Prepare to don your jolted capes, folks! Casting bombshell news has just detonated in Hollywood for everyone. Alan Cumming and Sir Ian McKellen are returning to work for another Avenger project: Doomsday. You heard it here: The duo who brought you the words Magneto and Nightcrawler are teaming up once again, but now for Avenger’s uses. And to be honest, the whole net is going haywire.
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Film Updates broke the word on Twitter, and reply began popping up faster than Quicksilver on caffeine. Some fans immediately threw lighting by referring to the whole affair as being hilarious enough for Orlando Munoz. ‘There are three gays looking at each other closely,’ said user Old Man Señor Chang, implicating both actors about their sexualities along with the cultist references of the X-Men movies. A little reminder that the two of them have been down this road before, and, frankly, you can cut the tension with a knife.
Others would have nothing to do with it but lose it over X-Men; Pretty1 tweeted, ‘It’s Nightcrawler and Magneto!’ Devi Oktavia chimed in, ‘Magneto and Nightcrawler 🤩’ Nothing ever really dies; it just evolves into another hype train. Honestly, who can fault them? Watching the two share a screen once more in yet another universe feels like a monumental full-circle moment in the history of comic book movies.
Interesting that nostalgia was not the only reason for the frenzy. ‘My inner child is so excited ahhh’ was what user ᥫ᭡ tweeted, to which anyone would respond, ‘same.’ The joy in that reply could almost be felt through the screen, and indeed, that is the same mood that a decent lot of us share. When two icons are back together, we can’t help but channel our inner excited child waiting for the next adventure.
Not everyone would buy it, though. Ken Takura put out ‘Like for real? Excitement,’ with a stimulating mixture of languages conveying just right the skepticism within the hype circulating about the whole announcement. Franklin ICT simply put, ‘Interesting thing to do.’ Fair point right there. Not everybody is gonna be crazy with it, but come on, it’s McKellen and Cumming. In a Marvel movie. That’s peanut butter chocolate levels of awesome.
Of course, no Twitter thread is complete without drama! PromptlyAI ominously tweeted, ‘Doom is coming for them all,’ with a cryptic link. `Is either a legit spoiler or some good old trolling remains to be seen, but surely does stir up the pot.` On the other hand, Aatif Astrologer called it ‘Wonderful details about AVENGERS: Doomsday’—okay, if by ‘details’ it means ‘two names and a whole deal of hype.’
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Anyway, it is much more than just a brilliant casting choice-it reminds one how interconnected pop culture can be and how cyclical in many ways. These two actors contributed to the birth of an era of superhero movies, and now they are moving on to defining yet another chapter together. Whether they’re going to be playing allies, enemies, or somewhere in between, the internet is definitely going to be watching, oh yes. And probably will be screaming. Mostly screaming.
