{"id":59770,"date":"2025-08-11T10:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59770\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T10:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:43:09","slug":"james-marsden-opens-up-about-reprising-x-men-role-in-gigantic-new-avengers-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59770\/","title":{"rendered":"James Marsden opens up about reprising X-Men role in \u2018gigantic\u2019 new Avengers movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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James Marsden<\/a> has described playing Cyclops in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday<\/a> as a \u201chomecoming to a role that really put me on the map.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Paradise star, 51, first played the superhero and his alter-ego Scott Summers in Bryan Singer\u2019s X-Men in 2000.<\/a><\/p>\n

He returned to the role in sequels X2: X-Men United (2003) and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). Despite the fact that the character was killed off in the latter movie, he returned to play a cameo role in 2014\u2019s time-traveling X-Men: Days of Future Past. <\/a><\/p>\n

He will play Cyclops once again in the upcoming Marvel epic, alongside a host of other X-Men stars, including Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto) and Rebecca Romijn (Mystique).<\/p>\n

Speaking to Vanity Fair<\/a>, Marsden joked that he\u2019s \u201cgetting a little long in the tooth to put on the superhero costume.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cI was excited because you’re a part of something gigantic, and I’ve spent 20 years listening to people say, \u2018When are you coming back? When are you coming back? Are you coming back?\u2019 I’m dead. Well, maybe not.<\/p>\n

\"JamesJames Marsden at the premiere of ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ in New York in May 2014 (Mike Coppola\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m going to have a tough time struggling to get into costume if they waited a couple more years. So it’s been a blast. It really has. It’s been a nice little homecoming to a role that really put me on the map. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the first real event project that I was ever a part of, and a very beloved character, this icon from the comics. And so to step back into that role was pretty special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month, fans expressed concern after Romijn confirmed that Avengers: Doomsday, despite filming for several months, does not have a finished script.<\/a><\/p>\n

The film is expected to feature characters from films including The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Thunderbolts, and Black Panther teaming up with the X-Men to battle super-villain Doctor Doom.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the San Diego Comic Con, Romijn was asked whether she had finished filming Doomsday, and replied that she wasn\u2019t sure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe script hasn\u2019t \u2013 they haven\u2019t finished writing it,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s been very, very fun, and we don\u2019t know yet. They keep everything very close to the vest themselves in an effort to keep everything under wraps.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marvel announced in May that Doomsday has been delayed from its originally announced release date<\/a> of May 1, 2026, to December 18, 2026.<\/p>\n

In 2024, it was announced that Doctor Doom will be played in the movie \u2013 and its 2027 follow-up Avengers: Secret Wars \u2013 by Robert Downey Jr, who previously portrayed Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-59770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}