We’re still a good 14 months away from the release of Avengers: Doomsday, so don’t expect to see much from Marvel Studios’ next film — beyond its casting and title treatment, that is — for a while now. But Doomsday directing team Joe and Anthony Russo have at least delivered dozens of pixels for starving Marvel fans to sustain themselves with, posting a cryptic teaser to their shared Instagram account.
The teaser is simple: an incredibly low-res image paired with the hashtag #DoomsdayIsComing. That’s it! But that morsel hasn’t stopped fans from squinting and speculating about what it could mean. And Marvel fans seem to agree on one interpretation of the following image: It’s a chalkboard.
Specifically, it’s theorized to be Reed Richards’ chalkboard. As previously seen in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the Mr. Fantastic of Earth-828 loves to scribble complex mathematical equations in chalk, and that’s what folks are seeing in the Russos’ latest tease. Those barely legible drawings might even contain an illustration of a timeline, which could indicate Richards calculating where things went horribly wrong in the world of Doomsday. Certainly, the Avengers pulled off reality-changing time heists in Avengers: Endgame, and one Reed Richards might just be trying to resolve the temporal shenanigans that have brought various timelines and realities together in a fashion that displeases Doctor Doom.
But that’s just speculation. We don’t really know much about the plot of Avengers: Doomsday. And if the script is being written or rewritten on the set of Doomsday, which is currently filming, it’s hard to say if even the Russos know the full extent of the next Avengers movie’s story.
In the absence of confirmed news on Avengers: Doomsday, die-hard Marvel fans have been looking for crumbs about the next MCU tentpole — and mostly coming up empty. Actors who are filming their parts for Avengers: Doomsday are talking around the film, offering little in the way of specifics.
Speaking to Collider, Gambit actor Channing Tatum only offered hype, likening the experience to a much bigger version of Deadpool & Wolverine, which was replete with cameos and crossovers. “You just can’t understand what this is going to be,” Tatum said. “Anybody that has loved these things growing up, it’s going to melt your brain. It’s going to be the biggest thing that they’ve ever done, that is for sure.”
Red Guardian actor David Harbour similarly talked up the scale of Doomsday, telling ScreenRant, “I will say I’ve never been on a set like this in my life. I’ve never seen anything like this. You saw those chairs. So it’s like, every one of those guys and girls has a trailer. It’s just insane to look around the room and be like, ‘Oh my god, I’m in the movie. There’s what’s his face doing that speech.’ It’s just enormous.”
But mostly fans have been left to speculate, hounding Ryan Reynolds to see if Deadpool’s coming back and even monitoring the size of Chris Evans — aka Captain America and the Human Torch — to determine if he’s in supersoldier shape for an unannounced reason.
Get ready for another year-plus of this, as Avengers: Doomsday won’t arrive in movie theaters until Dec. 18, 2026. The MCU story will inch forward next summer, just not at Doomsday scale, when Spider-Man: Brand New Day comes to theaters in July.
