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Avengers: Doomsday actress Rebecca Romijn recently provided a possibly discouraging update on the upcoming Christmas blockbuster. The actress sat down for an interview with her Star Trek: Strange New Worlds co-stars at The Hollywood Reporter’s San Diego Comic-Con suite. In that panel, the conversation shifted to the actress's iconic Marvel role of the shapeshifter mutant Mystique.
Romijn, who is returning to her mutant role after 20 years, spoke about returning to the Marvel Universe and acting alongside her co-stars from the X-Men film franchise. But it is her comments about the Avengers: Doomsday script that have disappointed the internet fan circles.
Rebecca Romijn shares an update on Avengers: Doomsday production.
As mentioned before, the actress and her co-stars were at THR’s San Diego Comic-Con suite, and the reporter asked Rebecca Romijn whether she had wrapped up her portion of Avengers: Doomsday, to which the actress responded:
“[I’m] not quite sure. The script hasn’t — they haven’t finished writing it. It’s been very, very fun, and we don’t know yet. They keep everything very close to the vest themselves in an effort to keep everything under wraps.”
After hearing that, she is doubtful whether the script for the upcoming Avengers movie is complete. The reporter asked the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds actress if she had read the complete script for Doomsday. To this, Romijn neither confirmed nor denied that she read the script in its entirety. Nor did she reveal the identity of the actors she filmed her scenes.
All she teased was that shooting scenes for Avengers: Doomsday with her old X-Men co-stars, as well as some new MCU actors, was a surreal experience:
“It was very surreal to be with my old cast as well as a new cast. I had crazy dreams while I was there for a large chunk of shooting. Like, really kind of regressive dreams. It was very strange, my brain was really trying to organize. Like, wow, this is a character I played 25 years ago, 20 years ago. Yeah, [it was] very surreal.”
Then the actress also went on to discuss what she felt about revisiting her fan-favorite mutant role of Mystique nearly two decades after 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand:
“Oh, I know her very well. I went back in with full ownership of her. It was very nice to go back and play that character, ‘cause I had imposter syndrome in the very beginning. I thought, maybe at the very beginning, I was just cast because I happened to be the model who was available to play Mystique at that moment. I mean, I auditioned and I got the role, because when you’re very young, you’re like, Do I deserve to be here? And I did not have that going back this time. It was a very different experience.”
While Rebecca Romijn's comments have some fans hopeful, her comments about the Doomsday script still being written have some fans worried.
Last week, Kevin Feige addressed the "Marvel method" of working on scripts while shooting:
Romijn's comments about the Avengers: Doomsday script still being written echo Marvel boss Kevin Feige's recent comments last Sunday, July 20, 2025. Feige was asked about the difference between the MCU and DCU's approach to greenlighting projects. For the uninitiated, James Gunn has insisted that no DCU project would be officially green-lit without a complete script. This rule applies to announced projects as well.
However, this isn't how Marvel works currently or how it functioned in the past. Feige justified the Marvel method of working on the script while the project is under production, saying:
“We’ve never started a movie without a full script and I have never been satisfied with a script that we’ve had. I’ve never been satisfied with a movie we’ve released.”
Defending the process of “plussing” (polishing) the script at every step, the Marvel boss continued:
“Actors, both the ones that are playing these characters for the first or second time and the characters playing them for the 10th or 12th time, are the best in the world at it and know these characters so well. If they have an idea, you want to listen to it and you want to adjust to it and you want to improve it. I wouldn’t want to change that.”
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