Doc Brown from Back to the Future "confirms" The Avengers 26 will arrive in 2077. Christopher Lloyd first played eccentric mad scientist Doctor Emmett Brown in the classic film Back to the Future. To this day, Back to the Future is still regarded by many as a perfect film, though its status as such was recently the subject of much discussion when it came to a long-debated plot point regarding Marty McFly's (Michael J. Fox) parents. Lloyd stuck around for all three Back to the Future films and has also reprised his Doc Brown several times over the years.
Interestingly enough, Back to the Future already has something of a connection to the Avengers franchise. Last year's Avengers: Endgame featured a complex time travel plot, and one of the more humorous moments saw Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) questioning the validity of Back to the Future's time travel rules. Back to the Future's screenwriter Bob Gale even poked fun at this while in conversation with Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo. Of course, the Back to the Future reference really just shows how enduring the film is, which is why Lloyd's latest stint as Doc Brown comes as a welcome surprise.
As part of the world premiere for the game Surgeon Simulator 2 with Summer Game Fest, Lloyd stepped back into the shoes of Doc Brown in a new video, where he spoke to fans from the future. After introducing the game, Lloyd - or Doc Brown - signed off by saying he was about to attend to the premiere of Avengers 26: The Return of the Son of Thanos. Honestly, that doesn't sound too bad.
In the present day of 2020, fans are still waiting for Avengers 5. Granted, the fourth film in the franchise only debuted last year, but Avengers 5 was conspicuously absent when Kevin Feige announced the Phase 4 slate at San Diego Comic-Con last year. Feige explained this was because Phase 4 is all about new beginnings, and that he already knows what the team roster will look like whenever Avengers 5 does come out.
For now, though, Marvel hasn't even gotten to begin Phase 4. Black Widow, the first film on the calendar, was delayed from May of this year to November because of the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, all the other Phase 4 films were shuffled around. Additionally, Marvel was unable to complete production on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, thus delaying its arrival as well. In short, Marvel fans might be wishing they had the DeLorean from Back to the Future in order to jump ahead to the next big MCU project.
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