Chris Evans Nonetheless Insists He is Not Returning to the MCU

Final week, Benedict Cumberbatch made the daring declaration that Physician Unusual received’t seem in Avengers: Doomsday—solely to stroll that again and admit that sure, we can be seeing the Sorcerer Supreme in that movie, quite than having to attend for  Avengers: Secret Wars. His Avengers cohort Chris Evans, the previous Captain America, has picked up the thread and stomped throughout it by insisting his time within the Marvel Cinematic Universe is finished, performed, performed.

This newest assertion—made in an Esquire piece (through the Hollywood Reporter) profiling the present Captain America, Anthony Mackie, who has Captain America: Courageous New World popping out February 14—is coming into broken-record territory at this level. Responding to speak of his return, reported within the trades most not too long ago in December 2024, Evans informed the journal “That’s not true … This at all times occurs. I imply, it occurs each couple years—ever since Endgame. I’ve simply stopped responding to it,” and added that he’s “fortunately retired.”

And it’s true: Evans’ return to the MCU has been rumored for years (in 2023, he did say “by no means say by no means” about returning to play Cap, which he referred to as as “a valuable function to me”)—and Marvel followers technically did get him again, albeit in a jokey tackle his Unbelievable 4 character Johnny Storm, because of a shock cameo in final summer time’s Deadpool & Wolverine.

Mackie informed Esquire he was simply as startled by that December report as everybody else, claiming “I didn’t know! … I used to be like, ‘, they stated they’re bringing everybody again for the film. Are you coming again?’” Apparently, Mackie does a dead-on Evans impression, and stated Evans informed him precisely what he’d informed Esquire: “I’m fortunately retired.”

The reality is, Avengers: Doomsday is more likely to stay an enormous ball of thriller till we’re a lot nearer to its Could 2026 launch. What little we find out about it thus far does embrace some MCU returns in administrators the Russo Brothers, and former Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. entering into the function of Physician Doom. However you may assure all the large, juicy Marvel secrets and techniques—like, say, Chris “I’m Retired” Evans dusting off his Cap costume, or maybe portraying one other character fully (most likely not Johnny Storm, although)—will keep tightly underneath wraps till audiences are seated in theaters.

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