in 2023.
Avengers:Doomsday will begin production in London and is scheduled to be released in May 2026.
