Patrick Stewart, 84, who played Professor X in Fox’s early 2000s X-Men films, and 85-year-old Ian McKellen, who played his nemesis Magneto, are also in the Doomsday cast as Disney and Marvel seek to take advantage of the acquisition of Fox’s movie library. Kelsey Grammer, who played Hank “Beast” McCoy, was also announced.
Simu Liu, who played the title character in 2021’s Shang Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings, is also in the newly announced cast, as is Tenoch Huerta Meija, who played the aquatic antagonist Namor in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Letitia Wright, who plays Shuri in the Black Panther films, will also be back among the Avengers, as will her Black Panther castmate Winston Duke.
