Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Doomsday” has started production.
And to honor the super-heroic moment, Marvel Studios hosted a livestream of … chairs. Now, mind you, they are director-type chairs with the name of the actors on the back, and in an over-six-hour livestream the main “Doomsday” cast was revealed. The whole thing wrapped up with Robert Downey, Jr., appearing in person and sitting down in the final seat. He will be the big bad, Doctor Doom, in the new movie.
The cast includes:
- Chris Hemsworth, returning as Thor
- Vanessa Kirby, who plays Sue Storm in the upcoming “Fantastic Four: First Steps” (in theaters this summer)
- Anthony Mackie, the current Captain America (his “Captain America: Brave New World” opened earlier this year)
- Letitia Wright (the new Black Panther)
- Recent Oscar nominee Sebastian Stan, who plays Bucky Barnes aka the Winter Soldier (he’ll star in bad guy team-up movie “Thunderbolts” in May)
- Paul Rudd, who plays Ant-Man in multiple films
- Wyatt Russell, who will reprise his “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” role of John Walker in “Thunderbolts”
- Tenoch Huerta Mejía, who played antagonist Namor in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
- Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who will play Ben Grimm, aka The Thing, in...