Disney had a night packed with movie and streaming announcements, including the Star Wars: Starfighter trailer, Zootopia 3 and The Incredibles 3 reveals, the Frozen 3 trailer and so much more. But during the entertainment showcase on Friday night in Anaheim, there was also some big Marvel Cinematic Universe news.
Here are the biggest Marvel reveals from Disney’s D23 fan convention.
X-Men Cast revealed
The cast for the upcoming X-Men movie was finally announced, with Marvel chief Kevin Feige joined by Sadie Sink to bring them all out on stage. Sink plays Jean Grey — as revealed during Spider-Man: Brand New Day — and we also found out that alongside Kit Connor as Cyclops/Scott Summers and Samara Weaving as Emma Frost, we’ll get Christopher Abbott as Professor Charles Xavier, Inde Navarrette as Rogue and Maya Boyd as Ororo Munroe/Storm.
Adam Driver appeared via video link to tease that he would be playing Magneto, before eventually admitting he was cast as Nathaniel Milbury — one of the many names for X-Men villain Mr. Sinister.
The role of Storm has been an especially hot topic, with rumors flying for months on who would get the gig. Storm’s history with the X-Men and the Avengers is legendary, as the powerful weather-manipulating hero has fought plenty of battles alongside them, as part of the X-Men, and while apart from them. In the comics, she married the king of Wakanda and became queen, was part of the Secret Wars story as a minion of Doctor Doom and gained abilities from Asgard to become a Thor.
With such a seasoned track record in Marvel’s multiple stories and realities, once Storm is introduced to the MCU, it’s possible for her to show up anywhere. Given Sink’s Jean Grey’s appearance in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the X-Men may show up in other MCU films, and are confirmed to be in the next big crossover film, Doomsday.
The X-Men film will hit the big screen on May 5, 2028.
Avengers: Doomsday trailer
Joining Feige on stage to introduce the Avengers: Doomsday trailer were Robert Downey Jr (Victor Von Doom), Chris Evans (back as Steve Rogers) and Hayley Atwell (Peggy Carter). They noted that the movie will feature not only the Avengers but also the Fantastic Four and the original X-Men.
The star-studded trailer included Victor Von Doom easily fighting off Chris Hemsworth’s Thor. The trailer ended with Doctor Doom raising Sentinel robots, which have been deployed against the X-Men in movies and comics.
We also saw glimpses of Simu Liu (Shang-Chi), Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Vanessa Kirby (Sue Storm) and Ian McKellan (Magneto) — and even Steve Rogers holding a baby.
Via video, Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), speaking to an off-stage Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool), also begged to be included in Avengers: Doomsday, but Feige didn’t make it sound as though that would be a possibility.
Avengers: Doomsday is out in cinemas on Dec. 18.
A trailer for VisionQuest
Aside from a trailer during Disney upfronts in May, we had yet to see footage from the new series starring Paul Bettany as Vision and James Spader as Ultron.
Bettany and Spader joined Feige to announce the VisionQuest trailer, which kicks off with Vision seeing a W+V heart carved into a table and looking quizzically at it. He has been reanimated and is watching old footage of himself from both Avengers and WandaVision, including his children, Billy and Tommy Maximoff (we last saw the kids in Agatha All Along, so we know they’re out there somewhere).
“In the Marvel universe, no one is ever really dead,” Bettany said. “What, or perhaps who, is he exactly? And what is it that makes us human?”
VisionQuest hits Disney Plus on Oct. 14.
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