Final week, Benedict Cumberbatch made the daring declaration that Physician Unusual received’t seem in Avengers: Doomsday—solely to stroll that again and admit that sure, we will be seeing the Sorcerer Supreme in that movie, somewhat than having to attend for Avengers: Secret Wars. His Avengers cohort Chris Evans, the former Captain America, has picked up the thread and stomped throughout it by insisting his time within the Marvel Cinematic Universe is completed, finished, finished.
This newest assertion—made in an Esquire piece (through the Hollywood Reporter) profiling the current Captain America, Anthony Mackie, who has Captain America: Courageous New World popping out February 14—is coming into broken-record territory at this level. Responding to speak of his return, reported within the trades most recently in December 2024, Evans instructed the journal “That’s not true … This all the time occurs. I imply, it occurs each couple years—ever since Endgame. I’ve simply stopped responding to it,” and added that he’s “fortunately retired.”
And it’s true: Evans’ return to the MCU has been rumored for years (in 2023, he did say “never say never” about returning to play Cap, which he known as as “a valuable position to me”)—and Marvel followers technically did get him again, albeit in a jokey tackle his Improbable 4 character Johnny Storm, due to a surprise cameo in final summer time’s Deadpool & Wolverine.
Mackie instructed Esquire he was simply as startled by that December report as everybody else, claiming “I didn’t know! … I used to be like, ‘You understand, they stated they’re bringing everybody again for the film. Are you coming again?’” Apparently, Mackie does a dead-on Evans impression, and stated Evans instructed him precisely what he’d instructed Esquire: “I’m fortunately retired.”
The reality is, Avengers: Doomsday is more likely to stay an enormous ball of thriller till we’re a lot nearer to its Could 2026 launch. What little we find out about it up to now does embrace some MCU returns in administrators the Russo Brothers, and former Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. moving into the position of Physician Doom. However you’ll be able to assure all the massive, juicy Marvel secrets and techniques—like, say, Chris “I’m Retired” Evans dusting off his Cap costume, or maybe portraying one other character totally (in all probability not Johnny Storm, although)—will keep tightly beneath wraps till audiences are seated in theaters.
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