US EditionMarvel Replaces Current Captain America, Confirms New "Central Role" for 'Doomsday'
The Russo brothers describe four teasers as narrative clues and confirm Steve Rogers remains central and alive, sparking fan debate over sidelining newer heroes.
- In an interview with Empire via IGN, Anthony Russo discussed Steve Rogers' central role in Avengers: Doomsday, with Joe Russo elaborating further, the Russos confirmed.
- Presented as narrative information rather than trailers, Disney released a quartet of Doomsday teaser pieces in theaters with Avatar: Fire and Ash before posting them online.
- With a combined 1 billion views, Marvel's four Doomsday teaser trailers reintroduced Chris Evans' Steve Rogers alive and a father and showed Ben Grimm meeting Black Panther in Wakanda.
- While Marvel defended the move, Kevin Feige noted past box-office weakness was tied to being 'the first without Chris Evans,' and some fans argued Evans' return risks sidelining newer leads like Sam Wilson.
- With the countdown underway, Marvel is running the live countdown clock for Avengers: Doomsday for the next 10 months, with a full trailer expected later this year and a December 18 theatrical release date.
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Marvel Replaces Current Captain America, Confirms New "Central Role" for 'Doomsday'
After setting up Captain America’s successor in Phases Three, Four, and Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios is seemingly side-stepping this transition and focusing on its original hero. Credit: Marvel Studios The journey to Avengers: Doomsday (2026) has been an interesting one. The fifth Avengers movie originally began life as Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, which was set to center on Jonathan Majors’ Kang Variants. Following the o…
Marvel's Cinematographic Universe has already given the kick-off to its 2026 with Wonder Man at Disney+, but there is a lot of year left in which we will enjoy, among other things, films like Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Although the big date, when the world will stop again by the UCM, is Avengers: Doomsday.The film event will bring back many of the ingredients that were part of the highlight of the franchise, starting with the Russo brothers, who…
Russo Brothers Promise ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Will Push Marvel “Further Than Ever”
Marvel fans believed they had witnessed everything from multiverses crumbling, heroes crashing, to timelines shattering. However, as Anthony and Joe Russo explain, ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ is going to take the Marvel Cinematic Universe somewhere it has never been before. And at the heart of that shift? Robert Downey Jr. not as Iron Man, but as Doctor […] The post Russo Brothers Promise ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Will Push Marvel “Further Than Ever” appear…
The Russos Talk "Doomsday" Cap, Complexity
Joe and Anthony Russo have offered some brief new comments about the upcoming “Avengers: Doomsday” and “Avengers: Secret Wars” films in a new interview with Empire (via Cosmic Marvel. First up, they say the new films aim to narratively be even more complicated than their prior work on “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame”: “As much as we run at the fun of what these films can be, we also run at the complexity and the difficulty of wh…
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