Avengers: Doomsday is reportedly moving on from its 2nd Unit Director who has worked on a variety of high-profile comic book movies in the past.
Why was Avengers: Doomsday’s 2nd Unit Director fired?
According to a new report from Daniel Richtman (also known as DanielRPK on social media), 2nd Unit Director Robert Alonzo was let go from his work on Doomsday recently. As for why, the reason cited by Richtman is “dissatisfaction with his work.”
Alonzo has previously worked on a number of high-profile comic book movies, including Deadpool, The Batman, and Captain America: Brave New World. According to fellow insider MyTimeToShine, he will be replaced by James Young, who worked with The Russos on both Avengers: Endgame and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Traditionally, 2nd unit teams on films are those who come in and film sequences outside of the “main” unit of production.
These can include things like action sequences, pick-up shots, and any other scenes that might not require the principal actors to be involved.
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The cast for the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday, even without Howard, is going to be massive. So far, several major stars from the MCU have been confirmed to be in the movie, including Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby’s Invisible Woman/Sue Storm, Anthony Mackie’s Captain America, Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier, Letitia Wright’s Shuri/Black Panther, and Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man.
More names for the upcoming movie include Wyatt Russell’s U.S. Agent/John Walker, Tenoch Huerta’s Namor, Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s The Thing/Ben Grimm, Simu Liu’s Shang-Chi, Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, Kelsey Grammer’s Dr. Hank McCoy/Beast, Lewis Pullman’s Bob/Sentry, Danny Ramirez’s Joaquin Torres/Falcon, Joseph Quinn’s Johnny Storm/Human Torch, David Harbour’s Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian, Winston Duke‘s M’Baku, Hannah John-Kamen‘s Ava Starr/Ghost, and Tom Hiddleston‘s Loki.
Several X-Men characters are also coming back for the upcoming movie, including Patrick Stewart‘s Charles Xavier, Ian McKellen‘s Magneto, Alan Cumming‘s Nightcrawler, Rebecca Romijn‘s Mystique, James Marsden‘s Cyclops, and Channing Tatum‘s Gambit.
