Marvel Studios pulled back the curtain further on “Avengers: Doomsday” Friday night at D23, debuting new footage and a poster while confirming that tickets for the film are now on sale nationwide. Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans and Hayley Atwell took the stage in Anaheim to preview the December 18 release, teasing a showdown between Doctor Doom and heroes pulled from three separate cinematic universes.
The new poster puts Downey’s Doctor Doom front and center, depicted before green-tinted stained glass as he studies his own reflection through his iron mask. Onstage, Downey appeared alongside Evans and Atwell, who are returning as Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter.
The pair leaned into their characters’ ambiguous “Avengers: Endgame” ending, with Atwell joking that the crowd loves nothing more than a happy ending before Evans added that Rogers “should’ve known better” than to expect one. Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds also crashed the panel through a video message, jokingly campaigning for roles in the already sprawling cast.
That cast is one of the largest Marvel has assembled, spanning Chris Hemsworth, Pedro Pascal, Paul Rudd, Anthony Mackie, Florence Pugh, Vanessa Kirby, Channing Tatum, Simu Liu, Ian McKellen, Tom Hiddleston, Patrick Stewart, Letitia Wright, Sebastian Stan and more than a dozen additional actors drawn from across the studio’s franchises. The film promises to converge storylines from different corners of Marvel’s output into what the studio describes as an existential threat unlike any the characters have previously confronted.
Ticket sales, which had initially been limited to Infinity Vision-certified premium large format theaters, have now expanded to standard cinemas everywhere, available through Fandango and other outlets. The push toward wide ticket availability signals Marvel’s confidence in the film as a major theatrical event heading into the holiday season, positioning “Doomsday” alongside other December releases competing for audience attention.
The footage shown at D23 has not been posted publicly, leaving fans reliant on eyewitness accounts from those in Anaheim until Marvel decides to release it more broadly.
