Doomsday news
Cast reveals, trailers and release news. Every story links its source, and rumors are labelled as rumors.
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Unnamed insiders claim a new trailer will land in November, one of them before November 19. Marvel hasn't announced anything yet.
Unconfirmed: treat it as a rumor until Marvel says otherwise.
Marvel Studios revealed a world tour with a countdown clock. The stops are Las Vegas, São Paulo, Gold Coast, Rome, London, Seoul, Shanghai, Toronto and Los Angeles. Dates for each city weren't given at launch.
Forbes reports worldwide presales above $125 million about seven weeks before release. US presales had already passed $50 million by early September, after sales opened in July for premium screens and in mid-August for all theaters.
Photo: Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 3.0Patrick Stewart died on October 28 at his home in Los Angeles. Marvel Studios paid tribute and confirmed that Avengers: Doomsday will be his last on-screen appearance as Charles Xavier, a role he first played in 2000.
Photo: Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 2.0Insider Daniel Richtman claims test-screening viewers loved Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom and singled out James Marsden's Cyclops. He also says that cut ran about 2 hours 50 minutes with one post-credits scene. Marvel hasn't commented.
Unconfirmed: treat it as a rumor until Marvel says otherwise.
A new spot built around the line "Stand together" mixes earlier footage with new shots, including Scott Lang and three Captain Americas arguing in the same room.
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At Disney's D23 in Anaheim, Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell and Robert Downey Jr. introduced a special look showing Doom stopping Stormbreaker and raising Sentinels, with Sue Storm narrating his past. Tickets opened at all US theaters the same day, alongside a new poster.
At D23, Marvel introduced the cast of its new X-Men film, due May 5, 2028: Sadie Sink (Jean Grey), Kit Connor (Cyclops), Christopher Abbott (Professor X), Samara Weaving (Emma Frost), Inde Navarrette (Rogue), Maya Boyd (Storm) and Adam Driver (Mister Sinister). None of them has been announced for Doomsday, whose X-Men are the original Fox-era team.
Photo: Direwolf73 · CC BY-SA 2.0Kevin Feige and the Russo brothers led Marvel's Hall H panel with 16 Doomsday cast members, including Downey, Evans, Rudd, Mackie, Marsden and Wright. Hayley Atwell confirmed she's back as Peggy Carter, and the room saw exclusive footage.
Marvel released the first full trailer and opened US presales at Infinity Vision theaters the same day. Reports at the time put the runtime at about 165 minutes, subject to change.
Photo: 4DX · CC BY 3.0Marvel showed Doomsday footage to theater owners at CinemaCon, where Disney unveiled Infinity Vision, a label for premium large-format screens, after IMAX screens went to Dune: Part Three on the same date. A day later Kathryn Newton confirmed she's back as Cassie Lang.
The fourth teaser centers on Wakanda: a grieving Shuri, M'Baku as king, Ben Grimm meeting the Wakandans, and Namor in a comics-style costume beside Namora.
The third teaser brings back Ian McKellen's Magneto, Patrick Stewart's Xavier and James Marsden's Cyclops in a comics-style suit, around a ruined X-Mansion, and ends on a Sentinel.
