{"id":390829,"date":"2026-01-06T02:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/390829\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T02:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:39:17","slug":"report-another-og-avengers-star-returning-for-doomsday-secret-wars-comic-book-movies-and-superhero-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/390829\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Another OG Avengers Star Returning for Doomsday &#038; Secret Wars &#8211; Comic Book Movies and Superhero Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new report, an original star from some of the earliest movies in the MCU may be returning for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/tag\/avengers-doomsday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Avengers: Doomsday<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/tag\/avengers-secret-wars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Secret Wars<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>What Avengers star is returning for Doomsday and Secret Wars?<\/p>\n<p>According to a new report from insider Daniel Richtman, Gwyneth Paltrow, who played Pepper Potts throughout the Iron Man films and subsequent early Avengers movies, could be back. Richtman notes that she\u2019s expected to return in some capacity for both Doomsday and Secret Wars. <\/p>\n<p>Currently, it\u2019s unclear exactly what her role in the movie will be. With Robert Downey Jr.\u2019s Iron Man not back, it\u2019s unknown what Potts\u2019 role in the next two big movies might be. However, Paltrow is one of several former stars who will be returning, including 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 set to release on December 18, 2026. Avengers: Secret Wars is set to release a year later, on December 17, 2027. <\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/147427515?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&amp;utm_content=android_share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Richtman<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a new report, an original star from some of the earliest movies in the MCU may&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3076,3077,49,48,3494,75,1542,3078,3079,3080,2015,337],"class_list":["post-390829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-avengers-doomsday","tag-avengers-secret-wars","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-gwyneth-paltrow","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\/390829","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=390829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}