Big news out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe from San Diego Comic Con this weekend - Marvel has officially axed Jonathan Majors as Kang and pivoted to a new big bad (for a couple movies anyway) - Dr. Doom. First, I don't know that I've seen anyone f*ck themselves so hard as Majors did with Kang - he had a f*cking franchise and ruined it. Shame, because he's a very talented actor. Anyway, the Dr. Doom reveal is below (this is, in fact, a NERDGASM of the highest order):
Now, the comic book nerd is me is desperate to know - will this be some alternate universe Tony Stark as Doom? Or is this Victor Von Doom with RDJ (Marvel has had actors play two roles before - notably Josh Brolin as Thanos and Cable)? I'm hoping for the latter, and man, as much as I love RDJ, there were lots of other options here - namely:
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
The other films on display I'm excited for (and leading to what will be an absolutely bonkers Secret Wars film which, if you don't know the story, is where a cosmic being called The Beyonder basically groups heroes/villains together on an unknown planet and has them go at it Hunger Games style...) were:
Thunderbolts
Fantastic 4
I'll add - with Deadpool and Wolverine officially joining the MCU with their most recent movie, I have to wonder when they will formally start interacting with everyone else. To date, the MCU has not had any mutants.
