It’s official: Shang-Chi is coming again to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The large Avengers: Doomsday livestream revealed that Simu Liu would in reality be returning for the upcoming ensemble movie — however due to how tight-lipped Marvel Studios is about potential spoilers, he was fairly quiet himself about the truth that his identify was going to indicate up on the again of a chair alongside different MCU greats.
Last month’s Avengers: Doomsday solid reveal was heavy on veteran X-Men actors. Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, and James Marsden are all now set to look in Avengers: Doomsday, confirming the X-Men are within the movie in an enormous approach. Grammer famously performed Beast within the Fox X-Men franchise earlier than making his MCU debut through The Marvels’ post-credits scene. Stewart performed Charles Xavier/Professor X within the X-Men movies earlier than showing briefly within the MCU through Doctor Strange within the Multiverse of Madness as a member of the Illuminati. McKellen, who performed Magneto, has but to look within the MCU. Neither has Cumming, who performed Nightcrawler, Romijn, who performed Mystique, nor Marsden, who performed Cyclops. It begs the query: is Avengers: Doomsday secretly an Avengers vs. X-Men film?
“I knew I used to be going to be concerned in it to some capability,” Liu defined of the movie throughout a recent appearance on the Jennifer Hudson Show. “But I did not know who else they had been saying. They do not inform us something. Tom Holland and Mark Ruffalo ruined it for all of us. Now, they do not inform us.”
Liu is in fact referring to the now notorious leaks from Holland concerning the MCU’s Spider-Man collection through the years and Ruffalo’s penchant for gifting away all method of plot factors surrounding the Avengers. In the years since these hilarious snafus have taken over the information cycle, the Marvel bosses have completely made it some extent to maintain spoilers away, not simply from the famous blabbermouths of the MCU, however from all solid members new and outdated.
The actor, who additionally had a featured position as one of many Kens in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, was additionally shocked to see a few of the names that had been set to look alongside him. “I noticed when Sir Ian and Sir Patrick had been introduced,” he stated through the interview. “These are two of the best actors to have ever walked the face of the Earth. That blew my thoughts somewhat bit.”
Liu first appeared as Shang-Chi in Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings in 2021, however has but to see the character return to the large or small display screen. Aside from the May 1, 2026 launch date and the myriad of names we now have hooked up to the movie, Avengers: Doomsday is one thing of a thriller at this level. But undoubtedly throughout the subsequent 12 months, extra shall be revealed — spoilers or in any other case.
Meanwhile, MCU followers have additionally turned their inquisitive gaze upon Robert Downey Jr’s hair after the Iron Man actor not too long ago despatched out a Doctor Doom-themed invitation for this sixtieth party.
Lex Briscuso is a movie and tv critic and a contract leisure author for IGN. You can observe her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
