With work on the movie continuing, Captain America actor Anthony Mackie has said the Avengers: Doomsday cast are still “in the midst of it” and production is “going well”.
Anthony Mackie has revealed the Avengers: Doomsday cast are still “in the midst of it” and production is “going well”.
The 46-year-old actor is set to wield the shield as Captain America once again for the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) blockbuster, and Mackie has now stressed that work on Avengers: Doomsday is ongoing.
When Screen Rant asked the 8 Mile actor if Avengers: Doomsday was close to wrapping production, he said: “No. Hell no. No, we are in the midst of it.
“I mean, it’s such a big, moving set piece, and it’s such a big story. The best part of shooting a Marvel movie is that it’s always an ever-evolving canvas. There are those staple pieces, and then there are the pieces that circulate throughout the course of the shoot.
“So, we’re in the midst of it, but it’s going well.”
Mackie also teased his Captain America would still be “butting heads” with Sebastian Stan’s James ‘Bucky’ Barnes in Avengers: Doomsday.
He said: “I talked to Sebastian yesterday. We’re still butting heads. All we do is fight!”
Avengers: Doomsday – which is due to hit screens on December 18, 2026 – will star Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Paul Rudd as Ant-Man, Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent and Lewis Pullman as Sentry.
The Fantastic Four will also play a big role in Avengers: Doomsday, with Pedro Pascal’s Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby’s Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn’s Human Torch and Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s The Thing all confirmed to be returning for the movie.
As well as the Avengers and the Fantastic Four, Avengers: Doomsday will see the return of many major X-Men stars, including Sir Patrick Stewart’s Professor X, James Marsden’s Cyclops, Rebecca Romijn’s Mystique, Kelsey Grammer’s Beast, Alan Cumming’s Nightcrawler and Channing Tatum’s Gambit.
Although exact plot points about Avengers: Doomsday are unknown, the movie will likely follow the Avengers, the New Avengers, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men as they desperately try to stop Doctor Doom (Robert Downey Jr.) from carrying out his catastrophic plans for the Multiverse.
Mackie – who most recently starred as the Star-Spangled Man in Captain America: Brave New World – teased Avengers: Doomsday would see “a chaotic destruction of the world”.
He told Extra: “From my movie, we went out building on top of that to this just being a chaotic destruction of the world.”
The actor also said Avengers: Doomsday – which is being directed by Joe and Anthony Russo – would be “carrying over” the poignancy and depth of the last moments from 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, in which Iron Man (Downey Jr.) sacrifices himself to save the universe, and Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) finally gets to lay down the shield and grow old with Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell).
He explained: “When you look at the Marvel characters in the universe that we’ve created, there’s an idealistic nature of the type of story you want and the type of you want coming from those films.
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, that last moment in Endgame was probably one of the most poignantly realistic moments in film history. That was a true Marvel moment.
“I don’t think any other studio, any other directors, any other group of actors could have contextually put that moment together and made it that real.
“That being said, I think this is a lot of carrying over, feel, and depth of that moment coming into the new universe.”
Avengers: Doomsday gets update from Captain America star Anthony Mackie
