Hayley Atwell’s Agent Carter May Spy Again in Avengers: Doomsday

Avengers: Doomsday is shaping up to beryllium rather a spot of an aboriginal MCU reunion: Deadline reports that the Russo brothers person saved a creation for nary different than Hayley Atwell herself.

The commercialized has connection that Atwell volition reprise her relation arsenic Peggy Carter successful Doomsday. While Atwell has appeared aggregate times successful the MCU since the decision of Peggy’s ABC play spy portion Agent Carter and the character’s present-day passing in The Winter Soldier, some arsenic Peggy successful period-set sequences and arsenic her multiversal variant Captain Carter in Multiverse of Madness and What If?, it’s absorbing that Deadline specifically notes that she’ll beryllium playing Agent Peggy Carter present again. io9 has reached retired to Marvel for remark connected the report, and volition update this portion if and erstwhile we perceive back.

It suggests that, for each the vagueness astir this week’s earlier reporting that Chris Evans volition instrumentality successful Doomsday arsenic well, alternatively than pulling a Robert Downey Jr. switcheroo and having him represent different character, Evans is astir apt reprising the relation of Steve Rogers successful immoderate capacity. In fact, Deadline says arsenic much, further expanding connected prior reports successful 2021 that Evans was discussing a instrumentality to Marvel (the histrion denied them astatine the time), adding that the imaginable plan astatine the clip was to person Atwell besides instrumentality arsenic Peggy alongside him, successful a standalone movie.

While those plans seemingly fell done astatine a communicative stage, some Marvel and Atwell and Evans’ camps reportedly see Doomsday arsenic the amended accidental to instrumentality some characters to the large screen. Just how, and successful what form? Well, we’ll beryllium uncovering that out, if astatine all, overmuch much person to Avengers: Doomsday‘s May 1, 2026 merchandise date.

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