Avengers: Doomsday Set Photos Suggest Unexpected Return of a Defenders Character, as Marvel Pays King Charles Millions for Windsor Location Shoot

Marvel is reportedly paying King Charles "millions" to sprout Avengers: Doomsday connected the grounds of UK royal residence Windsor Castle — wherever the latest acceptable photos suggest the instrumentality of different astonishment Marvel character.

Construction enactment has begun wrong Windsor's parkland connected respective Avengers: Doomsday sets, including 1 named arsenic "Annie Reynolds' House" successful readying support documents submitted to a section council. Annie is the parent of Thunderbolts*/New Avengers' Bob Reynolds, suggesting we'll spot much puerility flashbacks to this location, revealing much of Sentry/The Void's childhood.

Now, The Irish Sun reports that a 2nd acceptable is named "Luke Cage's House" — a sanction Marvel fans haven't heard successful a bully fewer years. The bulletproof Harlem leader was past seen successful 2018, during the 2nd (and final) play of his Netflix TV bid that shared a beingness with Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Iron Fist. Cage crossed implicit with those different shows for team-up bid The Defenders, a small-screen mentation of The Avengers, earlier Netflix cancelled each of its Marvel line-up erstwhile rival streaming work Disney+ was announced.

Marvel is known for its secrecy, with productions typically listed nether codenames and cardinal scenes (such arsenic Avengers Endgame's funeral) changeable with adjacent the actors progressive sometimes unaware of what is going on. And yet portion this could inactive beryllium immoderate benignant of elaborate decoy, fans are trying to enactment retired what's going on, and wherefore Luke Cage mightiness beryllium returning.

Photos of the "Luke Cage's House" determination amusement a classical rural-style U.S. location painted mustard yellow. While the mounting does not look to beryllium Harlem, fans person pointed to the colour arsenic being the aforesaid shadiness associated with the quality during his Netflix run.

In the past fewer years, Marvel has begun reintegrating The Defenders backmost into the MCU, via impermanent appearances from Charlie Cox arsenic Daredevil successful assorted projects earlier the motorboat of Disney+ reboot Daredevil: Born Again, and the reappearance of Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) successful the show's adjacent season. Daredevil spin-off quality The Punisher is besides getting a TV special, aft which helium volition past reportedly look other Tom Holland successful Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

The nonstop magnitude paid to King Charles successful bid to usage Windsor's grounds is unclear, though it is estimated to beryllium successful the millions. Windsor's authoritative onshore proprietor — Crown Estates — often uses wealth from movie productions to assistance wage for wage for the upkeep of its land, though besides pays the King a 4th of its profits each year.

Could Charles himself marque a cameo? Sadly, it seems unlikely. The King is understood to beryllium holidaying successful Scotland astatine Balmoral successful aboriginal August, erstwhile the sets are owed to beryllium used.

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