Despite the fact the movie hasn’t started filming in earnest, Feige and co had quite a bit of footage on hand to show off. The clip starts off in a 4:3, Super 8 style, with Pascal’s Reed Richards teaching a bunch of young students in a classroom under a banner reading “Fantastic Science with Mr. Fantastic.” He’s losing the children with his lecture about the possibilities of the multiverse until he pivots and asks if they’d rather see a “big explosion.”
From there, we’re treated to a glimpse of Sue (Kirby), Ben (Moss-Bachrach), Johnny (Quinn), and Reed suiting up into space suits, intercut with Sue and Reed talking about how they always have family dinner on Sundays at 8 pm. The footage also shows off a Jetsons-like flying car floating through a retro-futuristic NYC skyline; as the group climbs into a spaceship to rocket into the atmosphere, the teaser cuts to the new logo and title for the film, which releases July 25, 2025.
After the title card, the footage cuts back to the interior of a spacious and swanky apartment, as a the giant purple-helmeted figure of Galactus leans down outside the window and peers inside the building.
The Russos and Robert Downey Jr. Return for Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars
For every “We’re so back,” there must be an equal and opposite “It’s so over.” At the very end of the panel, Feige brought up Joe and Anthony Russo, now officially the directors of Avengers 5 and Avengers: Secret Wars. The two directors quickly pivoted to talk about their plans for Avengers 5and Hall H turned green to announce the film formerly known as The Kang Dynasty would now be Avengers: Doomsday.
As we noted when news broke about Marvel moving off of Jonathan Majors, Doctor Doom was always a better fit for Secret Wars than Kang. In the 2015 Secret Wars comic, written by Jonathan Hickman with art by Esad Ribić, the famed villain is the primary antagonist for the story, culminating a six-year-long story that dates back to Hickman’s run writing Fantastic Four from 2009 to 2012.
Trying to introduce a brand new foe and make them a worthy adversary for the Avengers in the course of two films isn’t impossible—that’s basically what the Russos did for Thanos in Infinity War. Doomsday will likely need to do the same amount of heavy lifting to introduce Doom and prop him up as a satisfying Big Bad, but it will take a Herculean effort to pull it off. When done right, Doom can be the flagship Marvel villain. Hell, in the Secret Wars comic, there’s a moment where Doom removes Thanos’ spinal column like it’s Mortal Kombat.
But you need someone with gravitas, and that may explain the panel’s final reveal. Introduced by the Russo as “the one person who can play Victor Von Doom,” Downey stepped out of the chorus line of masked Dooms and revealed his face to cheers from the Hall H faithful. (The wording of the Russos’ introduction is a clue to the direction Marvel is taking Doom, in the sense that it sounds like RDJ will be playing Doom himself, not an evil variant of Tony Stark, a choice that would have comic-book precedent.)
