James Marsden’s Having Enjoyable as Cyclops ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

After The Marvels and Deadpool & Wolverine laid the groundwork for extra Fox X-Males to return, Avengers: Doomsday goes all in by bringing again a number of non-Wolverine (or Professor X) characters from the original films. Amongst them is James Marsden, who performed Cyclops in that preliminary trilogy and didn’t actually get to do a lot in them.

Talking to Vanity Fair, the actor recalled “20 years of listening to folks say, ‘When are you coming again? When are you coming again? Are you coming again?’ However I’m lifeless, or possibly not.” Regardless of “getting slightly lengthy within the tooth to placed on the superhero costume,” he referred to as getting it “an actual blast” to place the shades on once more for Doomsday.  Marsden was one of many first X-actors to bow out of the franchise, having been killed off early into X-Males: The Final Stand after he booked a job in Superman Returns. The final time he confirmed up because the at all times proper mutant was a brief cameo on the finish of Days of Future Previous in a brand new timeline, which appeared on the time to shut the e-book on “the firrst actual occasion challenge I used to be ever part of, and a really beloved character.”

“To step again into that position was fairly particular,” he continued, “and it’s been a pleasant little homecoming to a job that actually put me on the map.” Different returning X-actors for Doomsday embody Alan Cumming as Nightcralwer, Rebecca Romijn as Mystique, and Ian McKellen as Magneto. Two present, notable absences are Famke Janssen’s Jean Gray and Halle Berry’s Storm.

With how a lot enjoyable X-Males ’97 had rehabilitating Cyclops into a really cool (and really flawed) hero, hopefully Marsden will get to point out out when Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on December 18, 2026.

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