Avengers: Doomsday Star James Marsden Discusses The Status of His X-Men Superhero Cyclops: 'I'm Dead. Well, Maybe Not'

Sonic the Hedgehog prima James Marsden has addressed the instrumentality of his classical X-Men leader successful the upcoming Marvel blockbuster Avengers: Doomsday, contempt the character's erstwhile on-screen demise.

Marsden volition erstwhile again suit up arsenic Cyclops, the goggled X-Man, successful adjacent year's Doomsday — marking his archetypal quality arsenic the quality successful good implicit a decade.

But however volition Marsden — and a enactment of his different chap Fox Universe X-Men — beryllium introduced into the MCU? And didn't helium dice that 1 time, backmost successful X-Men: The Last Stand? Speaking to Vanity Fair, the histrion has present addressed his superhero instrumentality for the archetypal time, and dropped a fewer clues.

"I'm getting a small agelong successful the bony to enactment connected the superhero costume," Marsden said, erstwhile asked however it felt to beryllium back. "I was excited due to the fact that you're a portion of thing gigantic, and I've spent 20 years listening to radical say,'when are you coming back? When are you coming back? Are you coming back?'"

"I'm dead," Marsden continued. "Well, possibly not."

Here, Marsden seems to beryllium referring to the information his quality did so dice successful 2006's The Last Stand — Marsden's past large quality successful the relation — lone to beryllium resurrected successful 2014's Days of Future Past, the enjoyable time-travelling sequel wherever Hugh Jackman's Wolverine ends up rewriting history, handily erasing a batch of the less-popular moments of the erstwhile X-Men films.

The extremity of that movie features a little cameo from Marsden, alongside different archetypal X-Men specified arsenic Famke Janssen's Jean Grey (another Doomsday returnee) and Kelsey Grammer's Beast (who already returned successful The Marvels) live and good backmost successful their archetypal timeline.

James Marsden. Image credit: Pierre Suu/WireImage.

It's presumably this timeline, oregon universe, which we saw Monica Rambeau extremity up in, being examined by Beast successful The Marvel's post-credits scene. And it seems apt that the hunt for Monica — oregon astatine slightest the multiversal, incursion-sparking shenanigans she was a portion of — whitethorn beryllium the cardinal to wherefore the MCU's Avengers extremity up successful the X-Men beingness en masse.

Early filming leaks from the Avengers: Doomsday acceptable appeared to diagnostic a conflict scarred X-Mansion, portion different photograph appeared to amusement Marsden interacting with a celebrated MCU look down the scenes. And past there's actor/Traitors US big Alan Cumming, who has besides spoiled the information that astatine 1 constituent his quality Nightcrawler from X2: X-Men United volition combat Pedro Pascal’s Mister Fantastic.

Officially, each we cognize is that Marsden and Janssen are among a smattering of classical X-Men actors confirmed to appear, which besides includes Patrick Stewart arsenic Charles Xavier, Ian McKellan arsenic Magneto and Rebecca Romijn arsenic Mystique.

"I'm going to person a pugnacious clip struggling to get into costume if they waited a mates much years," Marsden continued. "So it's been a blast. It truly has. It's been a bully small homecoming to a relation that truly enactment maine connected the map. It was the archetypal existent lawsuit task that I was ever a portion of, and a precise beloved character, this icon from the comics. And truthful to measurement backmost into that relation was beauteous special."

Will Marsden and the remainder of the X-Men negociate to enactment live passim the events of Doomsday? Well, that remains to beryllium seen. What we bash know, however, is that Marvel is already readying a caller X-Men reboot with a new, younger formed — possibly suggesting that fans should bask Marsden's clip backmost live arsenic Cyclops now, portion they inactive can.

Image credit: Pierre Suu/WireImage.

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