{"id":1948,"date":"2025-03-28T00:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T00:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2025-03-28T00:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T00:03:07","slug":"disney-unveils-avengers-doomsday-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=1948","title":{"rendered":"Disney unveils &#8216;Avengers: Doomsday&#8217; cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Disney&#8217;s Marvel Studios on Wednesday revealed the bumper cast of its next Avengers film, six years after Avengers: Endgame became the highest-grossing movie of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are among those surprisingly returning to the superhero roster for Avengers: Doomsday, out May 2026.<\/p>\n<p>They will join a raft of widely expected fan favorites, including Robert Downey Jr and Chris Hemsworth, a viral five-hour-long video announcement confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Marvel superhero films are comfortably the most lucrative franchise in Hollywood history, having collectively made more than $30 billion.<\/p>\n<p>As its title suggests, Avengers: Doomsday is intended to be an ensemble blockbuster event in the style of the franchise&#8217;s pinnacle, 2019&#8217;s Avengers: Endgame, which grossed $2.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Endgame was briefly the highest-grossing movie in history, before the original Avatar reclaimed its crown with a theatrical re-release.<\/p>\n<p>Like Endgame, Doomsday will again team up characters and wrap up storylines in a grand finale to more than a dozen preceding Marvel films.<\/p>\n<p>While several returning superheroes \u2013 and the actors playing them \u2013 had been previously announced, Marvel revealed the whole set in a live-streamed video.<\/p>\n<p>Surprises included octogenarian thespians Stewart and McKellen, who previously appeared in early X-Men films but were thought to have been written out or recast. Returning favourites include Hemsworth&#8217;s Thor, Paul Rudd&#8217;s Ant Man, and Tom Hiddleston&#8217;s Loki.<\/p>\n<p>Actors&#8217; names were written on the backs of Hollywood-style directors&#8217; chairs, with a camera slowly panning from one to the next every 10 to 15 minutes until ending with Downey Jr appearing in-person.<\/p>\n<p>Marvel previously announced that the Oscar winner will return to the franchise as the villainous Doctor Doom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It all leads to Doom. #AvengersDoomsday is now in production,&#8221; said an accompanying message.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s viral unveiling demonstrates how key to Marvel and Disney the success of Avengers: Doomsday \u2013 and 2027 follow-up Avengers: Secret Wars \u2013 will be. The video was watched nearly four million times in its first seven hours. afp<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney&#8217;s Marvel Studios on Wednesday revealed the bumper cast of its next Avengers film, six years after Avengers: Endgame became the highest-grossing movie of all time. Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are among those surprisingly returning to the superhero roster for Avengers: Doomsday, out May 2026. They will join a raft of widely expected fan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}