Kevin Feige’s Marvel safety lockdown has sprung a leak … and the offender is not who you’d assume it’s. Usually, typical suspects like Mark Ruffalo and Tom Holland could be on the middle of the newest spoiler controversy. And in relation to what’s prone to be the most important blockbuster in your complete Marvel Cinematic Universe, nicely, one would assume that your complete ensemble solid of “Avengers: Doomsday” would’ve signed NDAs and sworn oaths of secrecy and perhaps even undergone a blood pact or two. Sadly, no one knowledgeable returning “X-Men” actor and present “The Traitors” host Alan Cumming that that is all very, very critical enterprise.
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Cumming famously portrayed the mutant Kurt Wagner aka Nightcrawler in 2003’s “X2: X-Men United,” stealing the present in that White Home invasion sequence as he teleported from one a part of the constructing to a different, and that countless “Doomsday” casting video confirmed his return (together with a number of different members of twentieth Century Studios’ authentic “X-Men” films). So, followers had been already conscious that this occasion movie would pit our typical MCU heroes and sure holdovers from the earlier “X-Men” franchise in an enormous mashup towards the likes of Robert Downey Jr.’s Physician Doom … however some other specifics in regards to the plot have been saved below lock and key. Nicely, if solely these Marvel snipers knew to maintain somebody as affable and charming as Cumming of their goal sights.
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The celebrated actor sat down for a current interview and inadvertently revealed some fairly intriguing plot specifics in regards to the upcoming movie — similar to the truth that the story will contain the Avengers (and the Incredible 4) combating the X-Men. Granted, it is extra like affirmation of what everybody in all probability assumed already. Nonetheless, outdoors of a stray occasion of leaked idea artwork, administrators Joe and Anthony Russo and the remainder of the film’s artistic crew have saved a reasonably tight lid on issues. We’ll take no matter insights we are able to get at this level, although.
Alan Cumming confirms Doomsday shall be an Avengers vs X-Men film
Within the secretive espionage world of film spoilers, plot leaks can come from the unlikeliest of sources — together with, apparently, Scottish sweetheart Alan Cumming. In a sit-down interview with BuzzFeedUK, Cumming answered an innocuous query about his most shocking roles over the course of his profession. Along with his sometimes dry wit, he revealed that he is been present process stunt coaching for “Avengers: Doomsday” as he reprises the character of Nightcrawler … however he went one step additional than Feige in all probability would’ve favored. I am going to let him spill the beans for himself:
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“I used to be studying stunts yesterday for some combat scene and I am pondering, ‘I am 60 years outdated. 23 years in the past, I performed that superhero [Nightcrawler]. I used to be type of outdated for a superhero even then [laughs], however now I am again doing it. That, to me, is hilarious. I am form of studying these fights and I am like, ‘What? Who am I combating with?’ And so they stated, ‘You are hitting Pedro Pascal towards the pinnacle,’ or one thing.”
Ah, sure, we in all probability ought to’ve identified that the age-outdated complications of performing a completely VFX-pushed combat scene would find yourself coming again to chew Marvel the place the solar do not shine. Like numerous actors earlier than him, Cumming appears to have struggled with the thought of a person of his age punching imaginary targets and tennis balls suspended from growth mics. However, clearly, his allusion to Pascal provides away the sport that the outdated guard of X-Men characters might very nicely be teaming up towards each our Avengers groups (which now consists of a number of factions after “Thunderbolts*”) and the Incredible 4. After all, that is to not say the whole film shall be a recreation of the well-known “Avengers vs X-Men” arc from Marvel Comics, since they’re going to inevitably should put their variations apart to cope with the Physician Doom of all of it.
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Nonetheless, it is good to get some affirmation, even within the type of a wry joke by Cumming, that this subsequent “Avengers” movie shall be fairly the extravaganza. “Avengers: Doomsday” will hit theaters Could 1, 2026.