X-MEN Franchise Star Is The Latest To Confirm They've Wrapped Filming AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY

X-MEN Franchise Star Is The Latest To Confirm They've Wrapped Filming AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY

As production on Avengers: Doomsday continues, another returning X-Men actor has now confirmed that they have finished shooting their scenes in the upcoming Marvel Studios movie. Read on for details...

By JoshWilding - Sep 08, 2025 01:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Avengers: Doomsday

Alan Cumming stole the show as Nightcrawler in X2: X-Men United. The opening sequence saw him teleport through the White House, and it's still ranked among the best scenes ever featured in a superhero movie. 

Despite a largely negative experience working with filmmaker Bryan Singer, Cumming will return as Kurt Wagner in Avengers: Doomsday. The actor has said a lot about his experience on set—perhaps a little too much, after spoiling a clash with Pedro Pascal's Mister Fantastic—and now confirms that he's wrapped on the blockbuster. 

"Well, I’ve already done it. I finished it," Cumming told press after winning a Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program for The Traitors

"I did a lot of stunt work and training. That was amazing," he said of his preparation for this long-awaited return. "The stunt people couldn’t believe that I could get up, let alone jump around and do this boxing and training."

Unsurprisingly, Cumming also revealed that he decided against revisiting the X-Men sequel as preparation. "I think that was what really helped, because this is super intense, and is loads of stuff at once," he teased.

We don't know how significant a role the X-Men will play in Avengers: Doomsday, but Earth 10005 is expected to factor heavily into this story as Doctor Doom wages war across the Multiverse. That looks set to lead to a clash between Earth 616's Avengers and the X-Men, making many a dream come true for comic book fans. 

The Avengers sharing the screen with the X-Men was little more than a fantasy even a few years ago, but the fact that they'll meet the 20th Century Fox versions of these characters is pretty mind-blowing. 

"I did the entire film in isolation. Lots of green screen, face replacement," Cumming recently shared. "They even gave characters fake names. I don’t know who I was acting with half the time."

Walking back on his Mister Fantastic remarks, he added, "I broke the internet by mentioning something once, but honestly, I might have got it wrong."

You can hear more from Cumming on Avengers: Doomsday in the player below. 

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 their 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.

Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, and Ryan Reynolds are also set to appear, according to recent reports from the trades. 

The Russo Brothers direct the movie from a screenplay by Stephen McFeely, with whom they previously collaborated on the Avengers and Captain America franchises. Loki and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness's Michael Waldron is also working on the script.

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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GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 9/8/2025, 1:17 PM
When do the reshoots start?
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 9/8/2025, 1:20 PM
He cumming
WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 9/8/2025, 1:25 PM
Wrapping up filming without a finished script. Get ready for a huge mess

Reboot the MCU and DCU
Comicmoviejunki
Comicmoviejunki - 9/8/2025, 1:45 PM
@WalletsClosed - Unfinished script confirmed? Didn't think so. Shut your (0ck sucker!
WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 9/8/2025, 3:12 PM
@Comicmoviejunki - Been confirmed a while ago. Keep up
movieguy18
movieguy18 - 9/8/2025, 3:18 PM
@WalletsClosed - seriously, stop the trolling
Comicmoviejunki
Comicmoviejunki - 9/8/2025, 3:52 PM
@WalletsClosed - what's your source troll?
bobevanz
bobevanz - 9/8/2025, 1:35 PM
Maybe we'll actually get a scene with Magneto and or Mystique this time
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 9/8/2025, 1:35 PM
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Nomis929
Nomis929 - 9/8/2025, 1:43 PM
I dislike those "FoX-Men" movies with a passion...but one of the four things that Singer got right was Alan Cumming being cast as Night Crawler.

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I just hope we see him in a more classic comic book uniform in this movie.
gambgel
gambgel - 9/8/2025, 1:50 PM
Most actors seem to be wrapping up.

Pascal, Marsden, Cumming, Letitia Wright, Hemsworth too apparently....

wondering what actors/characters will be the ones to shoot the last weeks of the whole production. Guess Downey Jr. but who else? 🤔
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 9/8/2025, 1:56 PM
Do we have any of the X-men in this Doomsday movie that’s going to be taking over the franchise moving forward?
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 9/8/2025, 2:15 PM
@WruceBayne - not that we know of as of yet.
spr0cks
spr0cks - 9/8/2025, 5:42 PM
@WruceBayne -

The X-Men franchise is going to be completely rebooted after the events of these movies (and probably/possibly because of them).

So these Avengers movies are sort of like a formal farewell for the Fox X-Men-verse (minus the likes of Deadpool who will continue on in the MCU and won't be rebooted, and possibly Hugh Jackman's Wolverine(???).

Think of it in the vein of 'Spider-Man : No way Home', which was like both a 'Welcome to the MCU' for the Tobey and Andrew Garfield Spider-mans as well as a "Formal Farewell" to both at the same time.

(unless Sony has something else to say about that.)
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 9/8/2025, 2:22 PM
Cool!!.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we hear about the film itself wrapping principal photography in the next month or 2 since 4-6 months is a pretty standard blockbuster filming schedule and they started in April.

Anyway , I enjoyed Cummings version of Nightcrawler in X2 so am looking forward to him in this!!.
HulkisHoly
HulkisHoly - 9/8/2025, 2:38 PM
It’s so sad to see the husk of the MCU trying to still trot along; a shell of its former self, with zero story, zero character arcs, and only nostalgia bait to lure butts into seats.

I speak for myself only, but nothing we’ve seen post EG has made me care about a single character. I don’t care what happens to Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye, Strange, and FAR LESS about any of the bajillion new characters they’ve added.

I guess the only characters I have any attachment to is maybe Spiderman and that might be it.

But that’s probably not enough to get me to watch this in theaters, unless my friends I trust tell me it’s incredible.
XelCorp
XelCorp - 9/8/2025, 4:21 PM
@HulkisHoly - I’d think its pretty safe to say that in order for this movie to truly work, Doom needs to be top mooch villain and centred as the main character (similar to Thanos) along with a limited supporting cast that consists of heroes the general audience still somewhat gives a shit about or has some type of investment in- Spider-Man, Thor, Dr Strange, Wolverine, Star-Lord, Deadpool, scarlet witch, Hawkeye, Maybe the Hulk if they stop treating him like a joke and def the rebooted Black Panther. Thunderbolts, Fantastic Four , Antman and The wasp will be the mid tier support. Acting as background pieces that help *pivot* the plot. Everyone else will literally be used for glorified cameos and nostalgic factor. I can’t see it being anything else other than this personally… but unfortunately knowing Disney they just might shoe horn Captain Marvel over a lot of whom I listed and I hope to god Monica Rambeau and Ms Marvel do not show up.
spr0cks
spr0cks - 9/8/2025, 5:43 PM
@HulkisHoly - Cool story, bro.
GirshwinDavies
GirshwinDavies - 9/8/2025, 2:55 PM
Cumming
AnthonyVonGeek
AnthonyVonGeek - 9/8/2025, 4:01 PM
I’m excited to go see what they do with Nightcrawler.

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