At SpaceCon, Famke Janssen said she won’t be in Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Doomsday, which hits theaters on May 1, 2026. Janssen, who played Jean Grey in 20th Century Fox’s X-Men films, said Marvel never contacted her about appearing in the movie. Her reaction was blunt: “I think they made a mistake, but who am I?” That line has already gotten people talking, especially with Marvel bringing more actors back from Fox’s X-Men run.
Avengers: Doomsday arrives on May 1, 2026, and it already looks like one of the biggest multiverse entries in Phase Six. Marvel Studios has confirmed appearances from Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James Marsden, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, and Kelsey Grammer.
Which makes Janssen’s absence stand out even more. Her Jean Grey was central to Fox’s original X-Men movies, especially once the Phoenix story came into play. For a lot of fans, she’s the most obvious piece missing from that reunion.
And she’s not the only one. Shawn Ashmore has also said nobody reached out to him, and Halle Berry has hinted that she won’t be showing up either.
At the same time, James McAvoy says he still hasn’t gotten the call. Michael Fassbender have both said they’d be open to coming back, though McAvoy says he still hasn’t gotten the call. If you’ve been following Marvel’s legacy X-Men casting, that lines up with what industry reports have been saying for a while: Marvel still appears to be working two tracks here, using Doomsday for nostalgia-heavy returns while holding a separate X-Men reboot with a younger cast for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Author: Jesús Bosque
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