Robert Downey Jr. has assembled the Avengers to support the Thunderbolts*.
The former Iron Man star shared a photo on Instagram of himself and a few of his Avengers: Doomsday co-stars Friday after they watched the MCU’s latest installment. Downey congratulated the “So cool, fresh and deep” film alongside “the Old Avengers” and a few new faces with a group shot.
“Just wow!!! Dinner and a show with the Old Avengers. So cool, fresh, and deep. Big congrats. #thunderbolts,” Downey wrote on Friday.
He posed for a group shot alongside a few of his Avengers: Endgame co-stars, including Thor’s Chris Hemsworth, Ant-Man lead Paul Rudd, Anthony Mackie, who’s been a part of Captain America for years and recently took over the franchise, and Winston Duke, who played M’Baku in Black Panther.
Fellow Marvel alum Simu Liu, who previously starred in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, was also featured in the picture alongside MCU newbies and fellow Doomsday cast members Channing Tatum, Vanessa Kirby and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.
Tatum debuted in the MCU in Deadpool & Wolverine as the X-Men character Remy LeBeau/Gambit. Vanessa Kirby and Ebon Moss-Bachrach will portray Sue Storm/The Invisible and Ben Grimm/The Thing, respectively, in Fantastic Four: First Steps later this summer.
After departing from the mega-franchise following Endgame in 2019, Downey announced his return to the MCU as infamous villain Doctor Doom last July. Next year, he will originate the character in Doomsday along with a second slated appearance in 2027’s Avengers: Secret Wars.
Thunderbolts* notably “assembles an unconventional team of antiheroes.” Sebastian Stan, who has reappeared in multiple stints across the franchise, returns as Bucky Barnes, though the rest of the cast are relatively new MCU stars. Stan leads the film alongside Florence Pugh (Yelena Belova), Wyatt Russell (John Walker), David Harbour (Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian), Lewis Pullman (Bob), Hannah John-Kamen (Ghost), Olga Kurylenko (Taskmaster) and Julia Louis-Dreyfus (CIA director Valentine Allegra de Fontaine).
