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  • Chris Evans to return as Captain America in Avengers Doomsday: Report

    Chris Evans to return as Captain America in Avengers Doomsday: Report

    Chris Evans is set to reprise his role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, according to an exclusive report from The Wrap. The actor will apparently feature in the upcoming film Avengers: Doomsday, directed by the Russo Brothers. Robert Downey Jr is also confirmed to join the cast, taking on the role of Victor von Doom, also known as Doctor Doom. Neither Marvel Studios, Evans, nor his representatives have provided official statements regarding the news.

    The Russo Brothers, who have previously worked with Evans and Downey Jr on Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame, will return to direct Avengers: Doomsday as well as its direct sequel, Avengers: Secret Wars.

    Avengers: Doomsday is scheduled for release on May 1, 2026.

    The new Marvel feature project deals with multiple timelines and universes and is expected to reunite many actors from previous and current films. Joe and Anthony Russo are directing Doomsday and 2027’s Avengers: Secret Wars, which will conclude the MCU’s Multiverse Saga.

    They have dropped hints that the films will be connected to the two-part story of 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame. That sets the stage for more reunions which might include Tom Holland as Spider-Man, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk, Brie Larson as Captain Marvel, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye and Paul Rudd as Ant-Man. Avengers: Doomsday is scheduled to premiere on May 1, 2026, with Secret Wars expected to land on May 7, 2027.

    Chris retired from MCU in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame which showed Captain America had aged into an old man and passed the character’s patriotic shield to Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson.

  • Robert Downey Jr to debut on Broadway with McNeal

    Robert Downey Jr to debut on Broadway with McNeal

    Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr is set to make his Broadway debut with McNeal, a new play by Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar. Downey Jr, who recently won his maiden Oscar trophy for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, will play the titular author in the play, which is being staged by Broadway giant Lincoln Center Theater at its Vivian Beaumont Theater. Directed by Bartlett Sher, McNeal is described as a ‘startling and wickedly smart examination of the inescapable humanity — and increasing inhumanity — of the stories we tell’.
    “Good writers borrow, great writers steal. Jacob McNeal (Downey Jr) is a great writer, one of our greatest, a perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. But McNeal also has an estranged son, a new novel, old axes to grind and an unhealthy fascination with Artificial Intelligence,” the official synopsis read.
    Downey Jr will also produce the stage show through his banner Team Downey in collaboration with Lincoln Center Theater. McNeal will begin previews on September 5, and will play a strictly limited engagement from September 30 to November 24.

  • Robert Downey Jr partners with HBO Max to produce 2 Sherlock Holmes Spin-Offs

    Robert Downey Jr partners with HBO Max to produce 2 Sherlock Holmes Spin-Offs

    Before Benedict Cumberbatch made his name synonymous with Sherlock Holmes, just a year before that (2009), it was Robert Downey Jr who played the character and was highly loved for it. The actor played the iconic British spy based on the books and his version of him did bring footfalls to the theatres. The biggest mystery around the franchise has been the future and possibility of the third movie. But looks like, while RDJ is moving slowly with the threequel, he is also expanding the Holmes universe.

    For the unversed, RDJ known for his role as Iron Man aka Tony Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe played the iconic detective in 2 movies. Sherlock Holmes (2009) and A Game Of Shadow (2011). Based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel, the movies went on to earn $524 Million and $544 Million respectively. A third Holmes movie featuring Robert and to be directed by Dexter Fletcher is in development. But while that awaits on the back burner to be resurrected, Robert Downey Jr has joined hand with HBO Max to make two spinoff shows to Sherlock Holmes, expanding the Detective universe further. Read on to know everything you should about it at the same time.