Here’s Why Fans Think Marvel’s First Avengers: Doomsday Trailer Is Imminent and Will Be Attached to Avatar: Fire and Ash
Fans believe we’re just days away from our first proper peek at Avengers: Doomsday, as Marvel reportedly readies the movie’s debut trailer.
A listing for the trailer has now popped up on the Korean Ratings Board, which mentions the look at Avengers: Doomsday with a runtime of 1 minute and 25 seconds.
The emergence of this rating, amid fevered speculation from Marvel production scoopers, certainly suggests our initial glimpse at Avengers: Doomsday footage is now imminent. And then there’s the other solid reason why we’re likely to get a trailer soon: next week’s launch of fellow Disney blockbuster Avatar: Fire and Ash.
Attaching a new trailer for Avengers: Doomsday to the new Avatar movie would inevitably drive further interest in the blue alien threequel, with some cinemagoers likely attending just to see Robert Downey Jr. and co. on the big screen again after all these year.
And while Avatar: Fire and Ash is certainly expected to do well, there’s added pressure for this chapter in the franchise to succeed. Recent comments from franchise creator James Cameron suggested the filmmaker would be content to step away from the series if Fire and Ash didn’t do as well as expected, leaving plans for an Avatar 4 and 5 in doubt.
Avengers: Doomsday is now almost exactly one year away — another milestone that a trailer might celebrate. Due for release on December 18, 2026, the movie is expected to be Marvel’s biggest launch since 2019’s Avengers: Endgame — which itself will get a re-release next year to remind audiences of the MCU’s last major climax.
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With the return of Downey Jr. and directorial duo Anthony and Joe Russo, many fans believe Doomsday will be pitched as something of a direct sequel to Endgame (and, obviously, it is the first Avengers-branded follow-up since). Rumors abound that another major Endgame star has also been tempted back for a big role, inverting the relationship they had with Iron Man, now Downey Jr. is playing the villainous Doctor Doom.
To date, Marvel has only released its infamous cast reveal “chair” video showing off the film’s enormous ensemble cast that takes in surviving members of the old Avengers, the Thunderbolts (AKA The New Avengers), the Fantastic Four and several high-profile members of the Fox-era X-Men. A few production photos have leaked out over the film’s shoot, and fans certainly have their theories over where Doomsday’s story is headed, but much of the movie remains officially under wraps.
Perhaps we’ll get hints at all of that, when the first Avengers: Doomsday trailer does land… soon.
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