After a five plus hour live-streaming event which from what I was told consisted of mostly looking at chairs, the folks at Marvel Studios have officially announced some of the casting and that production has officially begun on the upcoming epic “Avengers: Doomsday”. A shortened clip is embedded below for your consumption and the revealed casting so far is below but not much else was disclosed. I’ll return at the close with some editorial rumblings.

The Premise: No synopsis is available at this time.

The Cast and Characters:
Chris Hemsworth as Thor
Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman
Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Captain America
Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes
Letitia Wright as Shuri/Black Panther
Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man
Wyatt Russell as John Walker/U.S. Agent
Tenoch Huerta Mejía as Namor
Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing
Simu Liu as Xu Shang-Chi
Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova
Kelsey Grammer as Hank McCoy/Beast
Lewis Pullman as Bob/Sentry
Danny Ramirez as Joaquin Torres/Falcon
Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/Human Torch
David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian
Winston Duke as M’Baku
Hannah John-Kamen as Ava Starr/Ghost
Tom Hiddleston as Loki
Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier/Professor X
Ian McKellen as Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto
Alan Cumming as Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler
Rebecca Romijn as Raven Darkhölme/Mystique
James Marsden as Scott Summers/Cyclops
Channing Tatum as Remy LeBeau/Gambit
Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic
Robert Downey Jr. as Victor von Doom/Doctor Doom

Additional actors slated to appear in the film are Chris Evans in an undisclosed role, Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye, Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Stephen Strange, Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, and Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter.

PiercingMetal Thoughts: Editorial thoughts are forthcoming.

Official Film Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers%3A_Doomsday