'Look Hard...' Avengers: Doomsday Directors Share Mysterious Set Photo, Which Fans Believe is a Big X-Men Tease

The Russo brothers person shared a teasing photograph from the Avengers: Doomsday set, alongside the caption: "look hard."

The monochrome image, below, shows 1 of the brothers sat successful a director's seat facing distant from the camera, surrounded by objects that look to person been cautiously positioned to lucifer a bid of letters.

If this sounds familiar, well, the Russo Brothers shared a precise akin photograph — monochrome, with 1 of the brothers successful a director's chair, surrounding by objects that look to lucifer letters — with the nonstop aforesaid caption backmost successful September 2018, during the accumulation of Avengers: Endgame.

Back then, fans deduced the movie's sanction from the objects successful the photo, which had been positioned to lucifer the letters A and E. But we already cognize the sanction of Avengers: Doomsday present — so, what are the Russos up to this time?

Discussing the representation connected reddit, fans judge there's an evident A and X connected either broadside of the caller photo, with perchance a V signifier successful the middle. What could this mean? Well, galore person surmised that the photograph is teasing an "AvX" conflict — Avengers v X-Men — which we already cognize is simply a beardown possibility.

Of course, Marvel has officially announced galore members of the Fox-era X-Men films arsenic portion of the Avengers: Doomsday cast, though the nonstop quality of their relation successful the movie's crippled hasn't been disclosed. All we cognize for definite is that Patrick Stewart volition erstwhile again reprise his relation arsenic Professor X, alongside Kelsey Grammer's Beast, James Marsden's Cyclops, Rebecca Romijn's Mystique, and Ian McKellen's Magneto.

However, acknowledgment to comments from chatty Nightcrawler histrion Alan Cumming, it sounds similar the Avengers and X-Men bash so look disconnected against each different (Cumming antecedently discussed being successful a combat with Pedro Pascal's Mr. Fantastic, though aboriginal suggested that owed to the magnitude of greenish surface shooting involved, helium was nary longer certain).

Such a face-off would possibly marque sense, if the Avengers arrived wrong the X-Men beingness and were perceived to beryllium a menace — particularly if Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom is involved, and manipulating 1 squad against the other. We've already seen a quality question implicit to the X-Men universe, excessively — Teyonah Parris' Monica Rambeau ended up determination alongside Beast astatine the extremity of The Marvels.

So, is this what the Russo brothers are present teasing? Or is determination adjacent much to the representation than expected? It seems improbable astatine this constituent that Doomsday mightiness get a last-minute sanction alteration to Avengers vs. X-Men, though immoderate fans person suggested the movie's story, which volition proceed successful 2027's Avengers: Secret Wars, inactive seems excessively large for conscionable 2 films.

Could we spot a 3rd Avengers movie, turning this latest harvest of blockbusters into a afloat trilogy? Alas, this besides does look improbable — particularly arsenic Disney replaced a spare 2027 movie merchandise day it had reserved for Marvel this week with the freshly-announced Simpsons Movie 2.

Still, we cognize Marvel has large plans for X-Men successful the future. Following the events of Secret Wars, Marvel brag Kevin Feige has said that a semi-rebooted timeline volition spot a new, younger X-Men squad travel to the fore, successful a caller X-Men movie acceptable to beryllium directed by Thunderbolts*/The New Avengers' Jake Schreier. Hopefully we find retired the existent meaning of the Russo brothers' tease earlier the accomplishment of that.

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