Nicolas Cage compared Marvel movies to costly wrestling shows at Fan Expo Dallas owing to endless sequels, reboots and rematches. The Oscar winner, in a strong recent comeback, said affectionately that many gifted actors over fifty wear costumes for fight-centered stories.

He skipped the Marvel universe but appeared in Ghost Rider, the one-season Amazon show Spider-Noir, and was cast as Superman for Tim Burton’s 1990s unmade Superman Lives, featured in a 2015 documentary.

Upcoming Avengers Doomsday seeks to refresh the series seven years after 2019 Endgame. Alan Cumming, original X-Men Nightcrawler, told Variety he did not grasp the plot, lacked a full script, and during a backlot robot scene asked only where to point so he could run.