Benedict Cumberbatch isn't keeping secrets on 'Avengers: Doomsday' (because he's not going to be in the movie)
Benedict Cumberbatch reveals that Doctor Strange won't be in 'Avengers: Doomsday.' Also, he was just as surprised as anyone by Robert Downey's MCU return.
Doctor Strange is going on hiatus in the next Marvel sequel, âAvengers: Doomsday,â according to a spoiler-happy, secret-spilling Benedict Cumberbatch.
âIs that a spoiler?â the actor asked Variety in a recent interview. âFâ it!â
Speaking of no effs to give, the Oscar-nominated âThe Imitation Gameâ and âThe Power of the Dogâ star also helped explain a âgood WTF,â thanks to Marvel and Robert Downey Jr.âs surprise announcement at Comic-Con last summer that Downey would be returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as someone other than Iron Man.
Cumberbatch found out about Downeyâs Marvel homecoming while watching live coverage of the 2024 Comic-Con presentation. So, according to Variety, he immediately grabbed his phone and sent a message to Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige.
âI texted, âWhat the fâ?â and then quickly added, âGood what-the-fâ. I mean, good what-the-fâ,ââ the 48-year-old star told the outlet.
For Cumberbatch, Downeyâs return is a good WTF that would keep things light on set, despite the pressure of making the multimillion-dollar movies, he said. The British actor, whose parents also were thespians, told Variety that Downey would refer to him as âMr. Shakespeareâ and make quips about them both playing literary detective Sherlock Holmes onscreen. (Unfortunately, a meta line about their past roles didnât make it into the film, he said.)
The âSherlockâ and âStar Trek Into Darknessâ star, who joined the MCU with 2016âs âDoctor Strange,â said watching Downey play billionaire playboy Tony Stark and hearing his banter with Spider-Man Tom Holland in 2017âs âSpider-Man: Homecomingâ helped him take a looser approach to his character, whom he believes he played too stiffly in early appearances.
âI learned a lot by seeing how at ease and improvisatory they are,â Cumberbatch said. âItâs hard because you have this huge apparatus around you, but itâs so important.ââŻâŻ
Cumberbatch, along with his SunnyMarch production company, has been leaning slightly toward âEuropean sort of world cinemaâ with his latest projects, including âThe Thing With Feathers, which premieres at this weekâs Sundance Film Festival, and Netflixâs âEricâ and âRoses.â Although the Marvel films take time away from his auteur-driven projects, Cumberbatch describes the franchise â with its 34 films and counting â as âthe modern myths of our timesâ and appreciates how the epics âtransportâ audiences to different worlds.
âYes, itâs huge and unwieldy, but Marvel is so committed to getting it right,â Cumberbatch said. âEven when we make one of these Avengers films and it gets exponentially huger, weâre still just kids playing in the sand pit. Weâre still just making sâ up and having fun with it.â
Oscar winner Downey famously launched the blockbuster MCU when he starred as the title superhero in the 2008 comic-book adaptation âIron Man.â He concluded his run as the lead Avenger when his character sacrificed himself to save the universe in 2019âs âAvengers: Endgame.â Downey is set to take on the role of the villainous Victor von Doom, a.k.a. âDoctor Doom,â a character who originated in Marvelâs âFantastic Fourâ comic books. The new villain in âDoomsdayâ is believed to be a variant of Stark, according to reports.
Alas, with all that groundwork to lay, rebooted âFantastic Fourâ characters to introduce this summer and a reported return of Chris Evans to the MCU, âDoomsdayâ is getting awfully crowded. So, it appears, Cumberbatchâs neurosurgeon-turned-Sorcerer Supreme will not return in the May 2026 film. Although âmomentarily horrified by his candorâ about that plot point, Cumberbatch proceeded to spill the beans about the ultra-secretive studioâs plans for the next phase of Marvel movies.
The actor explained that much had to change when Jonathan Majors was fired last year after being convicted of assault. Majors, who played the enigmatic villain Kang the Conqueror, was lined up to be the main antagonist in the upcoming installments, but the studio had to pivot after letting him go.
Enter: Downeyâs big bad Doctor Doom. With that reshuffle, Cumberbatch, whose character last appeared in 2022âs âDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,â said he wonât be in âDoomsdayâ because his character is ânot aligning with this part of the story.â
Again acknowledging that he probably shouldnât be saying it, Cumberbatch revealed that his Doctor Strange is âin a lotâ of the âDoomsdayâ sequel âAvengers: Secret Wars,â which is slated for theatrical release in 2027. Both films will be directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, who co-directed the climactic âInfinity Warâ and âEndgameâ installments.
â[Doctor Strange is] quite central to where things might go,â Cumberbatch said, hinting that the character will appear in a third stand-alone film.
He also praised the Disney-owned studio for being collaborative, saying that it was open to discussing where Doctor Strange goes next, who he would want to write and direct the forthcoming film, and what part of the characterâs comic lore he would want to explore âso that Strange can keep evolving.â
âHeâs a very rich character to play. Heâs a complex, contradictory, troubled human whoâs got these extraordinary abilities, so thereâs potent stuff to mess about with,â Cumberbatch said.
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