New Trailers! Avengers: Doomsday & The Death of Robin Hood

🎥 The X-Men officially enter Marvel’s next big chapter, while Hugh Jackman strips the shine from Robin Hood, reimagining the outlaw as a shattered legend facing his last stand!

🎥 “Avengers: Doomsday” New Teaser: The X-Men Will Return as Professor X and Magneto Unite While Cyclops Unleashes an Optic Blast — Hitting Theaters December 18th

Ever since Disney’s acquisition deal with FOX that brought these two studios under one umbrella several years ago, Marvel fans have been waiting and wondering how the X-Men universe will finally enter the MCU. How would it work? Well, there are a few methods we’ve already seen teased or tested—most notably in 2024’s blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine, where both the clawed X-Men icon and the merc with the mouth teamed up in a multiverse-hopping collision that treated Fox-era continuity less like sacred canon and more like a playground. It was perhaps Marvel testing the waters, winking at longtime fans, and proving that folding mutants into the MCU doesn’t have to mean a hard reboot—it can be messy, self-aware, and wildly entertaining.

And since the merger, Marvel has slowly incorporated the term “mutant” into other projects, even bringing back Charles Xavier, aka Professor X (played by Patrick Stewart), for a brief cameo in 2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Yet, despite these breadcrumbs, there has still been no clear announcement or concrete plan outlining when—or even how—these beloved X-Men characters will fully return and take their place in the MCU.

Well, X-Men fans might have just gotten their best indication yet that Marvel is finally ready to pull that X-Men trigger, as this latest teaser for Avengers: Doomsday straight-up confirms that “The X-Men will return…” Now before we start jumping for joy and locking our raised arms in an X-like motion, it’s probably worth slowing down for a second and taking a closer look at what Marvel is actually promising here.

In this new Doomsday teaser, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are confirmed to be back as former archrivals, ex-frenemies, and now mutant brothers-in-arms: the wheelchair-bound telepath Professor X and the Holocaust survivor–turned–mutant supremacist Erik Lehnsherr, aka Magneto. They are certainly much older, with time having etched itself into both men, but still spry enough to sit across from one another and play a friendly game of chess.

James Marsden is also confirmed to return, popping up in this new teaser decked out in full X-Men regalia as Scott Summers, better known as Cyclops. He’s seen ripping off his visor before unleashing a full optic energy blast into the sky. The moment feels ominous, with the world around him looking ravaged and engulfed in fire. Looming behind a screaming Cyclops are massive robotic boots stomping through the destruction of what appears to be Xavier’s School for the Gifted. They seemingly belong to the towering limbs of the mutant-hunting robot enforcers known as the Sentinels.

So, what does this actually mean? One guess is that we might be looking at the Fox-era X-Men universe coming to its definitive end. But as Deadpool & Wolverine has already established, it’s entirely possible to leap from one dying multiverse to another. Doomsday may be following a similar playbook—where, in order to face a supervillain as formidable as Doctor Doom (with Robert Downey Jr. returning in the role), the only viable strategy is to pluck the greatest heroes from across multiple universes and assemble them for one massive, reality-spanning showdown.

And while this teaser only highlights these three characters so far, it’s already been announced that Alan Cumming will be back as Nightcrawler, along with Rebecca Romijn returning as Mystique. There’s also a strong chance Channing Tatum could show up as Gambit, following his long-awaited debut in Deadpool & Wolverine. And don’t be surprised if even more X-Men cameos are waiting in the wings.

Now if the X-Men are back, the real question becomes how Marvel plans to use them... are they the centerpiece of what comes next, or the opening move in a much bigger, multiversal reset? Hmmm.

Well, prepare for a year’s worth of fan speculation and theorizing (and likely plenty of bickering), because Avengers: Doomsday won’t be arriving in theaters until the end of the year, on December 18th.

🎥 “The Death of Robin Hood” Trailer: Hugh Jackman Reimagines the Legendary Outlaw as a Broken, Battle-Worn Hero at the End of His Road in Filmmaker Michael Sarnoski’s Gritty, Myth-Stripping Period Drama with Jodie Comer — Coming Soon

Now speaking of the myth of superheroes, and with the question still hanging in the air about whether Hugh Jackman will suit up as Wolverine again for the MCU, one thing’s clear: he’s not done playing worn-down heroes carrying a lifetime of regrets. The Aussie actor gets to take on another beloved superhero of sorts, one famous for his lethal bow-and-arrow skills and for standing up to tyranny alongside a merry band of outlaws. Yes, we’re talking about Robin of Loxley… perhaps better known as Robin Hood.

But this isn’t the Robin Hood you remember. This is a battered, end-of-the-road version of the legend, stripped of the usual swashbuckling charm. Much older, with wild greying hair, he’s now forced to reckon with the deaths he caused and the consequences he’s trying to leave behind after a lifetime of rebellion.

Hailing from acclaimed filmmaker Michael Sarnoski, of Pig and A Quiet Place: Day One fame, The Death of Robin Hood aims to dig into the legend’s final chapter, scraping away every trace of storybook polish in the process. Sure, the comparison to Jackman’s Old Man Logan journey will be inevitable. But this feels more like a reimagining of a folk hero, grounding the myth in mud and mortality while being far less concerned with legend-building and far more interested in what happens to a hero when the fight is over—and all that remains are the scars, the guilt, and the quiet reckoning that follows.

After being critically injured in what he believes will be his final battle, this version of Jackman’s Robin Hood is forced to confront the damage he’s done and the stories history chose to tell about him. This dark period drama, shot on location in Northern Ireland captured on 35mm cameras to give it that raw, tactile feel, follows the old hero roaming the countryside like a lone ghost, or perhaps an aging samurai figure drifting toward the end of his life.

Jackman is joined by Emmy winner Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) as a mysterious woman who offers Robin a chance at salvation, asking him to help look after and protect a group of orphaned children. Of course, with this version of Robin, agreeing to get involved usually comes with harder choices and the uncomfortable reminder that even good intentions can lead to more bloodshed and slaughter. Remember, this is a dark, unforgiving take on the legend.

The supporting cast includes Murray Bartlett, Noah Jupe, and a strong lineup of younger performers as the innocent children, with Bill Skarsgård cast as a reimagined Little John, a former child soldier shaped by Robin’s influence.

A self-professed Robin Hood superfan, writer-director Sarnoski drew inspiration from the earliest and most brutal ballads, not the bedtime-friendly revisions of the myth. So expect less swashbuckling heroics and green-tighted romance, and far more mud, violence, and moral ambiguity.

The Death of Robin Hood will be coming soon to theaters.

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