RUMOR: Samuel L. Jackson Will Return As Former S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury In AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY

RUMOR: Samuel L. Jackson Will Return As Former S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury In AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY

As work on Avengers: Doomsday continues, a new rumour claims that Samuel L. Jackson will reprise his role as former S.H.I.E.L.D. Director and current S.A.B.E.R. boss Nick Fury in the upcoming ensemble...

By JoshWilding - Jul 16, 2025 04:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Avengers: Doomsday

The cast of Avengers: Domsday is mighty impressive, but also missing some big names. Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, and Hugh Jackman were among those absent from March's casting announcement, as was Samuel L. Jackson. 

The legendary actor first played Nick Fury in 2008's Iron Man, and despite taking centre stage in Secret Invasion and The Marvels, the former S.H.I.E.L.D. Director has been largely absent from the Avengers franchise since Age of Ultron

Today, scooper Alex Perez brings word that Jackson is set to return as Fury in Avengers: Doomsday. Hopefully, he'll be front and centre in helping Earth's Mightiest Heroes combat the threat Doctor Doom poses to the Multiverse. 

When we last saw Fury, he was still orbiting Earth in S.A.B.E.R.'s base. We'd bet on him remaining allied with Captain Marvel, especially if they're still looking for the missing Monica Rambeau. 

Hopefully, this means we're one step closer to seeing Fury share the screen with the X-Men, a team-up we couldn't have imagined even a decade ago.

"I knew I had a nine-picture deal," Jackson previously said of joining the MCU. "[Marvel Studios president] Kevin [Feige] said that: 'We’re going to offer you a nine-picture deal.' How long do you have to stay alive to make nine movies? It’s not the quickest process in the world."

"I didn’t know they were going to make nine movies in like two and a half years," he admitted. "That’s kind of crazy! Oh shit, I’m using up my contracts. It worked out."

Later saying he still enjoys pulling off Fury's "badass shit," Jackson reiterated his interest in taking the former S.H.I.E.L.D. Director to Black Panther's home nation of Wakanda. 

"All the Black people in the Marvel Universe were trying to figure out, 'Why can't we go to Wakanda?' Me, Don, Anthony Mackie... but they made it. They got to go fight. I still didn't get there," he noted. "I thought that about 'Civil War' when the kids were fighting. The kids are fighting and I'm not gonna make them go to their rooms? How does that make sense?"

The MCU's Captain America, Anthony Mackie, has also expressed his interest in seeing Fury reunite with The Avengers in Doomsday.

"If you know anything about Sam, you can't tell Sam where he's going to be and what he's going to be doing," the actor teased during Captain America: Brave New World's press tour. "Sam is going to tell you where he's going to be and what he's going to be doing. So, we'll see; you never know."

Avengers: Doomsday stars Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Mackie, Winston Duke, Tom Hiddleston, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, and Robert Downey Jr. Wyatt Russell, Simu Liu, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Florence Pugh, Danny Ramirez, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, and Lewis Pullman all make the Avengers franchise debuts in the movie. 

The Fantastic Four: First Steps leads Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn join them, as do X-Men franchise stars Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden, and Deadpool & Wolverine star Channing Tatum.

The Russo Brothers direct the movie from a script by Stephen McFeely, with whom they previously collaborated on the Captain America and Avengers franchises.

Avengers: Doomsday is set to be released on December 18, 2026, with Avengers: Secret Wars scheduled to arrive on December 17, 2027.

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SteviesRightFoo
SteviesRightFoo - 7/16/2025, 5:06 AM
Why? He's one of the many characters they've utterly destroyed and belittled
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 7/16/2025, 5:15 AM
@SteviesRightFoo - Too big of a character to pretend he no longer exists, if anyone can redeem him it would be the Russos
SteviesRightFoo
SteviesRightFoo - 7/16/2025, 5:29 AM
@Urubrodi - i haven't trusted the russos on anything post infinity war
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 7/16/2025, 6:31 AM
@SteviesRightFoo - You don't like Endgame?! If you're talking about their non-Marvel projects I personally won't take that much into consideration, their Marvel resume (Winter Soldier, Civil War, Infinity War, Endgame) speaks for itself.
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 7/16/2025, 6:00 AM
He needs a proper send-off. They don't need to kill him, but they should make him look like the guy who's capable of recruiting the Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
DannyBrandy20
DannyBrandy20 - 7/16/2025, 6:49 AM
Kill him off already

Captain Marvel destroyed Nick Fury character and Secret Invasion buried him
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 7/16/2025, 7:02 AM
@DannyBrandy20 - soooo, kill him off because other people made his character suck? I'd rather kill off phase 4 & 5 for the same reasoning.

Give Fury the authoritative prowess he once had. Have him recruit the Illuminati.
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 7/16/2025, 7:43 AM
@KennKathleen - Yes, kill him off. Actually, never want to see Sam Jackson/Nick Fury again, and I love Sam Jackson and of course Nick Fury and what Sam did for the character pre-2020. But they took his balls off in Phase 4/5. His masculinity was toxic to the new "creatives" at Marvel Studios, i suppose.

@DannyBrandy20
Martianhunter
Martianhunter - 7/16/2025, 8:10 AM
@DannyBrandy20 - Don't thik MCU will kill him and even if they did, he would be back in a TV series or something.

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Simonsonrules
Simonsonrules - 7/16/2025, 8:37 AM
@KennKathleen - No, we must have the same hamburger, over and over and over again. Anything remotely different we burn down and pretend never happened.
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 7/16/2025, 12:04 PM
@GeneralZod - All the more reason to retain/restore.

If Trevor Slattery lasts longer than Samuel Fury -


...all is truly lost.
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 7/16/2025, 12:12 PM
@Simonsonrules - 🤔 I really can't tell if this is sarcasm.

I don't equate different with good.

I will accept a good story that contains things I don't like.

Let's burn down things I don't like, like things that are not good.

TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 7/16/2025, 6:53 AM
I mean makes sense…

If Carol is still looking for a way to get Monica back then I could see Fury trying to help her since he was affected by her being “gone” aswell as also helping the other heroes in their fight against Doom via S.A.B.E.R.

Anyway , I still enjoy SLJ’s Nick Fury so if true then I would be down to see him again!!.

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KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 7/16/2025, 6:58 AM
OT: Milo Callaghan as Scott Summers?

🤔...😳. 😬! 🎯
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 7/16/2025, 7:13 AM
I mean ofc, everybody should be in it if this is the last hurrah of the current version of the MCU.

Gotta wonder if Marvel can beat DC by rebooting the character with a WWII-set Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos film before DC Studios get their Sgt Rock and Easy Company movie out.

On your marks, get set... go!
dragon316
dragon316 - 7/16/2025, 7:36 AM
@ObserverIO - over Florida care - ofc ?
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 7/16/2025, 7:47 AM
@dragon316 - lol, no... ofc = of course

Although the age Samuel L Jackson's getting to, Over Florida Care is probably more fitting.
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 7/16/2025, 7:53 AM
@ObserverIO - I would love to see the old school Sgt Fury and the Howlers, but that's too much masculinity for post-Endgame Marvel Studios.
MCardCollection
MCardCollection - 7/16/2025, 11:06 AM
@ObserverIO -
You black or just born an idiot?
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 7/16/2025, 3:46 PM
@MCardCollection - I don't understand... so definitely the second one.
Matchesz
Matchesz - 7/16/2025, 7:48 AM
I feel like that Ike Perlmutter guy would have said having a kitty scratch Fury’s eye out is a dumb idea, almost like Feige intentionally surrounded himself with yes men the decline in quality aligns with his firing
MCardCollection
MCardCollection - 7/16/2025, 11:04 AM
Shit just got real motherfvcker
TyrantBossMedia
TyrantBossMedia - 7/16/2025, 11:14 AM
They have already destroyed Nick Fury in more ways than we could have imagined.

- His eye was hurt by a space cat which takes away some of the mystery behind "the last time I trusted somebody, I lost an eye."
And it lost him a lot of his mystique.

- Then they neutered him in the Secret Invasion show and had him married to a damn Skrull.

Nick Fury is pointless now as they have moved on from him in pretty much every other story.

Marvel had the world in the palm of their hands, but went too big with Endgame, then went too Woke with Phase 4 and 5 of the MSheU.

Now they are introducing a Fantastic 4 that will be a girl boss finale with Sue Storm and Silver Surfette beating Galactus while the men are sidelined, like they did in What If?...when Black Widow and Captain Carter were the ones to beat Ultron/Vision while far more powerful male characters stood by and watched.

Like they did in MoM when the smartest man in the world (Reed Richards) was killed with ease and said something so stupid it gave away Black Bolts threat and that super powerful Male hero was destroyed, then Professor Xavier, who could have just frozen time with his mind was killed with ease by Scarlet Witch, only to leave behind Captain Carter and Captain Marvel as the last remaining girl bosses to fight Scarlet Witch.

Now there is NO build up to Doomsday. There are a list of C and D list characters about whom we don't care.
And out of desperation they bring back RDJ.

Disney/Marvel has destroyed itself
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 7/16/2025, 12:11 PM
@TyrantBossMedia - Plus, you dont have a Marvel movie before Doomsday which is over a yeah and a half from FF. You are asking normies to remember way too much.

Secret Invasion ruined Rhodey too and Fury still has that Skrull wife lurking about. They have screwed this entire thing up from top to bottom.
TyrantBossMedia
TyrantBossMedia - 7/16/2025, 12:19 PM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - Excellent point. There are two phases of movies and by the time Doomsday rolls around 8 years of movies and shows the vast majority of which were bombs.

Hell, even the loyal fan base is going to have a hard time remembering what has been going on, if we even want to. The storylines and characters were not interesting in the least bit.

The only movie had any real impact was Spider-Man: No Way Home, but that didn't lead to anything except for the symbiote being left behind on the bar at the end, and that is a Sony movie so it's no really going to come into play in the MCU.

You can't do much with Multiverse of Madness because apparently the tamed the multiverse in season 2 of Loki.

And from the leaks that I have seen the TVA is going to be featured at some point in Doomsday.

Feige just didn't formulate a plan and it has damaged the brand.


Thanks for pointing out Rhodey. I was thinking about him as I was listing how they screwed up Fury. How do you just skim over that mess?
JacobsLadder
JacobsLadder - 7/16/2025, 12:39 PM
@TyrantBossMedia - total garbage. there is no redeeming his character. His skrull lover should've just ate him like V
JacobsLadder
JacobsLadder - 7/16/2025, 12:39 PM
We don't need anymore of this shit ass character. Fury was cool 10 years ago. move on. His character is trash.
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 7/16/2025, 6:47 PM
Eh? If you do something awesome with him sure but...he isn't necessary.

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