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Nicholas Hoult Confirms No Return as Beast in Avengers: Doomsday, Praises Kelsey Grammer’s Legacy

  • Avengers: Doomsday, featuring Kelsey Grammer as Beast, is scheduled to premiere on December 18, 2026, continuing the Marvel Cinematic Universe saga.
  • Marvel acquired the X-Men characters, bringing back original cast members while Nicholas Hoult confirmed he had no talks about reprising Beast.
  • Avengers: Doomsday is filming in the U.K. under the Russo Brothers and unites legacy mutants including Grammer with MCU veterans like Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Hemsworth.
  • Hoult told Entertainment Weekly, "Kelsey was a great Beast" and called the returning original actors "the characters I got to watch" as a child.
  • Hoult focuses on playing Lex Luthor in James Gunn's Superman releasing July 11, 2025, while Avengers: Secret Wars will conclude the Multiverse Saga in 2027.
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Entertainment Weekly broke the news in United States on Wednesday, July 2, 2025.
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