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Marvel Is Live And Slowly Announcing The Avengers: Doomsday Cast

Marvel is currently live announcing that production for Avengers: Doomsday has started and dropping some casting confirmations.

Marvel Studios is doing another live event on YouTube, but this time, they are being much more mysterious about what they are announcing. The last time they did something like this, we all got up at 4 AM PST thinking that is when The Fantastic Four: First Steps trailer would drop, but instead, we were greeted with yet another countdown and twenty minutes of interviews before the trailer finally dropped. My sleep schedule was not overly thrilled about it. Right now, we don't know what Marvel is teasing, but we can guess, and there is one very obvious guess: Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars are in production, and we're getting some casting confirmations. Once Anthony Mackie's name appeared on the screen, the official Marvel Twitter account shared a short video of Mackie's name appearing and a graphic showing that the film was now in production, which was all the confirmation we needed—time for some casting confirmations [finally].

The movie is all people have been talking about ever since Anthony and Joe Russo did the press rounds for The Electric State, and that movie went over like a wet blanket. The pair also made some comments in interviews that had people raising their eyebrows and wondering what was going on. The poor reactions to the brothers on social media recently, the somewhat lukewarm reaction to Robert Downey Jr.'s return as Doctor Doom, and the rumors that Kevin Feige was "concerned" started to fly. Right now, the casting announcements we have are few and far between, with several big names rumored to return with others in a more nebulous state. Production is set to kick off any day now, so Marvel is doing a big thing to confirm who will and won't be there, which makes sense. So far, we have four chairs on screen, and two of them we already knew about, which are Vanessa Kirby and Anthony Mackie, but this is the first time we have confirmed that Chris Hemsworth and Sebastian Stan are returning for Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars Avengers: Doomsday is set to start production this spring and will be released in theaters on May 1, 2026. Avengers: Secret Wars is set to be released on May 7, 2027. This post will be updated.

UPDATE: The Black Panther will return, indeed; Letitia Wright has been added to the roster. Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, and Wright are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen.

UPDATE:  A tiny chair has appeared and we're getting more Paul Rudd as Ant-Man makes his return to the Avengers roster for Avengers: Doomsday. Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, and Rudd are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen.

UPDATE: We have our first interesting name so far. It seems that Wyatt Russell is joining another team after the Thunderbolts*. Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, and Russell are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen.

UPDATE: Another interesting casting announcement. Tenoch Huerta Mejia is returning as Namor, so Reed better treat Sue right. Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, and Mejia are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen.

UPDATE: In a shocking move, when one member of the Fantastic Four has already been confirmed, here is another. Ebon Moss-Bachrach is also here to clobber some people. Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejia and Moss-Bachrach are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen. We're still chugging along folks, watching chairs, what a morning.

UPDATE: Oh good, Marvel remembered one of its strongest post-Endgame movies exists. Simu Liu is officially returning as Shang-Chi. My dad is stoked about this announcement.  Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Liu are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen.

UPDATE: I have a friend who just screamed like a banshee in excitement because Florence Pugh is returning as Yelena. Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Simu Liu, and Pugh are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen.

UPDATE:  FINALLY, Marvel pulls something interesting out of their hat for this experience. Kelsey Grammer is joining the cast as, what we can only assume, is the version of Beast we saw at the end of The Marvels. Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh and Grammer are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen.

UPDATE: Another Thunderbolts* cast member is making the jump to the big leagues. Lewis Pullman, who is playing Sentry, is the latest to join the already large cast. Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh, Kelsey Grammer, and Pullman are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen.

UPDATE: This long into this thing and the boring updates should be over and done with. Danny Ramirez is returning as the Falcon, and no one is really that surprised. Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh, Kelsey Grammer, Lewis Pullman, and Ramirez are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen. Give me an Eternal on the cast list, you cowards.

UPDATE: Flame on; yet another member of the Fantastic Four is here. Joseph Quinn has officially stepped up. Once all four members of that cast are announced, we'll maybe know that the light is at the end of this long ass tunnel. Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh, Kelsey Grammer, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, and Quinn are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen. I still want an Eternal on this list Marvel, do it.

UPDATE: Apparently, no one is dying in Thunderbolts*. Thank you for letting us know six weeks before the movie comes out, Marvel, 10/10 marketing. David Harbour is the latest Thunderbolts* member to make the jump. Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh, Kelsey Grammer, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, Joseph Quinn, and Harbour are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen.

UPDATE: More people from the Black Panther side of the Marvel Universe are returning as the latest name to join the rest is Winston Duke. Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh, Kelsey Grammer, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, Joseph Quinn, David Harbour, and Duke are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen. Hey Marvel, why are there only three women on this entire list?

UPDATE: Another woman, finally! And another member of the Thunderbolts*, so apparently, we have absolutely no reason to have any tension at all in that film for pretty much any of the characters. Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost is someone I want to see more of, but come on. Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh, Kelsey Grammer, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, Joseph Quinn, David Harbour, Winston Duke, and John-Kaman are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen.

UPDATE: I mean, all right, I guess? Tom Hiddleston can keep blessing the MCU with performances way better than they deserve for as long as they are willing to throw money at him. And I know Thunderbolts aren't the Suicide Squad in terms of dying. I mean that if we know who lives, there are virtually no stakes for the film, thus rendering it mostly pointless and lacking a lot of tension. Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh, Kelsey Grammer, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, Joseph Quinn, David Harbour, Winston Duke, Hannah John-Kaman, and Hiddleston are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen.

Not related to the casting update: Does anyone want to Uber eats me some lunch? I am running entirely on two strawberry apricot red bulls and I'm not sure how good it is for my health. [Kidding…mostly…I am hungry and nothing has "this could have been an email"ed harder than this entire thing. Also, if you're enjoying my live disdain, please join me for my CinemaCon coverage next week].

UPDATE: X-Men theme, we know that sound…and I was excited for all of three seconds. I quite literally said, "OH YOU BORING MOTHER FUCKERS" loud enough that my neighbors might be worried. So, Patrick Stewart is here because I was right months ago when I said this movie was not a step forward but backward. They are playing it safe as an overreaction to post-Endgame MCU underperforming and we just got the most perfect example of it right there.

Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh, Kelsey Grammer, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, Joseph Quinn, David Harbour, Winston Duke, Hannah John-Kaman, Tom Hiddleston, and Stewart are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen. I know nothing else but the chairs. The chairs are my religion. The chairs are the center of my universe. All hail the chairs.

UPDATE: I should have called this in the last update so I would seem cool, but I think we all knew if Patrick is here then Ian McKellen would be here too. In other news, I found a yogurt to eat, does anyone have any lactose free/gluten free food they want to recommend to someone who recently made that switch? Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh, Kelsey Grammer, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, Joseph Quinn, David Harbour, Winston Duke, Hannah John-Kaman, Tom Hiddleston, Patrick Stewart, and McKellen are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen. My mother is confused about how this is still going since she has run an entire day's worth of errands in this runtime. Her and my dad are still only invested in Shang-Chi's return.

UPDATE: We're continuing with what appears to be old X-Men cast members returning for another round, but they managed to convince Alan Cumming that it was worth it this time. We haven't seen him since he was absolutely incredible-looking in X2, and I have a terrible feeling he's going to look worse two decades later. Of course, we aren't 100% sure what anyone is playing, but let's continue to look for horses instead of zebras for the sake of my wilting sanity. Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh, Kelsey Grammer, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, Joseph Quinn, David Harbour, Winston Duke, Hannah John-Kaman, Tom Hiddleston, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen. Just drop the cast list from the previous X-Men movies and call it a day; we know that's what you're going to do; I have stuff to do.

UPDATE: Like I said, drop the previous X-Men cast list and move 👏 this 👏 along 👏. Much like Cumming, I have a terrible feeling the always incredible Rebecca Romijn will look worse in this movie than she did two decades ago. [NOTE: THIS IS NOT A REFERENCE TO REBECCA'S PHYSICAL LOOKS. I AM REFERENCING THE MAKEUP AND VFX LOOKING WORSE IN 2026 THAN IT DID IN THE EARLY 2000S. The last version we got of Mystique and Nightcrawler looks worse compared to the first versions we got and studios have only gotten more lazy with leaning into VFX over practical makeup. The practical makeup is what made those two look incredible, and I could easily see Marvel just using motion-capture as a cost-saving measure, which is lame.]

Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh, Kelsey Grammer, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, Joseph Quinn, David Harbour, Winston Duke, Hannah John-Kaman, Tom Hiddleston, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, and Romijn are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen. To the person who recommended soy yogurt, I'm already eating coconut yogurt, I wasn't a fan of the soy, but I did giggle at your comment, so thank you for that.

UPDATE: This movie is going to reach critical asshole levels because now we're going to have Reed Richards and Scott Summers in the same vicinity. Welcome back to comic book movies, James Marsden. Cyclops is still The Worst, but so is Reed, so double trouble in this one. This movie is going to reach critical asshole levels because now we're going to have Reed Richards and Scott Summers in the same vicinity. Welcome back to comic book movies, James Marsden. Cyclops is still The Worst, but so is Reed, so double trouble in this one. Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh, Kelsey Grammer, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, Joseph Quinn, David Harbour, Winston Duke, Hannah John-Kaman, Tom Hiddleston, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, and Marsden are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen

Also, to the commenter who said I was making an ageist comment about Rebecca, I was not talking about her physical looks. I was saying how the makeup looks for both her and Cumming is probably going to look worse in 2026 than it did in the early 2000s. I wasn't entirely clear, though, and I don't want to let that comment stand without being addressed. I blame the Red Bull and the lack of food.

UPDATE: Well, this is also surprising, but also not surprising. It was kind of apparent that Channing Tatum and his role as Gambit in Deadpool & Wolverine was 75% extremely deep-cut Marvel-Fox lore joke, but 25% audience test to see how people reacted to the character. And people seemed kind of into it. Fans I personally spoke to were relatively happy with the presentation of the character. This character and project has always been a massive passion project for Tatum; Gambit is to Tatum what Deadpool is to Ryan Reynolds, so between the relatively good reception and the fact that he was saved, it's nice to see Tatum get another chance to explore this character. I'm okay with this, and I'm happy for him. Side note to the above asshole comments: being an asshole doesn't mean a character is a bad character or evil; he's just an asshole; we love that for them and their asshole nature.

Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh, Kelsey Grammer, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, Joseph Quinn, David Harbour, Winston Duke, Hannah John-Kaman, Tom Hiddleston, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden, and Tatum are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen.

UPDATE: You guys, we might be approaching the end of this long hell because all four of The Fantastic Four are finally here. As mentioned above, Reed Richard (like Scott Summers) is an excellent character who happens to be a giant asshole who is played by Actual Ray Of Sunshine Pedro Pascal, which is going to make for an entertaining depiction of him. Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh, Kelsey Grammer, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, Joseph Quinn, David Harbour, Winston Duke, Hannah John-Kaman, Tom Hiddleston, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden, Channing Tatum, and Pascal are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday we have so far on screen. I have opened Red Bull number three, and I have a headache; this thing is a novel; I didn't know what I was getting into when I stumbled out of bed to three of these stupid chairs already on my screen.

UPDATE: When I tell you all, I just laughed, but ending on the casting announcement that they made a big freaking deal about nine months ago after five hours is one hell of a choice. Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh, Kelsey Grammer, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, Joseph Quinn, David Harbour, Winston Duke, Hannah John-Kaman, Tom Hiddleston, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden, Channing Tatum, Pedro Pascal, and Robert Downey Jr. are the confirmations for Avengers: Doomsday that ended up on screen. The lack of TV characters is EXTREMELY telling and very disappointing.

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