Marvel is announcing the Avengers: Doomsday cast one by one; includes Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, and many more

At 11am this morning, the Marvel Studios social media accounts started live-streaming a video they labeled as an all-caps ANNOUNCEMENT. The video shows a soundstage where, one by one, chairs reserved for actors are being revealed, with a new chair coming into view every 10 minutes or so. We have to assume that this is a very long and slow way of revealing which actors and characters will be in Avengers: Doomsday, which starts filming soon and is aiming for a May 1, 2026 theatrical release.

The first chair belonged to Chris Hemsworth, who has played Thor, the God of Thunder, in Thor, The Avengers, Thor: The Dark World, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Doctor Strange, Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and Thor: Love and Thunder. The second chair was reserved for Vanessa Kirby, who plays Susan Storm (a.k.a. Invisible Woman) in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which will be reaching theatres on July 25th. The third chair was for Anthony Mackie, who has played Sam Wilson (a.k.a. The Falcon, a.k.a. Captain America) in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, and Captain America: Brave New World.

The fourth name revealed was Sebastian Stan, who has played James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes in Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Brave New World, and Thunderbolts*, which reaches theatres on May 2nd. The fifth, Letitia Wright, who played Shuri (who eventually became the Black Panther) in Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The sixth chair was a tiny one, since it will be used by Ant-Man, a.k.a. Paul Rudd, who has played Scott Lang in Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Endgame, and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.

The seventh chair confirmed the involvement of Wyatt Russell, who played John Walker (formerly, briefly known as Captain America, now U.S. Agent) in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and the soon-to-be-released Thunderbolts*.

The video still going on as of this writing, so we’ll be updating this article as more names are revealed. You can watch along in the video embedded above.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo, a.k.a. the Russo Brothers, are at the helm of Avengers: Doomsday, working from a screenplay by frequent collaborator Stephen McFeely. They’ll also be directing Avengers: Secret Wars, which will be filming immediately after Doomsday. When these projects were announced, it came with the reveal that both of these movies are going to star Robert Downey Jr. – not as his Tony Stark / Iron Man character from earlier MCU movies, but as the villainous Doctor Doom / Victor von Doom.

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