James Marsden is back in the visor. What he said about the man who used to stand next to him is another matter entirely.
While promoting his new Hulu film Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice this week, Marsden sat down with ComicBook.com and was asked about returning to the role of Cyclops in Avengers: Doomsday, due in theaters December 18. The conversation turned, as it inevitably does, to Hugh Jackman, and whether Wolverine would be joining his oldX-Men castmates on screen.
Marsden's answer stopped short in a way that sent the internet into overdrive.
'I love Hugh Jackman, and I love the dynamic between Wolverine and Cyclops,' the actor said. 'It was always a brotherly, healthy competition between the two of them, where they were annoyed with each other. It did feel like a brotherly relationship.'
Then came the part fans are still dissecting. 'I wouldn't say that I was excited to slide into that role without him barking in my ear. He was missed. I'm trying to… answer, without saying too much… Yeah, that's my answer.'
Two words, 'he was missed", followed by a very deliberate pump of the brakes and a pullback.
Jackman has not been officially confirmed for Avengers: Doomsday. He reprised Wolverine in 2024's Deadpool & Wolverine, and has since declined to give a straight answer about whether he's done with the character. Jackman told Variety's Actors on Actors that the film 'doesn't feel like the end', a comment he has never walked back.
That ambiguity, combined with Marsden's careful non-answer, has sent fans into full speculation mode. 'Don’t think anyone’s buying that Jackman isn’t in the movie,' one responder said. Another fan pointed out that he also could be in it as part of the well-established Marvel multiverse, adding 'part of me thinks the X-Men as seen in Doomsday aren't from THE Fox Universe. Maybe they're from the universe 'our' Wolverine in Deadpool 3 is from.'
There was one more detail worth noting. Marsden confirmed he agreed to return as Cyclops without reading the script, and the conversation about his involvement happened before he had seen a single page. For a film of this scale, that level of trust says something about how Marvel operates, and how much the original X-Men cast wanted back in.
Marsden last played Cyclops in a significant role in 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand, with a brief appearance in Days of Future Past in 2014. Avengers: Doomsday will reunite him with Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, and Rebecca Romijn, all reprising their Fox X-Men roles alongside Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Mackie, Robert Downey Jr., and the cast ofThe Fantastic Four: First Steps.
Whether Jackman's Wolverine is lurking somewhere in that ensemble remains officially unanswered. But the circumstantial case is building. The Russo Brothers have gone conspicuously quiet on the subject every time his name comes up in interviews. And now his most famous on-screen rival is choosing his words with surgical care on a press tour. Can't wait to see what's next!
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