While the new Avengers film is due for reshoots soon, an early cut impressed Marvel executives.
Avengers: Doomsday, either a welcome return to form for the Marvel Cinematic Universe or a desperate Hail Mary pass to try and save a dying franchise, is hitting cinemas on December 17. Directed by series veterans Joe and Anthony Russo, the film sees Robert Downey Jr. return to the MCU not as the late Iron Man, but as classic Marvel villain Doctor Doom, normally a Fantastic Four adversary.
The draw is that pretty much everyone – bar a few stony-faced hold outs – is coming back – if they ever had a prominent role in a Marvel flick, there’s a decent chance they’ll be showing up in Avengers: Doomsday. Chris Evans, Christ Hemsworth, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Tom Hiddleston, Florence Pugh, Paul Rudd, Pedor Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Joseph Quinn, Simu Liu, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, and more are all in the mix, with Tom Holland, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Jeremy Renner expected to return. Plus Ian McKellan, Patrick Stewart, and a handful of refugees from the Fox X-Men movies. No Eternals, though, because Christ, why would you? Also no Guardians Of The Galaxy, which is surprising.
So on the plus side, if you want to see all the heroes, step right up. But the risk, of course, is that the film will be overstuffed, with many characters reduced to glorified cameos. Bless Channing Tatum for getting to play Gambit again, but how much could they possibly do with him?
Well, to swing the pendulum back to the positive, according to scooper MyTimeToShineH, “Marvel Studios held a private test screening of the pre-reshoots version of ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ for Kevin Feige and select staff, and they were very pleased with it, some even called it the best Marvel movie yet.”
Robert Meyer Burnett chipped in, noting that the responses were on par to those garnered by Avengers: Infinity War.
This kind of early reaction is worth treating with a degree of skepticism, of course, and the responses are to an early cut of the film. Reshoots are planned to start in the UK soon, but Marvel Studios habitually builds in a few weeks of additional photography, generally to smooth over the joins and, as rumour has it in this case, jam in a few more cameos. But we can start feeling a scooch more optimistic, at least.
MORE IN News
