{"id":657944,"date":"2026-05-09T10:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/657944\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T10:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:09:15","slug":"alan-cumming-on-secret-doomsday-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/657944\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Cumming On Secret &#8220;Doomsday&#8221; Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cumming-on-secret-doomsday-characters.jpg\" data-caption=\"20th Century Studios\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cumming-on-secret-doomsday-characters.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"cumming-on-secret-doomsday-characters\"\/><\/a>20th Century Studios<\/p>\n<p>Alan Cumming has confirmed there are still unrevealed characters in Marvel Studios\u2019 upcoming \u201cAvengers: Doomsday\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/video\/alan-cumming-romy-michele-avengers-doomsday-traitors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>, he says: \u201cSometimes there were secret names because they didn\u2019t want to reveal that a certain character was returning, so they called them something else in the script. It was so confusing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He calls the film \u201csuperhero soup\u201d as \u201cthere\u2019s so many of them in it. I just can\u2019t keep up,\u201d but indicated his experience filming it was great, and leagues better than shooting \u201cX2,\u201d which was a \u201cvery, very wrong\u201d working environment. <\/p>\n<p>The film boasts a massive ensemble of characters with many of them having been revealed, including the \u201cFantastic Four\u201d team, the \u201cThunderbolts\u201d characters, several old school \u201cX-Men\u201d characters, several \u201cBlack Panther\u201d characters and surviving \u201cAvengers\u201d like Thor, Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson\/Captain America along with Robert Downey Jr.\u2019s Doctor Doom.<\/p>\n<p>More interesting are the ones not confirmed at this time including Benedict Cumberbatch\u2019s Doctor Strange, Tom Holland\u2019s Peter Parker\/Spider-Man, Elizabeth Olsen\u2019s Wanda Maximoff\/Scarlet Witch, Brie Larson\u2019s Carol Danvers\/Captain Marvel, Jeremy Renner\u2019s Hawkeye, Oscar Isaac\u2019s Moon Knight, Charlie Cox\u2019s Matt Murdock\/Daredevil, Ryan Reynolds\u2019 Wade Wilson\/Deadpool, Hugh Jackman\u2019s Wolverine, Halle Berry\u2019s Storm, and more.<\/p>\n<p>The comments come as the film\u2019s main star Robert Downey Jr. has made headlines for dismissing talk of influencers, telling the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FmcnCj-_uLA?si=J_j-ilxg8Xas9TXn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conversations for our Daughters<\/a> podcast: \u201cWhen I hear people talk about, \u2018Oh, the stars of the future are going to be influencers,\u2019 I go, \u2018I don\u2019t know what world you\u2019re living in, but I think that that is absolute horses\u2014.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAvengers: Doomsday\u201d is slated to hit cinemas in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"20th Century Studios Alan Cumming has confirmed there are still unrevealed characters in Marvel Studios\u2019 upcoming \u201cAvengers: Doomsday\u201d.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[112110,49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-657944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657944","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=657944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}