Avengers: Doomsday reportedly underwent almost a month of reshoots at the behest of Robert Downey Jr., who stars as Doctor Doom in the upcoming MCU movie.
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During a recent episode of The Hot Mic podcast with Jeff Sneider and John Rocha, Sneider mentioned that he heard Doomsday had to undergo three weeks of reshoots at Downey’s request. The reason why, according to Sneider, is that for three weeks, Downey was not involved in on-set filming.
According to Sneider, during production, there were times when Downey would be present on set to read lines for Doctor Doom, but not be involved in the scenes. In his place, body and face doubles would be standing in the movie. However, Sneider noted, eventually Downey realized the situation was not working, and requested to reshoot the entire three week’s of scenes, with him in the actual Doctor Doom costume.
Sneider notes the report is nothing but a rumor he’s heard when asking about the movie. However, reshoots are no stranger to the world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Sneider also hinted at other “dysfunction” happening on the Doomsday set, but did not go into too specific details.
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The confirmed cast for Avengers: Doomsday is going to be massive. So far, several major stars from the MCU have been confirmed to be in the movie, including Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby’s Invisible Woman/Sue Storm, Anthony Mackie’s Captain America, Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier, Letitia Wright’s Shuri/Black Panther, and Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man.
More names for the upcoming movie include Wyatt Russell’s U.S. Agent/John Walker, Tenoch Huerta’s Namor, Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s The Thing/Ben Grimm, Simu Liu’s Shang-Chi, Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, Kelsey Grammer’s Dr. Hank McCoy/Beast, Lewis Pullman’s Bob/Sentry, Danny Ramirez’s Joaquin Torres/Falcon, Joseph Quinn’s Johnny Storm/Human Torch, David Harbour’s Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian, Winston Duke‘s M’Baku, Hannah John-Kamen‘s Ava Starr/Ghost, and Tom Hiddleston‘s Loki.
Several X-Men characters are also coming back for the upcoming movie, including Patrick Stewart‘s Charles Xavier, Ian McKellen‘s Magneto, Alan Cumming‘s Nightcrawler, Rebecca Romijn‘s Mystique, James Marsden‘s Cyclops, and Channing Tatum‘s Gambit.
Avengers: Doomsday is slated to release in theaters on December 18, 2026.