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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
John Bleasdale

Ian McKellen says he imagined destroying Mar-a-Lago for new Avengers movie

Sir Ian McKellen at the Cinema in Piazza festival in Rome
Sir Ian McKellen at the Cinema in Piazza festival in Rome on 14 June. Photograph: Emanuele Manco/Fondazione Piccolo America

On Sunday night at an open-air cinema in Rome, Sir Ian McKellen reenacted for a crowd of 2,000 film fans a moment from upcoming superhero film Avengers: Doomsday.

The film, which is released in December, sees a return for the X-Men played by McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The MCU’s 39th feature, it is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, and intended as a sequel to their 2019 film Avengers: Endgame, which made $2.8bn and is the second highest-grossing film of all time.

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