Marvel announced 27 actors attached to next year’s Avengers: Doomsday during a five-hour (?!?!) live stream yesterday.
The Lineup (In Order of Announcement)
- Chris Hemsworth (Thor)
- Vanessa Kirby (Invisible Woman/Sue Storm)
- Anthony Mackie (Captain America/Sam Wilson)
- Sebastian Stan (James Buchanan Barnes)
- Letitia Wright (Black Panther/Shuri)
- Paul Rudd (Ant-Man/Scott Lang)
- Wyatt Russell (US Agent/John Walker)
- Tenoch Huerta Mejia (Sub-Mariner/Namor)
- Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Thing/Ben Grimm)
- Simu Liu (Shang-Chi)
- Florence Pugh (Black Widow/Yelena Belova)
- Kelsey Grammer (Beast/Hank McCoy)
- Lewis Pullman (The Sentry/Bob Reynolds)
- Danny Ramirez (Falcon/Joaquin Torres)
- Joseph Quinn (Human Torch/Johnny Storm)
- David Harbour (Red Guardian/Alexei Shostakov)
- Winston Duke (M’Baku)
- Hanna John-Kamen (Ghost/Ava Starr)
- Tom Hiddleston (Loki)
- Patrick Stewart (Professor X/Charles Xavier)
- Ian McKellen (Magneto/Erik Lensherr)
- Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner)
- Rebecca Romijn (Mystique/Raven Darkholm)
- James Marsden (Cyclops/Scott Summers)
- Channing Tatum (Gambit/Remy LeBeau)
- Pedro Pascal (Mr. Fantastic/Reed Richards)
- Robert Downey Jr. (Doctor Doom/Victor Von Doom)
This is not a definitive list of all the actors who will appear in the film, but it is a good indication of who will be featured the most. Marvel is also likely keeping some under wraps if they want to have surprise cameos.
Suspicious By Their Absence
There are quite a few names you might expect to be on the list who aren’t. Some of the most obvious ones would be Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury, Brie Larsen as Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers, and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye/Clint Barton.
Also, most of the cast from the original 2000 film X-Men will be returning. Longtime fans may remember that Cyclops, Jean Grey, and Xavier were killed off in the original X-Men trilogy, while Magneto was severely depowered. Likely, these will simply be variants of these characters from other universes.