Doomsday is coming \u2014 not just to theaters, but for New Jersey. <\/p>\n
\u201cAvengers: Doomsday<\/a>,\u201d the highly anticipated Marvel Studios film, will be released in December. Legendary actor Ian McKellen<\/a> said in a recent interview on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/a>” that when he returns as Magneto in the film, he\u2019s taking aim at the Garden State.<\/p>\n \u201cNow, I don\u2019t always understand the story of these movies that I\u2019m in,\u201d McKellen said. \u201cBut in this one, I don\u2019t think I\u2019m spoiling anything by saying that Magneto destroys New Jersey. I\u2019m sorry about that New Jersey, my fault.\u201d <\/p>\n Marvel Studios is infamously tight-lipped about plot details, so it would be quite shocking if McKellen was serious about the Garden State\u2019s destruction. But it wouldn\u2019t be the first time an actor has spoiled a major MCU plot point<\/a>. <\/p>\n McKellen, who has played everyone from King Richard III in \u201cRichard III\u201d to Gandalf in the \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d films, is also beloved for his portrayal of Magneto, the metal-controlling anti-hero of \u201cX-Men\u201d lore. He first played the character in 2000\u2019s \u201cX-Men,\u201d before appearing in three sequels \u2014 most recently in 2014\u2019s \u201cX-Men: Days of Future Past\u201d He is reviving the role comes as part of Disney\u2019s highly anticipated re-introduction of the X-Men in the MCU. <\/p>\n READ MORE: Marvel is officially lost as new \u2018Captain America\u2019 movie is an incredible dud | Review<\/a><\/p>\n Little is known about the plot of \u201cDoomsday,\u201d the first \u201cAvengers\u201d movie since 2019\u2019s \u201cAvengers: Endgame\u201d made more than $2.8 billion and capped off a prolific era of filmmaking for Marvel Studios \u2014 and featured key scenes set in New Jersey. But the return of the X-Men, the Wakandans, the Fantastic Four, Chris Evans\u2019 Captain America and Chris Hemsworth as Thor have all been teased in trailers. Robert Downey Jr., whose iconic performance as Iron Man helped launch the MCU, is returning to the franchise… playing the villainous Dr. Doom<\/a>. <\/p>\n A long-haired McKellen was seen alongside Patrick Stewart\u2019s Charles Xavier (Professor X) in one of the teasers for the film. <\/p>\n \u201cDeath comes for us all, that\u2019s all I know for sure,\u201d McKellen says in the trailer. \u201cThe question isn\u2019t are you prepared to die, the question is who will you be when you close your eyes?\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doomsday is coming \u2014 not just to theaters, but for New Jersey. \u201cAvengers: Doomsday,\u201d the highly anticipated Marvel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-482105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482105","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=482105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}