AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Star Alan Cumming Reveals That Nightcrawler Will Fight [SPOILER] In The Movie

The Avengers: Doomsday solid reveal noticed Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), James Marsden (Cyclops), Kelsey Grammer (Beast), and Deadpool & Wolverine‘s Channing Tatum (Gambit) all board the film. 

Characters like Jean Gray (Famke Janssen), Storm (Halle Berry), and Rogue (Anna Paquin) are all notable by their absence, as is Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. We anticipate seeing a much bigger X-Males crew than the one above, maybe with a couple of new Multiversal Variants added to the combo for good measure. 

Cumming’s Nightcrawler stays one of the vital beloved characters from the X-Males franchise, regardless of solely showing in 2003’s X2: X-Males United.

The teleporter’s assault on the White Home is taken into account iconic, so the actor reprising the function in Avengers: Doomsday is extremely thrilling (we’re certain the Russo Brothers will no less than try and prime that basic sequence). 

In a brand new interview, Cumming seemingly spilled the beans on an enormous second for Nightcrawler by revealing that he’ll sq. off with Improbable 4 chief Mister Improbable, performed by Pedro Pascal. 

“Proper now, I am doing it once more. I am enjoying Nightcrawler once more and was studying stunts yesterday for some combat scene,” he says within the video under. “I am kind of studying these fights and I am like, ‘What, who am I combating with?’ [They’re like,] ‘You are hitting Pedro Pascal in opposition to the top.’ I can not fairly consider [that].”

Assuming the actor hasn’t made a mistake, this implies we’ll see the Improbable 4 battle the X-Males. Chances are high it is going to be a case of mistaken id and solely a quick conflict earlier than the groups realise they’re on the identical facet. Nonetheless, if Avengers: Doomsday is following the comics, it could possibly be that an Incursion between their respective worlds is going down. 

Many followers already count on Avengers: Doomsday to double up as an Avengers vs. X-Males film, and Cumming’s feedback counsel Marvel’s First Household will facet with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. 

“Is not it nuts? I am excited and amazed,” Cumming stated of his Nightcrawler return final month. “It has been 23 years since I used to be a superhero. I’ve had some make-up exams already for the function, however what’s nice about it was that earlier than it was about 4 and a half hours to use it, however now it is solely 90 minutes.”

“Earlier than, all the tattoos had been finished by hand. They hadn’t selected them earlier than we began filming. Now, they only stick onto my face. It is a sport changer,” he continued. “I am going again to being a 60-year-old superhero, and everybody appears actually pretty.”

You may hear extra from Cumming within the participant under.