The gigantic Avengers: Doomsday cast announcement featured some expected members of the Marvel Cinematic Universe coming back for this big multiversal adventure, including the Thunderbolts* cast members, Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson/Captain America, Letitia Wright’s Shuri/Black Panther, and others. An incredibly unexpected part of the announcement, though, was how many cast members from the 20th Century Fox X-Men movies were back. Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, Kelsey Grammer, James Marsden — they’re all back, and it’s doubtful they’re the only cast members from this franchise returning.
These casting moves mirror how recent MCU movies like Spider-Man: No Way Home and Deadpool & Wolverine crammed their respective run times with cameos from famous stars of classic superhero movies. Plus, Doomsday is a big multiversal adventure, so the X-Men universe crossing over with the MCU isn’t outlandish. However, this is still a disappointing development for the future of the MCU.
Please, Marvel, let these X-Men cast members rest.Remember When the MCU Launched New Superheroes?Nothing suggests a movie franchise is in great shape like announcing the return of a bunch of 50+-year-old actors playing characters they’ve already inhabited as crowdpleaser cameos in another big timeline-colliding blockbuster, X-Men: Days of Future Past. All jokes aside, these X-Men casting announcements are disappointing on multiple fronts, including how they epitomize .
