[UPDATE] Marvel Announcement Video Reveals Avengers: Doomsday Cast

Marvel has started a astonishment livestream that is announcing the formed of Avengers: Doomsday.

The video is revealing assorted MCU histrion names, displayed connected the backmost of on-set chairs, alongside their character's philharmonic themes. Names shown truthful acold see Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Vanessa Kirby (Invisible Woman), Anthony Mackie (Captain America), Sebastian Stan (Winter Solder), Letitia Wright (Shuri / Black Panther), Paul Rudd (Ant-Man), Wyatt Russell (John Walker / U.S. Agent), and Tenoch Huerta Mejía (Namor).

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Already confirmed is Iron Man histrion Robert Downey Jr. arsenic Doctor Doom, with Benedict Cumberbatch acceptable to instrumentality arsenic Doctor Strange successful Secret Wars.

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. 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.

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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