We’re lower than two weeks away from seeing Nicholas Hoult play Lex Luthor in James Gunn’s Superman, however anybody aware of the actor is aware of this isn’t his first time appearing within the superhero style. He beforehand starred as Hank McCoy, a.ok.a. Beast, within the First Class-era X-Males motion pictures from 2011 to 2019, succeeding Kelsey Grammer within the function. Grammer is now set to play Beast once more in subsequent 12 months’s Avengers: Doomsday, and Hoult shared his ideas concerning the return and if he was ever referred to as about showing on this or any of the opposite upcoming Marvel motion pictures.
Nicholas Hoult’s Excited To See Kelsey Grammer And Extra In Avengers: Doomsday
Again in March, Marvel unveiled the Avengers: Doomsday solid with a livestream that confirmed off the names of the taking part actors on director’s chairs. Among the many lineup was Patrick Stewart as Professor X, Ian McKellen as Magneto, Rebecca Romijn as Mystique, Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler and James Marsden as Cylcops, together with Channing Tatum reprising Gambit following his debut in Deadpool & Wolverine. Nicholas Hoult shared his response to the solid reveal as follows:
Kelsey was a fantastic Beast. He was the Beast I noticed once I was a child, together with the opposite actors that they are bringing again, Patrick and Ian and James and all them.
The X-Males movie collection launched in 2000 and helped popularize the superhero film style in Hollywood alongside the Blade and Spider-Man motion pictures. In 2006, Kelsey Grammer appeared as Beast in X-Males: The Final Stand, with the character being depicted because the Secretary of Mutant Affairs. He later cameoed in X-Males: Days of Future Previous, however that was the extent of his involvement with the franchise when twentieth Century Fox had the movie rights. Hoult continued to EW:
These have been the characters that I acquired to look at in X-Males motion pictures. I am excited to see what they do with it. It will be enjoyable to see how they incorporate these characters into that world.
Avengers: Doomsday marks Kelsey Grammer’s second look within the MCU, as he made a shock cameo as Beast in The Marvels’ end-credits scene two years in the past. Nevertheless, it is a completely different Beast than the one he beforehand performed, with this model being a completely CGI creation who lives in the identical universe because the Maria Rambeau variant who goes by Binary. It stays to be seen if the Beast in Doomsday shall be that model or one more doppelgänger.
Did Marvel Name Nicholas Hoult About Avengers: Doomsday?
So Beast followers can look ahead to the blue-furred mutant leaping again into motion on the finish of subsequent 12 months, however has Nicholas Hoult ever had discussions with Marvel Studios about reprising the character. He gave a easy, one-word response:
No.
It doesn’t get any extra reduce and dry than that. Actually, not one of the First Class-era X-Males actors have returned to their roles because the major movie collection resulted in 2019 with Darkish Phoenix. If the multiverse nonetheless elements into MCU storytelling after The Multiverse Saga ends, then perhaps there’ll come a day when that modifications. For now although, Hoult has sufficient to maintain him busy on the superhero entrance taking part in Lex Luthor, as a result of I doubt Superman would be the solely time we see him within the DC Universe.
Superman arrives in theaters on July 11, after which Supergirl will hold the theatrical facet of the DCU going with a June 26, 2026. Avengers: Doomsday bows in theaters on December 18, 2026, after which Avengers: Secret Wars will shut out The Multiverse Saga on December 17, 2027.