{"id":38742,"date":"2025-08-01T06:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/38742\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T06:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:22:11","slug":"beloved-x-men-star-gives-avengers-doomsday-filming-update-comic-book-movies-and-superhero-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/38742\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved X-Men Star Gives Avengers: Doomsday Filming Update &#8211; Comic Book Movies and Superhero Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A beloved X-Men star who is set to appear in the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/tag\/avengers-doomsday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Avengers: Doomsday<\/a> has offered up a new filming update for the ensemble film.<\/p>\n<p>What is the latest Avengers: Doomsday filming update? <\/p>\n<p>In a recent post on Instagram, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/tag\/Alan-Cumming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Alan Cumming<\/a> \u2014 who played Nightcrawler in the original X-Men films \u2014 revealed that he would be returning to the set of Doomsday for more filming. He announced the move via a few posts on a Story, which featured old scenes of his as the character.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as more information about Doomsday comes out. Recently, reports suggested that Marvel Studios was continuing to work on the film\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/movies\/610533-avengers-doomsday-update-has-fans-worried-about-mcu-movie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">story and development<\/a>, leading many to wonder what the status of the film is.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1024\" width=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image_f75bca.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-616672\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>So far, several major stars from the MCU have been confirmed to be in Avengers: Doomsday\u2019s cast. The movie is led by Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom, but also includes Chris Hemsworth\u2019s Thor,\u00a0Pedro Pascal\u2019s Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby\u2019s Invisible Woman\/Sue Storm,\u00a0Anthony Mackie\u2019s Captain America,\u00a0Sebastian Stan\u2019s Bucky Barnes\/Winter Soldier,\u00a0Letitia Wright\u2019s Shuri\/Black Panther, and\u00a0Paul Rudd\u2019s Ant-Man.<\/p>\n<p>More names for the upcoming movie include\u00a0Wyatt Russell\u2019s U.S. Agent\/John Walker,\u00a0Tenoch Huerta\u2019s Namor,\u00a0Ebon Moss-Bachrach\u2019s The Thing\/Ben Grimm,\u00a0Simu Liu\u2019s Shang-Chi,\u00a0Florence Pugh\u2019s Yelena Belova,\u00a0Kelsey Grammer\u2019s Dr. Hank McCoy\/Beast,\u00a0Lewis Pullman\u2019s Bob\/Sentry,\u00a0Danny Ramirez\u2019s Joaquin Torres\/Falcon,\u00a0Joseph Quinn\u2019s Johnny Storm\/Human Torch,\u00a0David Harbour\u2019s Alexei Shostakov\/Red Guardian,\u00a0Winston Duke\u2018s M\u2019Baku,\u00a0Hannah John-Kamen\u2018s Ava Starr\/Ghost, and\u00a0Tom Hiddleston\u2018s Loki.<\/p>\n<p>Several X-Men characters are also coming back for the upcoming movie, including\u00a0Patrick Stewart\u2018s Charles Xavier,\u00a0Ian McKellen\u2018s Magneto,\u00a0Alan Cumming\u2018s Nightcrawler,\u00a0Rebecca Romijn\u2018s Mystique,\u00a0James Marsden\u2018s Cyclops, and\u00a0Channing Tatum\u2018s Gambit.<\/p>\n<p>Avengers: Doomsday is slated to release in theaters on December 18, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A beloved X-Men star who is set to appear in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday has offered up a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28129,3076,49,48,3494,75,3078,3079,3080,2015,337],"class_list":["post-38742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alan-cumming","tag-avengers-doomsday","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-marvel","tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","tag-marvel-studios","tag-movie-news","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}