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Captain America star Chris Evans is reportedly set to return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Avengers: Doomsday.
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Evans recently appeared as Johnny Storm, aka The Human Torch, from Fox’s Fantastic Four films in this past summer’s Deadpool and Wolverine.
But the actor shut down that speculation when he tweeted, “News to me,” adding a shrugging emoji.
Evans made his debut as the Golden Age comic book character in 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger, and went on to play the role in a number of Marvel films, including four Avengers entries.
After his character time travelled into the past and opted to live his life with Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) following the events of 2019’s Endgame, Evans has repeatedly said he would be reluctant to rejoin the MCU. “I would never say never, but I’m very protective of it. It’s a very precious role to me, so it would have to be just right,” he said last year on The View.
But screenwriting duo Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, who penned the two-part Avengers finale as well as The First Avenger, The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War and Thor: The Dark World, told Postmedia in a 2019 interview that there were still more stories Marvel could tell involving Evans’ Steve Rogers character.
Meanwhile, when Postmedia caught up with Evans on the set of Avengers: Infinity War just before Christmas in 2017, the actor said he was going through a “cocktail of emotions” as he contemplated his time coming to an end in the MCU.
“It went by in the blink of an eye, but it was also a lifetime. It’s nice because it has evolved the way you hope. It’s not like we peaked with our friendship back on (Avengers: Age of) Ultron. The camaraderie we have is at an all time high… It feels like family, it really does,” he said.
“It’s nerve wracking,” Evans said of the possibility that he was finished. “But Marvel really knows what they are doing … It’s all one big arc. Everything’s moving towards the same endgame.”
Avengers: Doomsday is slated for release on May 1, 2026.