Even earlier than San Diego Comic-Con’s shock information that Robert Downey Jr. was again within the MCU as Doctor Doom, we’d heard rumblings that Marvel Studios was making an attempt to convey again a couple of of its first Avengers for one more team-up. Now, it is perhaps one step nearer.
The Wrap experiences that Chris Evans has joined the solid of Avengers: Doomsday, however intriguingly, the outlet notes that there’s no strong particulars but as to the character of his position. That might, probably, imply that Evans is not reprising his position as Steve Rogers, the primary Captain America—however like Downey is returning in one other position by multiversal shenanigans, as he did to reprise the position of Fantastic Four‘s Johnny Storm in Deadpool & Wolverine.
This wouldn’t be the primary time Evans has been rumored to make a comeback after we noticed Steve develop previous and retire (through a bit of time stone trickery) within the climax of Avengers: Endgame, passing on the defend to Sam Wilson for Falcon and the Winter Soldier and subsequent February’s Captain America: Brave New World. Evans beforehand publicly denied a report in 2021 that he’d be returning for a then-upcoming Marvel mission, and within the wake of the aforementioned experiences about Avengers returning being on the playing cards final yr, he as soon as once more professed that his time within the MCU was finished.
“No one’s spoken to me about it,” Evans advised The View on the time. “And look, I’d by no means say by no means, however I actually—I’m very protecting. It’s a really treasured position to me, so it must be excellent.”
Perhaps Evans has lastly been supplied one thing excellent. Or maybe a big, giant sum of money. Maybe even each!
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