X-MEN Writer Chris Claremont Has Seemingly Dropped Some HUGE Spoilers For AVENGERS: SECRET WARS

Famed X-Men writer Chris Claremont recently appeared at a comic convention and appeared to drop a series of major story spoilers for the upcoming Avengers: Secret Wars movie. Read on for further details...

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By JoshWilding - Apr 29, 2025 10:04 AM EST

Filed Under: Avengers: Secret Wars

Comic book writer Chris Claremont is a bona fide legend and, if you've ever read a truly great X-Men comic, chances are he wrote it. Claremont has consulted on various Marvel movies, but can we count Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars among them?

The writer appeared at the Huntsville Pop Culture Expo over the weekend and started talking about the latter movie. Claremont was rambling a little, but appeared to drop several big details about Secret Wars in the process.

For starters, he said Robert Downey Jr. will play multiple characters in the movie, including Iron Man. He also revealed that Chris Evans will be back as Captain America, a young Steve Rogers, and HYDRA Cap, later adding that Elizabeth Olsen will return as a "good' Scarlet Witch.

He also claimed that Psylocke is returning and suggested Wolverine will "kill somebody important."

Claremont might have gotten rumours mixed up with fact, and there's every chance he's misinformed. Alternatively, he's been given insights into what's to come in Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars, and has shared details he didn't anticipate going any further than the room he was in.

While Olsen's return and HYDRA Cap have both been rumoured at one time or another, Downey playing more than just Doom and plans for Wolverine and Psylocke are new to us. We're not exactly shocked to learn that Downey might suit up as Iron Man again, especially with the Multiverse in the mix.

Marvel Television boss Brad Winderbaum was recently asked about rumblings that the MCU will be rebooted after Secret Wars and explained, "You can't really fully reboot anything. It's a very difficult thing to do to a living, breathing fictional universe, to just start from scratch, because of all the fan investment and love for the stories that have come so far."

Here's the confirmed Avengers: Doomsday cast list as things currently stand:

Chris Hemsworth - Thor
Vanessa Kirby - Invisible Woman
Anthony Mackie - Captain America
Sebastian Stan - Bucky
Letitia Wright - Black Panther
Paul Rudd - Ant-Man
Wyatt Russell - U.S. Agent
Tenoch Huerta Mejia - Namor
Ebon Moss-Bachrach - The Thing
Simu Liu - Shang-Chi
Florence Pugh - Yelena Belova
Kelsey Grammer - Beast
Lewis Pullman - The Sentry
Danny Ramirez - The Falcon
Joseph Quinn - Human Torch
David Harbour - Red Guardian
Winston Duke - M'Baku
Hannah John-Kamen - Ghost
Tom Hiddleston - Loki
Patrick Stewart - Professor X
Ian McKellen - Magneto
Alan Cumming - Nightcrawler
Rebecca Romijn - Mystique
James Marsden - Cyclops
Channing Tatum - Gambit
Pedro Pascal - Mister Fantastic
Robert Downey Jr. - Doctor Doom

Avengers: Doomsday is set to be released in May 2026, with Avengers: Secret Wars scheduled to arrive in May 2027. You can hear Claremont's comments starting from the 9:10 mark.

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25 Comments

harryba11zack - 4/29/2025, 10:22 AM

not in the title no news here

Gabimaru - 4/29/2025, 10:23 AM

This is a cluster phuck of epic proportions and i am here for it

SonOfAGif - 4/29/2025, 10:24 AM

Since we are making rumors up just for the sake of an article. Here is one. "Chris Hemsworth will have Mjolnir and Stormbreaker in the movie. White Vision will lead the Young Avengers and discover that Wiccan is Wanda's son"

Wahhvacado - 4/29/2025, 10:30 AM

They aren't even done writing Doomsday.

CorndogBurglar - 4/29/2025, 11:30 AM

@Wahhvacado - Didn't they already start filming it?

SATW42 - 4/29/2025, 11:33 AM

@Wahhvacado - almost no movie is "done" when filming starts. You find this as you go, you figure things out etc. Film scripts are living documents. This is not exclusive to marvel movies.

Wahhvacado - 4/29/2025, 11:36 AM

@SATW42 - Exactly which makes it more unlikely for things to have been determined for Secret Wars. These more sound like drawing board ideas but they can't solidify it until they finish many pieces of Doomsday first

Patient2670 - 4/29/2025, 12:02 PM

@Wahhvacado - I'm sure they're working on both, simultaneously. From what I understand, they're meant to be 2 parts of the same story, like Infinity war and Endgame. There must be, at the very least an overall outline if not early drafts of both. Things will certainly change or evolve over the production process, but the major story beats have more than likely been mapped out.

ObserverIO - 4/29/2025, 10:35 AM

'Good' Scarlet Witch is a copout.

Hydra Cap makes sense, but I was kinda hoping he might play Beyonder since The Beyonder replicated Steve Rogers for his human form. Would make more sense for this specific storyline (and they already referenced the Hydra Cap thing in Endgame).

CorndogBurglar - 4/29/2025, 11:31 AM

@ObserverIO - I dont know that "good" Scarlet Witch is a cop out. In the comics she's known for bouncing back and forth between good and bad depending on her mental state.

tRuckRogers46A - 4/29/2025, 11:46 AM

@ObserverIO - I was hoping they'd get Henry Cavill for the og Beyonder AND also have Evans for the SW2 style Beyonder.

MarvelousMarty - 4/29/2025, 10:35 AM

Whatever.

TheVisionary25 - 4/29/2025, 10:51 AM

Why would he be privy to any information about the Avengers films?.

It honestly seems like he might just be regurgitating the rumor mill aswell as adding his own bits of speculation aswell.

Anyway we’ll see but I do hope we see Hydra Cap since I think he could be an interesting foil for Sam especially.

Skestra - 4/29/2025, 10:56 AM

If it came out of Huntsville then it HAS to be true!

Pictilli - 4/29/2025, 11:01 AM

Hope RDJ as Iron Man and Chris Evans as Cap is true, but doubt it

BillyBatson1000 - 4/29/2025, 11:03 AM

'Good Scarlet Witch' ...

Or may a house fall on her head.

mountainman - 4/29/2025, 11:05 AM

Psylocke is a popular comic character and could be cool on screen. Olivia Munn’s version coming back wouldn’t make sense for anything besides a small role in a big action scene. She was never a major player in the movies and the actors they are bringing back are from the OG era not the first class era.

Maybe they bring back the awful Last Stand version of Psylocke or the no name actress that played her in D&W.

Fogs - 4/29/2025, 11:17 AM

I believe everything here, tbh. They'll never miss that moment with evans and rdj as their classic heroes in another crowd pleasing 'WOW' moment (even if it's just more gloried cameos).

Well, it's better than nothing I guess, at least we might at last have the avengers, x-men, f4 and more together.

Pisses me off that since the multiverse saga began we're hinted at universes better than the mcu, like in MoM.

BraxtonHicks - 4/29/2025, 11:24 AM

Watch the literal Void be a lifeboat of sorts for whoever/whatever is left.

supermanrex - 4/29/2025, 11:27 AM

claremont is awesome but that man dont know shit about this movie. what about him would get him such deep intel? he was more than likely just pulling shit out of his ass like everyone else is right now. Feige's business model of super secret everything leaves room for all this shit to fester and grow and build false hope and narratives that eventually move from rumor to hype to fact to disappointment when none of it happens in the actual movie. all because they wont come out like gunn does and say what is bullshit without giving spoilers. at least tell us what is bullshit.

McMurdo - 4/29/2025, 11:36 AM

@supermanrex - well I mean that and they don't have a finished script lol.

gambgel - 4/29/2025, 11:38 AM

He also said Famke is returning as Phoenix. Why did you ignored that part?

not that I believe he knows all this stuff, tho.

Timerider - 4/29/2025, 11:48 AM

The wrath of Kevin Feige and Bob Iger will come down on him hard if he did reveal too much. It’s time to call the lawyers.

SummersEssex - 4/29/2025, 2:03 PM

Just keep the MCU X-Men as close to Claremont's as possible and we cool.

abd00bie - 4/29/2025, 2:19 PM

If true, Claremont dropping scoops bigger than all the other "scoopers" combined lol

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X-MEN Writer Chris Claremont Has Seemingly Dropped Some HUGE Spoilers For AVENGERS: SECRET WARS

Famed X-Men writer Chris Claremont recently appeared at a comic convention and appeared to drop a series of major story spoilers for the upcoming Avengers: Secret Wars movie. Read on for further details...

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