If you go by the actors who have been working on the film, shooting “Avengers: Doomsday” has been a delight.
Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden and more recently Alan Cumming have talked about their time shooting the Marvel Studios ensemble title in interviews. All have indicated how much easier, nicer and more taken care of they were than when they were on the troubled set of “X2: X-Men United” over twenty years ago.
However, there have also been reports that ‘Doomsday’ isn’t going entirely smoothly. On Friday last week, John Rocha on The Hot Mic talked about ‘dysfunction’ on the set with CBM then alleged that there was a clash “between two particular actors” that “became so heated that certain scenes involving their respective characters had to be altered or removed from the script entirely.”
Rocha, who broke the news about The Hulk and The Punisher appearing in “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” offered further insight today while chatting with podcast host Kristian Harloff. He says he does know who they are but won’t say, however it all appears to have resolved:
“They are two pretty big actors. Apparently, a comment – from what I understand – was made in jest that was a bit too familiar, because these actors didn’t know each other too well. It crossed a line.
One of the actors got really upset about it, confronted the other actor. [It was said] on the set. That caused a big rift. Two very outspoken actors went at each other…one of the actors…Marvel said, ‘We’ll shoot your scenes separately or without the other actor in it, or we’ll figure it out in some other way.’
That actor felt that the fact that Marvel was willing to make those concessions was enough, because they also told this actor that it would cost millions of dollars to shoot scenes without the other actor.
Since Marvel was willing to at least make the effort to concede that and move the schedule around, they felt it was a good-faith effort, and both actors were brought together, apologies were exchanged, and people moved on. Yes, [they’re okay now]. There’s been no other incidents that I’ve heard. It was a pretty big blow-up, apparently.”
Speculation has been rife on social media for the past few hours, but ultimately it doesn’t appear to have led to any real issues with the film’s production which is currently continuing. It’s also not clear when this alleged incident happened – be it earlier in the shoot or more recently.
Cumming also shared with Gold Derby this week that he “did the entire film in isolation. Lots of green screen, face replacement. They even gave characters fake names. I don’t know who I was acting with half the time.”
Finally, scooper DanielRPK has reported that the film’s storyline will deal with Dr. Doom going after people who have caused Incursions to the Multiverse.
“Avengers: Doomsday” is set to open in cinemas in December 2026.
