Whereas it will not hit 2025 film schedule, the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday is about to be the subsequent main team-up within the Marvel Cinematic Universe films, and pleasure across the film’s sprawling solid continues to construct. From returning Avengers to long-awaited X-Males debuts, the upcoming Marvel film is shaping as much as be an MCU milestone. Now, Anthony Mackie is opening up concerning the movie, particularly which mutants he’s most excited to share the display screen with and, actually, he’s bought nice style.
Mackie revealed the X-Males characters he’s dying to group up with whereas talking with Display Rant. Whether or not it’s due to childhood nostalgia or the sheer enjoyable of a possible buddy mission, his picks really feel completely according to what followers would like to see. The 8 Mile first name-dropped a personality who’s served as a frontrunner of the mutant group sooner or later or one other:
Look, I’m a giant Cyclops fan. That’s my favourite X-Males. I’ve a Cyclops motion determine on my keychain that I’ve had since highschool. After I was in highschool, the X-Males cartoon was actually large, and this was earlier than the films. I’ve at all times been an enormous Cyclops fan, and I’m actually, actually excited – hopefully, knock on wooden – for them to be part of it and are available into it.
Cyclops might not at all times get the identical fanfare as Wolverine or Deadpool however, for individuals who grew up with X-Males: The Animated Collection, he was the clear-eyed chief and emotional anchor of the group. Sam Wilson, a fellow chief within the MCU, teaming up with Scott Summers might make for a powerful, strategic dynamic, particularly in a high-stakes film like Doomsday.
Nonetheless, Anthony Mackie didn’t cease at Cyclops. When requested about who he’d wish to spend precise time with within the MCU, he gave a solution that leans all the best way into enjoyable:
[I’m excited] to hang around with Xavier and Beast and all these guys. However my favourite is Nightcrawler. If I can hang around with one character? Me and Nightcrawler within the French Quarter throughout Mardi Gras for 2 weeks, that’s what I do.
Let’s be sincere, if that had been a brief streaming with a Disney+ subscription, I’d stream it in a heartbeat. Nightcrawler’s teleportation abilities mixed with Mackie’s charisma and the wild setting of New Orleans throughout Mardi Gras? That is immediate comedy gold with loads of coronary heart.
The excellent news for the Adjustment Bureau actor (and followers) is that each Cyclops and Nightcrawler are confirmed to seem in Avengers: Doomsday, with James Marsden and Alan Cumming, respectively, reprising their roles. With the Russo brothers again within the administrators’ chairs and an all-star lineup together with Paul Rudd, Florence Pugh, Pedro Pascal, Tom Hiddleston, and Robert Downey Jr., the film already looks like a full-circle second for each the Avengers and the X-Males.
If Anthony Mackie will get his want, we might even see some memorable mutant moments involving the brand new Cap. If not, somebody at Marvel ought to nonetheless greenlight Captain America & Nightcrawler: Mardi Gras Mayhem. You realize you’d watch it.
You may catch Avengers: Doomsday when it releases in theaters on Could 1, 2026.