Scarlet Witch Actress Elizabeth Olsen Suggests She's Not in Avengers: Secret Wars or Avengers: Doomsday — Here's Why

Scarlet Witch histrion Elizabeth Olsen has suggested she volition not beryllium successful either Avengers: Secret Wars oregon Avengers: Doomsday.

Marvel Cinematic Universe fans had hoped to spot The Scarlet Witch instrumentality pursuing the events of Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness.

Warning! Spoilers for Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness and Agatha All Along Season 1 follow.

Scarlet Witch seemingly died astatine the extremity of the 2022 MCU movie and failed to marque a melodramatic instrumentality successful Disney+ amusement Agatha All Along, overmuch to the disappointment of fans. Olsen had said she’d beryllium up for playing Scarlet Witch erstwhile again, “if there’s a bully mode to usage her.”

Then, MCU brag Kevin Feige issued a tease that got Scarlet Witch fans excited. “We had Agatha Forever connected Disney+ conscionable now, and that bid was large for us,” helium said. “Since then, determination person been a batch of questions astir Wanda connected fans' minds... So each I tin accidental is that we're excited to find retired erstwhile and however the Scarlet Witch mightiness return.”

If that instrumentality to the MCU does happen, it seemingly won’t beryllium successful Avengers. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Olsen insisted she won’t beryllium successful London for the filming of the Russo brothers’ 2 upcoming Avengers movies, Doomsday and Secret Wars.

Why? She wants to absorption connected her non-Marvel movies close now. Doomsday and Secret Wars volition soon commencement shooting successful London via back-to-back productions, whereas Olsen is astir to movie a aviator for FX play Seven Sisters.

Is this a ruse? Could Olsen beryllium offering a diversion successful her effect to The Hollywood Reporter’s question? It wouldn’t beryllium the archetypal misleading misdirection from a subordinate of the MCU’s cast. Perhaps everyone wants Scarlet Witch’s engagement successful Avengers to beryllium a large astonishment if and erstwhile it happens, and ruling it retired successful interviews volition help.

Here’s what we know: Iron Man histrion Robert Downey Jr. is acceptable to instrumentality arsenic Doctor Doom, and Benedict Cumberbatch returns arsenic Doctor Strange successful Secret Wars. Elsewhere, we person vague rumblings astir who volition crook up successful the film, with everyone from The Fantastic Four to the Thunderbolts rumored to beryllium successful the cast.

All eyes volition beryllium connected London to spot which MCU stars are successful municipality erstwhile the filming takes place. Expect plentifulness much reports from eagle-eyed fans to deed the net successful the coming months.

The MCU rumbles connected regardless. Thunderbolts* comes retired successful May 2025, TV amusement Ironheart is retired successful June, and Phase 6 kicks disconnected with The Fantastic Four: First Steps successful July.

Earlier this month, the Russo brothers said they spot Avengers 5 and 6 arsenic a “new beginning” that volition laic the instauration for immoderate comes adjacent successful Phase 7 of the MCU.

“The lone happening I’ll accidental astir the movie is this: we emotion villains who deliberation they’re the heroes of their ain stories,” Joe Russo said. “That’s erstwhile they go three-dimensional and they go much interesting. When you person an histrion similar Robert Downey, you person to make a three-dimensional, good shaped quality for the audience. That’s wherever a batch of our absorption is going.”

Avengers: Doomsday is presently acceptable to get successful theaters May 1, 2026 and Secret Wars arrives astir a twelvemonth aboriginal successful May 2027.

Late past year, Feige teased the instauration of X-Men characters successful the "next few" MCU movies. Feige told an assemblage astatine the Disney APAC Content Showcase successful Singapore that fans would spot “some X-Men players that you mightiness recognize” successful the adjacent fewer MCU movies, but helium stopped abbreviated of saying which characters oregon what movies.

On bringing the X-Men into the MCU, Feige added: “I deliberation you volition spot that continues successful our adjacent fewer movies with immoderate X-Men players that you mightiness recognize.

“Right aft that, the full communicative of Secret Wars truly leads america into a caller property of mutants and of the X-Men. Again, [it’s] 1 of those dreams travel true. We yet person the X-Men back.”

Feige has besides said the X-Men volition beryllium an important portion of the MCU’s aboriginal pursuing Secret Wars. "When we were preparing for Avengers: Endgame years ago, it was a question of getting to the expansive finale of our narrative, and past we had to commencement each implicit again aft that,” Feige said. “This time, connected the roadworthy to Secret Wars, we already cognize precise good what the communicative is going to beryllium until past and afterwards. The X-Men are an important portion of that future.”

In October, Marvel Studios added 3 untitled movie projects to its 2028 merchandise schedule: February 18, 2028; May 5, 2028; and November 10, 2028. It seems progressively apt 1 of these movies is X-Men.

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