Ryan Reynolds & Hugh Jackman’s Avengers: Doomsday Roles Clarified In New MCU Update

Published Nov 12, 2026, 12:32 PM EST Felipe Rangel is a Movie and TV Journalist ScreenRant. He has been writing about movies and TV since 2021. Felipe joined ScreenRant in 2022, working across different teams, covering everything from breaking news to features to reviews and more. Felipe is a writer who is an avid film and TV fan, with superhero movies and series being his biggest passion. He graduated from college in 2019, having studied Journalism. Before college, he spent a month studying at the Oxford English Centre. His superhero knowledge expands to the comics, with his undergraduate thesis being "Politics Reflected In American Comics." Sign in to your ScreenRant account This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available.Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are confirmed to play a role in Avengers: Doomsday. Avengers: Doomsday's cast includes characters from all over the Marvel Cinematic Universe and other places within the larger live-action Marvel multiverse. The latter includes players from Fox's original X-Men movie timeline, such as Patrick Stewart's Charles Xavier, James Marsden's Cyclops, and many more. However, Marvel did not announce Jackman's Wolverine for the Avengers movie despite the fact that he led the R-rated hit Deadpool & Wolverine for the MCU and that he was part of Fox's X-Men franchise. The same rings true for Reynolds' Deadpool despite the fact that Channing Tatum's Gambit is in Doomsday's trailers. Now, both have confirmed Avengers movie roles, but with a twist. According to the Writers Guild of America directory, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are listed for additional literary material in Avengers: Doomsday. They are not the only ones in that category, as even though the Deadpool and Wolverine stars stand as the only actors on the list, names like Spider-Man: Brand New Day director Destin Daniel Cretton, the creator of Loki, Michael Waldron, and more appear on the same list. In full, those credited for additional literary material in Avengers: Doomsday are Stephen McFeely, Waldron, Eric Pearson, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Jeff Loveness, Andrew Lanham, Cretton, Reynolds, and Jackman. Developing...