Jean Grey Actress Famke Janssen Will Return in Avengers: Doomsday, X-Men Writer Claims

Marvel's seasoned X-Men writer Chris Claremont has said that Famke Janssen volition beryllium backmost arsenic Jean Grey successful Avengers: Doomsday — contempt erstwhile claims by the histrion that she's not involved.

Speaking via the Power of X-Men podcast, successful a clip shared to Instagram, Claremont praises the caller Avengers: Doomsday trailer featuring assorted bequest X-Men movie formed members and goes connected to authorities that Janssen volition look arsenic well.

The trailer shows Patrick Stewart's Professor X, Ian McKellen's Magneto, and James Marsden's Cyclops

"The happening I find astir fantastic astir it is they're bringing back... the archetypal cast, including Famke," Claremont commented.

This isn't the archetypal clip Claremont has made notable claims astir the plots of Avengers: Doomsday and its upcoming sequel Avengers: Secret Wars. At the Huntsville Pop Culture Expo past year, Claremont appeared to uncover galore different returning characters not yet (then) confirmed for the movies.

Speaking successful April 2025, Claremont said that Chris Evans would instrumentality — thing that Marvel has present officially confirmed. Elizabeth Olsen volition besides beryllium backmost arsenic Scarlet Witch, Claremont continued, and the movies would besides see the quality Psylocke.

At the time, Marvel fans speculated that Claremont could beryllium privy to crippled details aft being drafted successful arsenic an X-Men advisor — a relation that different Marvel comic publication writers person performed for erstwhile movies. Whether he'll proceed to bash this successful aboriginal if helium keeps discussing what helium knows is different matter, however.

As for Janssen herself, the histrion has antecedently denied being asked by Marvel to reprise her role, saying the question has "never" and "never ever" been enactment to her since the extremity of Fox’s X-Men movies. Janssen played Jean Grey from 2000’s X-Men close up to a cameo successful 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. Her character, arsenic the Phoenix, died successful 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand, with Game of Thrones prima Sophie Turner taking implicit the relation for consequent X-Men movies.

Principal photography for Avengers: Doomsday wrapped precocious past year, though it's wide understood that Marvel plans additionaling filming for the movie this spring, with an oculus to including much characters whose actors were unavailable past clip around.

Fox X-Men veterans acceptable for Doomsday see the aforementioned Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, and James Marsden, arsenic good arsenic Kelsey Grammer, Alan Cumming, and Rebecca Romijn. Grammer famously played Beast successful the Fox X-Men franchise earlier making his MCU debut via The Marvels' post-credits scene. Stewart played Charles Xavier/Professor X successful the X-Men films earlier appearing concisely successful the MCU via Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness arsenic a subordinate of the Illuminati. McKellen, who played Magneto, has yet to look successful the MCU. Neither has Cumming, who played Nightcrawler, Romijn, who played Mystique, nor Marsden. It begs the question: is Avengers: Doomsday secretly an Avengers vs. X-Men movie?

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