{"id":27972,"date":"2026-01-12T20:58:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=27972"},"modified":"2026-01-12T20:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:58:34","slug":"jean-grey-actress-famke-janssen-will-return-in-avengers-doomsday-x-men-writer-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=27972","title":{"rendered":"Jean Grey Actress Famke Janssen Will Return in Avengers: Doomsday, X-Men Writer Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Marvel&#8217;s veteran X-Men writer Chris Claremont has said that Famke Janssen will be back as Jean Grey in Avengers: Doomsday \u2014 despite previous claims by the actress that she&#8217;s not involved. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Speaking via the Power of X-Men podcast, in a clip shared to Instagram, Claremont praises the recent Avengers: Doomsday trailer featuring various legacy X-Men movie cast members and goes on to state that Janssen will appear as well. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">The trailer shows Patrick Stewart&#8217;s Professor X, Ian McKellen&#8217;s Magneto, and James Marsden&#8217;s Cyclops<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;The thing I find most wonderful about it is they&#8217;re bringing back&#8230; the original cast, including Famke,&#8221; Claremont commented.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-video\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">This isn&#8217;t the first time Claremont has made notable claims about the plots of Avengers: Doomsday and its upcoming sequel Avengers: Secret Wars. At the Huntsville Pop Culture Expo last year, Claremont appeared to reveal numerous other returning characters not yet (then) confirmed for the movies.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Speaking in April 2025, Claremont said that Chris Evans would return \u2014 something that Marvel has now officially confirmed. Elizabeth Olsen will also be back as Scarlet Witch, Claremont continued, and the movies would also include the character Psylocke. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">At the time, Marvel fans speculated that Claremont could be privy to plot details after being drafted in as an X-Men consultant \u2014 a role that other Marvel comic book writers have performed for previous movies. Whether he&#8217;ll continue to do this in future if he keeps discussing what he knows is another matter, however.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-slideshow\"><button type=\"button\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"jsx-2228525885\"\/><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\">\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">The Most Surprising Avengers and Marvel Characters Not Announced for Doomsday<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img alt=\"Despite five hours of streamed casting announcements, there are still several characters and actors fans are surprised won\u2019t be in Avengers: Doomsday. &#10;&lt;br&gt;&#10;&lt;br&gt;&#10;Some we knew about \u2013 such as Elizabeth Olsen\u2019s Scarlet Witch and Benedict Cumberbatch\u2019s Doctor Strange \u2013 but the following omissions are notable given the cosmic cross-over nature of what\u2019s shaping up to be an Avengers, X-Men and Fantastic Four cinematic extravaganza.&#10;\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2021719738 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"\/><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3381835873 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\" style=\"mask:url(https:\/\/kraken.ignimgs.com\/_next\/static\/media\/RightChevron.272be43c.svg) no-repeat center center \/ contain;background:currentColor\"\/><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/output><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">As for Janssen herself, the actress has previously denied being asked by Marvel to reprise her role, saying the question has &#8220;never&#8221; and &#8220;never ever&#8221; been put to her since the end of Fox\u2019s X-Men movies. Janssen played Jean Grey from 2000\u2019s X-Men right up to a cameo in 2014\u2019s X-Men: Days of Future Past. Her character, as the Phoenix, died in 2006\u2019s X-Men: The Last Stand, with Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner taking over the role for subsequent X-Men movies.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Principal photography for Avengers: Doomsday wrapped late last year, though it&#8217;s widely understood that Marvel plans additionaling filming for the movie this spring, with an eye to including more characters whose actors were unavailable last time around. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Fox X-Men veterans set for Doomsday include the aforementioned Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, and James Marsden, as well as Kelsey Grammer, Alan Cumming, and Rebecca Romijn. Grammer famously played Beast in the Fox X-Men franchise before <u>making his MCU debut via The Marvels&#8217; post-credits scene<\/u>. Stewart played Charles Xavier\/Professor X in the X-Men films before appearing briefly in the MCU via Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as a member of the Illuminati. McKellen, who played Magneto, has yet to appear in the MCU. Neither has Cumming, who played Nightcrawler, Romijn, who played Mystique, nor Marsden. It begs the question: <u>is Avengers: Doomsday secretly an Avengers vs. X-Men movie?<\/u><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Image credit: Michael Loccisano\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Tom Phillips is IGN&#8217;s News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky <\/em>@tomphillipseg.bsky.social<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/jean-grey-actress-famke-janssen-will-return-in-avengers-doomsday-x-men-writer-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel&#8217;s veteran X-Men writer Chris Claremont has said that Famke Janssen will be back as Jean Grey in Avengers: Doomsday \u2014 despite previous claims by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,12890,520,12891,15908,15907,15909,15906,2257,534,2937],"class_list":["post-27972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-actress","tag-avengers","tag-claims","tag-doomsday","tag-famke","tag-grey","tag-janssen","tag-jean","tag-return","tag-writer","tag-xmen","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}