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Marvel’s Avengers – Doomsday starts Production and Announces ensemble Casts

Marvel has officially announce that the Avengers: Doomsday has started production, once completed the film is scheduled to be release on May 2026. Marvel also announced the casts of the upcoming film and to hype-up the announcement, Marvel Studio held a 5 hr+ long live stream on their social media channels.

The cast includes the original Avengers, Black Panther, members of the upcoming Thunderbolts* and Fantastic Four: First Steps, the 20th Century Fox’s X-Men, and characters from Shang-Chi and Black Widow.

OG Avengers

  • Chris Hemsworth – Thor
  • Anthony Mackie – Captain America
  • Sebastian Stan – Bucky Barnes
  • Paul Rudd – Ant-Man
  • Tom Hiddleston – Loki
  • Robert Downey Jr. – Doctor Doom

Thunderbolts*

  • Wyatt Russell – U.S Agent
  • Florence Pugh – Yelena Belova
  • Lewis Pullman – Sentry
  • Danny Ramirez – Falcon
  • David Harbour – Red Guardian
  • Hannah John-Kamen – Ghost

Fantastic Four: First Steps

  • Vanessa Kirby – Sue Storm
  • Ebon Moss-Bachrach – The Thing
  • Joseph Quinn – Johnny Storm
  • Pedro Pascal – Reed Richards

X-Men

  • Kelsey Grammer – Beast
  • Patrick Stewart – Professor X
  • Ian McKellen – Magneto
  • Alan Cumming – Nightcrawler
  • Rebecca Romijn – Mystique
  • James Marsden – Cyclops
  • Channing Tatum – Gambit

Black Panther

  • Letitia Wright – Black Panther
  • Tenoch Huerta Mejia – Namor
  • Winston Duke – M’Baku

Shang-Chi

  • Simu Liu – Shang-Chi

There have been reports that Marvel will still announced at least 10 more cast member but that remains to be seen, since this initial 27 casts members is a bit too much to fit in a 3-hour film.

Marvel unveil Robert Downey Jr. as the next Big Bad Villain of the MCU

At the San Diego Comic Con, Marvel announced that the next big bad boss the MCU is none other than Dr. Doom, which will be portray by none other than Robert Downey Jr. Dr. Doom will replace Kang the Conqueror, as the main villain of the MCU, played by Jonathan Majors, Majors was booted off the MCU after being convicted of misdemeanor assault by a Manhattan jury last December 2023.

Together with the announcement, Marvel also announced the return of the Russo brothers who will be directing the next two Avengers film aptly named “Avengers: Doomsday” and “Avengers: Secret Wars.” It’s unclear if RDJ’s Dr. Doom will be a variant of Tony Stark, a result of the MCU Phase 5 – Multiverse Saga or the traditional Dr. Victor Von Doom.