Marvel Unleashes ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Cast: Chris Hemsworth, David Harbour, Joseph Quinn, Winston Duke, Danny Ramirez, Lewis Pullman, Kelsey Grammer & More

Marvel Studios has assembled a live stunt on social media where it is cycling through actors’ on-set chairs to unveil names of those cast in the Russo brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday.

via: THR

The cast announced so far include MCU mainstays such as Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Anthony Mackie (Captain America), Sebastian Stan (The Winter Soldier), Paul Rudd (Ant-Man), Letitia Wright (Black Panther), Wyatt Russell (U.S. Agent) Simu Liu (Shang-Chi), Florence Pugh (Yelena Belova) and Danny Ramirez (The Falcon).

It also notably includes Kelsey Grammer (Beast), who starred in X-Men: The Last Stand for 20th Century Fox and had a cameo in The Marvels.

Members of the Fantastic Four are also in the cast, including Vanessa Kirby (The Invisible Woman), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Thing) and Joseph Quinn (The Human Torch). While Thunderbolts* newcomer Lewis Pullman (Bob) is on the callsheet, along with star David Harbour (Red Guardian).

Tenoch Huerta Mejía, who played Namor in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, was the first true surprise of the casting event. There were questions over his return to Marvel after he was accused of sexual misconduct in June 2023, claims he denied and “false and completely unsubstantiated.” He dropped out of a Netflix movie amid the media storm, and later appeared as a guest at Marvel’s Echo premiere event, suggesting he and the studio were on good terms.

The mutant cast includes Patrick Stewart, whose Professor Charles Xavier was killed off in both “Logan” and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” but appears to be back; Ian McKellen, who was last seen as Magneto in “X-Men: Days of Future Past”; Kelsey Grammer as Beast, who made a cameo in the post-credits scene of “The Marvels”; Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler from “X2”; James Marsden as Cyclops; and Rebecca Romijn, who originated the shape-shifting role of Mystique before Jennifer Lawrence took it over in the “X-Men” prequels.

Marvel first announced Avengers: Doomsday to fanfare at San Diego Comic-Con in July, with the surprise reveal that Robert Downey Jr. would be returning to the MCU after retiring the role of Iron Man with Endgame. The move reunited Downey, Marvel’s most bankable star, with the Russo Bros., Marvel’s most bankable directors, who likewise had departed the MCU after Endgame.

Marvel boss Kevin Feige first pitched Downey on the idea of returning as Doom, while Downey himself convinced the Russo Bros. to return to the fold after spending the last half decade working in the world of streaming movies. The pair opted to return after their frequent screenwriter collaborator Stephen McFeely pitched them his take.

Doomsday has a release date of May 1, 2026, while followup Avengers: Secret Wars is on the calendar for May 7, 2027.