Anthony Mackie believes Avengers: Doomsday – in which he will reprise his role as Sam Wilson/Captain America – is “going to give the audience that old Marvel feeling that they always had.”
While chatting with Mackie today about the upcoming second season of Peacock’s Twisted Metal, I asked the actor when he starts filming Doomsday. “Yeah, man, we’re kicking on down the road, so everybody’s getting excited and we’re getting the band back together,” said Mackie.
“We’re supposed to go out this week and we’ll be out there doing it. Everybody’s excited. I feel with the script and having the Russo brothers back, it’s going to be great.” Mackie added, “I’m really excited for what this project is going to be. It’s going to give the audience that old Marvel feeling that they always had.”
“That old Marvel feeling” is probably exactly what fans are hoping for from Avengers: Doomsday given the lukewarm reactions from both critics and audiences to the MCU’s Phase Five, including Mackie’s own recent outing, Captain America: Brave New World, which underperformed at the box office.
Mackie is the latest Doomsday cast member to go on the record about the upcoming Marvel epic following Ant-Man’s Paul Rudd and Human Torch’s Joseph Quinn.
In addition to Mackie, Rudd and Quinn, the Avengers: Doomsday cast includes Robert Downey Jr. (Doctor Doom), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Vanessa Kirby (Invisible Woman), Pedro Pascal (Mister Fantastic), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Thing), Letitia Wright (Shuri / Black Panther), Winston Duke (M’Baku), Tenoch Huerta Mejía (Namor), Simu Liu (Shang-Chi), Danny Ramirez (Joaquin Torres / Falcon), Sebastian Stan (Winter Solder), Wyatt Russell (John Walker / U.S. Agent), Florence Pugh (Yelena Belova), Lewis Pullman (Robert Reynolds / Sentry), David Harbour (Red Guardian), Hannah John-Kamen (Ghost), Kelsey Grammer (Beast), Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), and James Marsden (Cyclops).
And while that’s certainly an epic lineup of talent, it’s notable which Avengers and X-Men characters are not in Doomsday (well, at least so far) while also begging the question how many minutes of screen time can each Avenger actually get.
For more on Avengers: Doomsday, check out the fan theories produced by a recent set photo leak and the 75 Marvel comics that Doomsday will pull from.
