With the overwhelming quantity of actors leaping into the Avengers: Doomsday forged — like, hey, did you see the livestream?! — it’s a fairly pure step to suppose that perhaps, simply perhaps, Halle Berry would return to the X-Men and reprise her iconic function as Storm. Sadly, it appears as if that stunning principle will not be figuring out the way in which followers hoped.
“We wish to see your title on a chair for Avengers: Doomsday, we wish Storm,” Black Girl Nerds told Berry on the red carpet at CinemaCon in Las Vegas recently, to which the Never Let Go star replied with a chuckle and: “maintain ready. Not gonna be there.”
Fans have been desirous to see Berry make her first official look within the MCU because it stands in the present day, even earlier than the Avengers: Doomsday forged reveal. She first appeared as Ororo Munroe, also called Storm, in Bryan Singer’s 2000 adaptation of X-Men, the place she starred alongside a now iconic ensemble forged of Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, James Marsden, Anna Paquin, Rebecca Romjin, Ray Park, Famke Janssen, and Bruce Davidson. She went on to reprise her function in 2003’s X2, 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand, and 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Each of those movies have been produced by twentieth Century Fox earlier than they have been bought by Disney and built-in into the present MCU — so followers gave the impression to be actually holding out hope that she would lastly make an official look inside Marvel’s new world.
Then got here final month’s Avengers: Doomsday forged reveal, which 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 seem in Avengers: Doomsday, confirming the X-Men are within the movie in an enormous method. Grammer famously performed Beast within the Fox X-Men franchise earlier than making his MCU debut by way of The Marvels’ post-credits scene. Stewart performed Charles Xavier/Professor X within the X-Men movies earlier than showing briefly within the MCU by way of Doctor Strange within the Multiverse of Madness as a member of the Illuminati. McKellen, who performed Magneto, has but to seem 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?
And then, Marvel and Robert Downey Jr. teased they’re not performed but, which led followers to imagine the likes of Halle Berry and different former X-Men actors who did not make the lower nonetheless had an opportunity.
Berry’s subsequent official look on the massive display screen, nevertheless, is a movie known as Crime 101, that includes Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, Monica Barbaro, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Nick Nolte. It is claimed to be releasing someday this yr.
Lex Briscuso is a movie and tv critic and a contract leisure author for IGN. You can comply with her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
