Chris Evans has denied rumours that he’ll return to play Captain America in Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday, attributable to be out in 2026.
Experiences emerged of Evans probably making a return to Marvel, and it appeared that Evans had confirmed he’s returning to the Marvel franchise.
Requested whether or not he may very well be tempted to return to the Captain America/Steve Rogers character, Evans beforehand stated in 2023: “I’ll by no means say by no means, simply because it was such an exquisite expertise. However I’m additionally very treasured with it. It’s one thing that I’m very happy with.
“And like I stated, generally I can’t consider it even occurred. And I wouldn’t need the black eye if it felt like a money seize or if it didn’t reside as much as expectations or if it simply felt prefer it wasn’t related to that unique factor. So, no time quickly.”
Nevertheless, the actor is not going to be making a return for Avengers: Doomsday. In Esquire‘s profile of the new Captain America, Anthony Mackie, the actor stated he reached out to Evans after rumours first broke out.
He stated: “I talked to Chris a couple of weeks in the past and it wasn’t on the desk then. At the least, he didn’t inform me it was on the desk, as a result of I requested him. I used to be like, ‘You realize, they stated they’re bringing everybody again for the film. Are you coming again?’ ”
Evans then stated he’s “fortunately retired” from the function, and stated the identical in an announcement to Esquire once they requested him to substantiate.
Forward of his movie debut because the character in Captain America: Courageous New World, Mackie revealed that his predecessor Evans was the one to inform him he was taking over the mantle – exhibiting him an early model of the script for Avengers: Endgame.
Within the 2019 Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, Evans’ character Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, arrives having grown outdated after going again in time to reside with Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell). Mackie’s character, Sam Wilson, also referred to as Falcon, is handed Rogers’ well-known defend.
Chatting with Fandango forward of the movie’s launch on February 14, he stated: “It was a bunch of us at (Chris Evans’) home—he had this loopy home—sitting there watching a recreation, taking pictures the shit. He goes, ‘Have you ever learn the brand new script?’ I stated, ‘Nah’.”
He recalled: “He will get the brand new script. He goes to love the final 10 pages, and he goes, ‘learn it!’ So I’m pondering they killed me off… I get to the half and it’s like, you realize, I’m studying the scene between us, and it goes, ‘He fingers him the defend.’ I’m like, ‘so why did you give me the defend?’ He’s like, ‘since you’re fucking Captain America’.”
