{"id":391404,"date":"2026-01-06T16:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/391404\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T16:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:19:09","slug":"doomsday-teaser-reveals-patrick-stewart-and-ian-mckellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/391404\/","title":{"rendered":"Doomsday’ teaser reveals Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen"},"content":{"rendered":"

The X-Men<\/a> are now officially on the Marvel chessboard.\n<\/p>\n

Patrick Stewart<\/a>‘s Professor Charles Xavier, Ian McKellen<\/a>‘s Erik Lehnsherr\/Magneto, and James Marsden<\/a>‘s Scott Summers\/Cyclops headline their own Avengers: Doomsday<\/a> teaser, which debuts in an official capacity after a week of online leaks.\n<\/p>\n

The footage offers our first look at these stars reprising their superhero roles from the previous 20th Century Fox era of X-Men movies, now in the Disney-owned Marvel Cinematic Universe.\n<\/p>\n

Following two teasers, one revealing Chris Evans’ return as Steve Rogers<\/a> and another all about Chris Hemsworth’s Thor<\/a>, this new preview reveals Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, a safe haven for young mutants, now in shambles.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

There’s the joyous sight of seeing longtime frenemies Xavier and Magneto playing chess again, their favored pastime from the original X-Men movies, but it’s paired with a more haunting scene of Marsden’s Cyclops. The leader of these superheroes rips off his protective visor and unleashes a catastrophic optic blast.\n<\/p>\n

“Death comes for us all. It’s all I know for sure,” Magneto says. “The question isn’t, ‘Are you prepared to die?’ The question is, ‘Who will you be when you close your eyes?'”\n<\/p>\n

Fans should take note of the new X-suits for these characters. Cyclops dons a more comic-accurate blue-and-yellow uniform, while Xavier wears a black-and-red X symbol on his gray jacket. This particular design was the aesthetic for Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s 2001 New X-Men comics.\n<\/p>\n

Other X-Men characters not seen in this first look but who are confirmed for roles in Avengers: Doomsday include Channing Tatum’s Gambit, Alan Cumming’s Kurt Wagner\/Nightcrawler, Rebecca Romijn’s Mystique, and Kelsey Grammer’s Hank McCoy\/Beast.\n<\/p>\n

Ian McKellen’s Magneto returns in X-Men ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ teaser.<\/p>\n

Marvel Entertainment\/Youtube<\/p>\n

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It’s a move that’s been in the works ever since Disney purchased Fox in a splashy studio-restructuring deal in 2019. Though, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige told Entertainment Weekly<\/a> in 2024, “It took a long time between whenever [the acquisition] was announced to it all getting done, so [the characters] weren’t really in our sandbox for a very long time after that first announcement happened.”\n<\/p>\n

In the lead-up, we’ve seen Grammer’s Beast pop in for The Marvels’ post-credits scene, Stewart’s Xavier prominently featuring in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Deadpool and Wolverine bring a whole host of mutant characters to the MCU.\n<\/p>\n

James Marsden’s Cyclops releases an optic blast in X-Men ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ teaser.<\/p>\n

Marvel Entertainment\/Youtube<\/p>\n

Avengers: Doomsday, directed by Marvel golden children Joe and Anthony Russo, will feature characters from across the multiverse breaking realities in a story involving Robert Downey Jr.’s Victor Von Doom\/Doctor Doom. The plot continues with Avengers: Secret Wars, which Feige said “really leads us into a new age of mutants and of the X-Men<\/a>.”\n<\/p>\n

At that point, Marvel made known plans to recast X-Men characters<\/a> as part of a “reset.”\n<\/p>\n

Doomsday is currently scheduled for Dec. 18, 2026, with Secret Wars coming Dec. 17, 2027. Watch the latest teaser above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The X-Men are now officially on the Marvel chessboard. Patrick Stewart‘s Professor Charles Xavier, Ian McKellen‘s Erik Lehnsherr\/Magneto,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-391404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}