Marvel sprung a surprise for its fans on Friday evening, dropping a look at its upcoming tentpole, Avengers: Doomsday, just a couple of weeks after the trailer. The new video, unveiled after a cryptic countdown, gives the backstory of Doctor Doom, the film’s antagonist played by Robert Downey Jr, and the Avengers and X-Men’s efforts to stop him.Avengers Doomsday special lookThe 2-minute, 10-second special look opens with Victor von Doom sitting on this throne as Sue Storm’s voice informs that he was always ‘the smartest person in the room’ and how he got lost after his loved ones were taken from him. We see Sue (Vanessa Kirby) talk to Magneto (Ian McKellen), Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), Shang-Chi (Simu Liu), Shuri (Letitia Wright), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), and Gambit (Channing Tatum). This follows a montage of a world laid to waste, after which Reed (Pedro Pascal) confronts Doom about whether he did this.The video then kicks into high gear as Thor takes on Doom (Robert Downey Jr), promising he will ‘beg for hell’. But Doom nonchalantly blocks the God of Thunder, flicking him away easily. He then delivers a line that is sure to become iconic: “Hell answers to me, for I am Doom.” He then unleashes his Sentinels on the world. The video was unveiled at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event. All about Avengers DoomsdayDirected by Anthony and Joe Russo; produced by Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito and Jonathan Schwartz; Avengers Doomsday stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Pedro Pascal, Paul Rudd, Anthony Mackie, Florence Pugh, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Wyatt Russell, Channing Tatum, Simu Liu, Ian McKellen, Hayley Atwell, Tom Hiddleston, James Marsden, Patrick Stewart, Joseph Quinn, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Letitia Wright, Lewis Pullman, Kelsey Grammer, Kathryn Newton, Danny Ramirez, Winston Duke, Alan Cumming, Hannah John-Kamen, Rebecca Romijn, Mabel Cadena, with Tenoch Huerta Mejia.In Avengers: Doomsday, Marvel heroes from three distinct universes will be set on a deadly collision course and face Doom, an existential threat unlike anything they’ve ever encountered. The film is MCU's first Avengers title since Endgame in 2019.Avengers Doomsday will be released on December 18, the same day as the third instalment of Warner Bros.' sci-fi series Dune, setting up a box-office battle dubbed Dunesday.
