{"id":29589,"date":"2025-05-23T08:51:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T08:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/marvel-studios-delays-avengers-doomsday-avengers-secret-wars\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T08:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T08:51:21","slug":"marvel-studios-delays-avengers-doomsday-avengers-secret-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/marvel-studios-delays-avengers-doomsday-avengers-secret-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Studios Delays &#8216;Avengers: Doomsday,&#8217; &#8216;Avengers: Secret Wars&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/marvel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marvel\" data-tag=\"marvel\">Marvel<\/a> fans will have to wait a few extra months to see the upcoming onscreen assembly of superheroes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/marvel-studios\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marvel-studios\" data-tag=\"marvel-studios\">Marvel Studios<\/a> and Disney have announced they are pushing back the release dates of <em>Avengers: Doomsday<\/em> and <em>Avengers: Secret Wars<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>Avengers: Doomsday<\/em> has been moved back from May 1, 2026, to Dec. 18, 2026, while its follow-up will now arrive in theaters on Dec. 17, 2027 instead of May 7, 2027. <em>Doomsday<\/em> is currently in production in London and the delay will give directors Joe and Anthony Russo more time to complete the film. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMarvel Studios hasn\u2019t revealed much about the plot of\u00a0<em>Avengers: Doomsday<\/em>, but they did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-news\/avengers-doomsday-cast-full-list-marvel-1235304122\/\">unveil the cast list<\/a> during a five-hour livestream event in March. It\u2019s an expansive list of actors and characters, too: Chris Hemsworth as Thor,\u00a0Tom Hiddleston\u00a0as Loki,\u00a0Anthony Mackie\u00a0as Captain America,\u00a0Sebastian Stan\u00a0as the Winter Soldier, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, James Marsden as Cyclops, Paul Rudd as Ant Man, Letitia Wright as Shuri,\u00a0Wyatt Russel as U.S. Agent, Simu Liu\u00a0 as Shang-Chi, Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, Danny Ramirez as The Falcon, Winston Duke as M\u2019Baku,\u00a0Kelsey Grammer\u00a0as Beast, Lewis Pullman as Sentry, Tenoch Huerta Mej\u00eda as Namor, Joseph Quinn as the Human Torch, David Harbour as Red Guardian, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, Patrick Stewart as Professor X, Ian McKellen as Magneto, Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler, Rebecca Romijin as Mystique, James Marsden as Cyclops, Channing Tatum as Gambit, and Pedro Pascal as Mister Fantastic.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLast summer, Marvel Studios confirmed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/robert-downey-jr\/\" id=\"auto-tag_robert-downey-jr\" data-tag=\"robert-downey-jr\">Robert Downey Jr.<\/a> would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-news\/robert-downey-jr-avengers-doctor-doom-marvel-1235069535\/\">returning to the MCU<\/a> as Doctor Doom (despite his longtime character Iron Man dying in <em>Avengers: Endgame<\/em>). \u201cIf we\u2019re going to bring Doctor Doom to the screen \u2014 he is one of the most complex characters, most entertaining characters in all of fiction,\u201d Joe Russo explained at Comic Con 2024. \u201cIf we\u2019re going to do this\u2026 then we are going to need the greatest actor in the world.\u201d Downey Jr. added, \u201cSame mask, new task.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe next Marvel Studios film to hit theaters will be <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-news\/fantastic-four-first-steps-trailer-silver-surfer-1235319818\/\">The Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/a><\/em>, out July 25. It will be audiences\u2019 first introduction to the new Fantastic Four \u2014 Pascal\u2019s Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby\u2019s Invisible Woman, Quinn\u2019s Human Torch and Ebon Moss-Bachrach\u2019s the Thing.  It also stars Julia Garner as the Silver Surfer and Ralph Ineson as villain Galactus. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel fans will have to wait a few extra months to see the upcoming onscreen assembly of superheroes. Marvel Studios and Disney have announced they are pushing back the release dates of Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. Avengers: Doomsday has been moved back from May 1, 2026, to Dec. 18, 2026, while its follow-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}