Alan Cumming, who first wowed X-Males followers together with his flip because the teleporting, blue-skinned mutant Nightcrawler in X2: X-Males United, will return for Avengers: Doomsday, and in it, he’ll be dealing with off with one other main character within the movie.
In a current interview, Cumming casually dropped a significant element about his character’s upcoming MCU conflict and it guess this might be thought-about a spoiiler, so proceed at your personal threat:
“Proper now, I am doing it once more. I am enjoying Nightcrawler once more and was studying stunts yesterday for some struggle scene.
“I am type of studying these fights and I am like, ‘What, who am I combating with?’ [They’re like,] ‘You are hitting Pedro Pascal in opposition to the pinnacle.’ I am unable to fairly imagine [that].”
So, Nightcrawler goes toe-to-toe with Pedro Pascal’s Mister Unbelievable.
Cumming didn’t appear completely certain what the struggle was about, however it was sufficient to mild up fan hypothesis. Is that this an all-out X-Males vs. Unbelievable 4 battle? A traditional superhero misunderstanding brawl? Or one thing a lot deeper like a Multiversal Incursion tearing two worlds into battle?
If the comics are something to go by, a looming Incursion would make plenty of sense. The concept of the X-Males clashing with Marvel’s First Household isn’t precisely new.
Followers have been speculating that Avengers: Doomsday is appearing as a stealth Avengers vs. X-Males film. Cumming’s little spoiler simply gave that concept some weight.
The confirmed forged already contains heavy hitters like Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), James Marsden (Cyclops), Kelsey Grammer (Beast), and even Channing Tatum as Gambit, carried over from Deadpool & Wolverine.
Notably absent are characters like Jean Gray, Storm, Rogue, and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, however we’re ready for extra casting bulletins.
And whereas the X-Males reunion is thrilling, Cumming himself appears delighted about suiting up once more.
“Is not it nuts? I am excited and amazed. It has been 23 years since I used to be a superhero. I’ve had some make-up exams already for the function, however what’s nice about it was that earlier than it was about 4 and a half hours to use it, however now it is solely 90 minutes.”
Even the make-up and tattoos acquired a tech improve:
“Earlier than, all the tattoos had been performed by hand. They hadn’t selected them earlier than we began filming. Now, they only stick onto my face. It is a sport changer. I am going again to being a 60-year-old superhero, and everybody appears actually pretty.”
Nightcrawler’s iconic White Home sequence in X2 remains to be thought-about one of the crucial visually beautiful moments in any superhero movie. If the Russo Brothers need to high that, throwing him right into a high-speed showdown with Reed Richards would possibly simply do the trick.