{"id":2597,"date":"2025-01-31T00:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T00:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/chris-evans-insists-hes-not-returning-to-mcu\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T00:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T00:54:17","slug":"chris-evans-insists-hes-not-returning-to-mcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/chris-evans-insists-hes-not-returning-to-mcu\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Evans Insists He’s Not Returning to MCU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n

Chris Evans Denies Return to the MCU for Avengers: Doomsday<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last week, Benedict Cumberbatch made a bold declaration that Doctor Strange would not appear in Avengers: Doomsday, only to walk that back and admit that yes, the Sorcerer Supreme would indeed be in the film, rather than waiting for Avengers: Secret Wars. His Avengers cohort, Chris Evans, the former Captain America, has picked up the thread and stomped all over it by insisting his time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is done, done, done.<\/p>\n

This latest statement, made in an Esquire piece (via the Hollywood Reporter), profiling the current Captain America, Anthony Mackie, who has Captain America: Brave New World coming out on February 14, is entering broken-record territory at this point. Responding to talk of his return, reported in the trades most recently in December 2024, Evans told the magazine, \u201cThat\u2019s not true… This always happens. I mean, it happens every couple years\u2014ever since Endgame. I\u2019ve just stopped responding to it,\u201d and added that he\u2019s \u201chappily retired.\u201d<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s true: Evans\u2019 return to the MCU has been rumored for years (in 2023, he did say \u201cnever say never\u201d about returning to play Cap, which he called as \u201ca precious role to me\u201d)\u2014and Marvel fans technically did get him back, albeit in a jokey take on his Fantastic Four character Johnny Storm, thanks to a surprise cameo in last summer\u2019s Deadpool & Wolverine.<\/p>\n

Mackie told Esquire he was just as startled by that December report as everyone else, claiming \u201cI didn\u2019t know… I was like, \u2018You know, they said they\u2019re bringing everyone back for the movie. Are you coming back?’\u201d Apparently, Mackie does a dead-on Evans impression, and said Evans told him exactly what he\u2019d told Esquire: \u201cI\u2019m happily retired.\u201d<\/p>\n

The truth is, Avengers: Doomsday is likely to remain a big ball of mystery until we\u2019re much closer to its May 2026 release. What little we know about it so far does include some MCU returns in directors the Russo Brothers, and former Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. stepping into the role of Doctor Doom. But you can guarantee all the big, juicy Marvel secrets\u2014like, say, Chris \u201cI\u2019m Retired\u201d Evans dusting off his Cap costume, or perhaps portraying another character entirely (probably not Johnny Storm, though)\u2014will stay tightly under wraps until audiences are seated in theaters.<\/p>\n

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